As Rohingya women struggle to access even the very basics such as food and water in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps, a flourishing sex trade offers cash in times of desperation. UN agencies say they have no figures on the numbers of sex workers in the camps to make public. Sex workers share common traits: poverty, abusive family members and lack of funds make them vulnerable enough to be trafficked into the camp’s sex industry. I pretend to be visiting relatives or taking a shift at the market.”The Rohingya women meet men of all backgrounds – from university students to local politicians. But the four Rohingya women who agreed to speak to the Thomson Reuters Foundation were largely unaware of such services.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 24, 2017 06:56 UTC