Azimul Hasan, 10, a Rohingya refugee boy, serves diners at a roadside hotel at Jamtoli, close to Palong Khali camp, near Cox's Bazar. (Reuter photos)COX'S BAZAR/KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar are working punishing hours for paltry pay in Bangladesh, with some suffering beatings and sexual assault, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has found. The IOM's findings, based on discussions with groups of long-term residents and recent arrivals, and in separate interviews by reporters, show life in the refugee camps is hardly better than it is in Myanmar for Rohingya children. The IOM said children were targeted by labour agents and encouraged to work by their destitute parents amid widespread malnutrition and poverty in the camps. A 12 year old Rohingya girl who worked as domestic help in a house in Bangladesh, looks out the window at an undisclosed location near Cox's Bazar.

Source: Bangkok Post November 13, 2017 18:11 UTC