With no safe space to play or learn, children are left to wander the labyrinthine refugee camps, making them increasingly easy targets for kidnappers. As a result, scores of children as young as 10 are forced into backbreaking manual labor, and girls as young as 12 are forced into prostitution. Violations against children in the camps have risen sharply this year, according to UNICEF. Between January and mid-November, reported cases of abduction and kidnapping more than quadrupled over the same time period last year, to 560 children.
In a statement to The Associated Press, the State Department said the U.S. has provided more than $168 million to the Rohingya since the beginning of Trump’s term, although data from the U.N.’s financial tracking service show the U.S. contribution in 2025 is $156 million. Asked about the disparity, the State Department said the U.N.’s financial tracking service had not been recently updated and “generally does not show the latest information on all U.S. funding.”
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