Rohingya refugee women hold placards as they take part in a protest at the Kutupalong refugee camp to mark the one-year anniversary of their exodus in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2018. This is the bleak choice many Rohingya women, already scarred from fleeing violent persecution in Myanmar, are now facing. Ara has never met the man she married via phone call from the refugee camp but, after mounting pressure from relatives to seek him out, decided to leave. Absent groomsArranged marriages are part of Rohingya custom, but in the Bangladeshi refugee camps, families have little income and struggle to afford the traditional dowries required. Listless and alone, having swapped one refugee camp for another, Amerah has little hope for the future.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 16, 2020 05:48 UTC