Rohingya refugee Umme Khair, who gave money to a community leader to travel to Malaysia to her husband, interacts with her spouse via video call at a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh on October 13. (AFP)
Rohingya refugee Umme Khair, who gave money to a community leader to travel to Malaysia to her husband, interacts with her spouse via video call at a makeshift shelter in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh on October 13. (AFP)

‘What choice do we have?’: Rohingya women face odyssey of misery

As conditions deteriorate in increasingly overcrowded Bangladeshi refugee camps, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters to Rohingya men thousands of kilometres away.

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