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Bangladesh: Jannat with her family. Jannat lives in Nayapara, in the Cox's Bazar area which hosts over 1.7 million Rohingya refugees. Her community was severely impacted by water scarcity until Oxfam partner organisation NGO Forum installed a Mini Piped Water Distribution Network, enabling community members to access safe, clean water whenever they need. Photo: Fabeha Monir/Oxfam

What is the Rohingya crisis?

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Who are the Rohingya people? The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group from Myanmar, where they have faced decades of persecution and have been denied citizenship. Since the late 1970s, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled their homes, crossing the border to Bangladesh or travelling by sea to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. There […] Read more »
Rohingya refugee Asia Bibi* with solar powered lamp provided by Oxfam, in her shelter in the camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

How your donation is helping Rohingya refugees rebuild

Thanks to you, Oxfam teams are on the ground in Bangladesh, working to improve living conditions for the many Rohingya families seeking refuge in makeshift camps there. Read more »
Rohinya refugee crisis

Rohingya refugee mothers tell their story

More than half of the 626,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are women and girls. There are 120,000 pregnant women and new mothers. Shompa*, Marjina* and Kahinoor* are three such women. These are their stories. Read more »
Rohingya refugees

We must not fail the Rohingya again

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Oxfam International Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima, calls on the international community to plug the funding aid gap, and international leaders to act to prevent another eruption of the Rohingya crisis. Read more »