Now in its eighth year, more than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees are registered in Bangladesh, of which 51% are children, exacerbating the country’s financial, social, security-related, and environmental resources.
The Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh is now in its eighth year, with 93,522 new refugees having crossed the border since the end of 2024. More than 1.1 million Rohingya refugees are now registered in Bangladesh, 51 per cent of which are children, residing in 33 formally designated camps in both the space-constrained, densely populated, and climate-vulnerable Ukhiya and Teknaf Upazilas within the Cox’s Bazar District, as well as on the island of Bhasan Char.
Refugees continue to face protection concerns, including gender-based violence, human trafficking, and child exploitation. Overcrowded camps limit access to clean water, sanitation, and medical care.
As of March 2025, the situation has further deteriorated due to significant funding shortages. The World Food Programme (WFP) announced a reduction in food rations for Rohingya refugees, decreasing monthly allocations from $12.50 to $6 per person starting April 1, 2025. This reduction raises concerns about increased hunger, malnutrition, and insecurity within the camps.
Children remain at risk due to water-borne disease outbreaks, malnutrition, inadequate health facilities, lack of educational opportunities for adolescents, increased insecurity, and heightened risks of sexual exploitation and Gender-Based Violence (GBV). In Q1 2025, 1,871 dengue cases were reported, along with up to 578,325 cases of Acute Watery Diarrhoea nationwide, and between 23 June 2024 and 1 March 2025, 581 cholera cases were reported in the Rohingya camps.
The first quarter of 2025 saw a total of 323 disaster events, both natural and human-made, including six landslides and 272 fire incidents across Cox’s Bazar and another 9 fire incidents in Bhasan Char. In 2024, Bangladesh experienced severe floods in July and August, displacing 700,000 people and heightening health risks. The country's geographic location and climate change make it susceptible to natural disasters.
Bangladesh has faced financial, social, security-related, and environmental burdens for this crisis, with the influx straining the country's resources, leading to humanitarian challenges and tensions affecting national development. The estimated total required cost for funding the humanitarian crisis in 2025 is 934.5 million USD, to reach 1.48 million people in need, 50.7 per cent of which are women and girls.
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. (Uniqlo’s parent company) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , jointly launched a project in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh to build the skills and capacities of 1,000 refugee women by 2025. Women are trained in sewing skills to produce reusable cloth sanitary napkins and other products which are much needed in their daily lives, as well as to provide them continuous livelihood opportunities.
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