Rohingya Women Coerced To Use Contraception In Bangladesh Refugee Camps

The New Humanitarian reported that refugee women in at least 12 of the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar said they were forced or pressured to use IUDs, as health workers or camp authorities told the women they wouldn’t be able to register their newborn children unless they were using an IUD. While the scale of coerced contraception in the camps is unclear, several sources said it was widespread. A 2019 report by the Women’s Refugee Commission found that Rohingya women were apprehensive about IUDs because they feared being unable to have them removed if they returned to Myanmar.