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Click to expand Image Rohingya refugees collect boxes of food aid at a distribution point in the Kutupalong camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 14, 2018. 2018 Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images On Thursday, the United Nations World Food Programme dealt Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh a new round of deep cuts in food rations, from US$12 per month several months ago to just $8 a month, building pressure to return to dangerous conditions in Myanmar. UN special rapporteurs warned that the cuts will have the "devastatingly predictable" consequence of "spiking rates of acute malnutrition, infant mortality, violence, and even death." Some refugees, they said, might be compelled to "risk their lives at sea, [rather] than to face hunger and even death in the camps." These food ration cuts, along with escalating restrictive measures imposed by Bangladesh authorities and violence in the squalid, overcrowded refugee camps, are increasing pressure on the refuge
The United Nations World Food Programme's cuts in food rations for Rohingyas in Bangladesh – from $12 per month several months ago to just $8 a month – could build pressure to return to dangerous conditions in Myanmar. In an article for the Human Rights Watch, Bill Frelick, director of the Human Rights Watch's Refugee and Migrant Rights Division, also said UN special
On Thursday, the United Nations World Food Programme dealt Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh a new round of deep cuts in food rations, from US$12 per month several months ago to just $8 a month, building pressure to return to dangerous conditions in Myanmar.