00:00Basic tasks like going to the toilet in the morning require a lot of preparation,
00:07especially for younger women like 18-year-old Bushra.
00:11Wearing a veil is a must and water has to be taken from the hut.
00:15Bushra lives in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district.
00:22The nearest toilet she has access to is over 100 meters away from her hut.
00:28Because of the fact that we were opening up the toilet once again,
00:34we had a shortage of people off by saying,
00:38and we would not be able to put up the toilet.
00:42When we lose our family, we would not try to do something like that,
00:48or if we stay at the hospital, we would drive the hospital.
00:52It would be easy to do.
00:54Bangladesh has been taking in Rohingya refugees in large numbers since a 2017 army crackdown forced hundreds of thousands of them across the border.
01:16However, several attempts in the past years to repatriate them have failed.
01:20Around 1.1 million Rohingya refugees live in 33 camps in Cox's Bazar. 51.5% of the refugees are women.
01:32While official statistics show that 49,000 toilets are available in the camps, female refugees say otherwise.
01:39They told DW that camps lack sufficient female toilets and many remain broken for an extended period.
01:46Sharmine Sultana is well aware of the gravity of the sanitation problem women face here.
01:54The camps remain pitch dark at night and many women don't go out after dusk to avoid sexual harassment.
02:01Even during the daytime, they look for women-only toilets.
02:05Sultana's organization BRAC and some other NGOs have been setting up women's hygiene centers where running water is available.
02:12The lesser-known initiative, which started a few years ago, provides relief for some women in the camps.
02:18Many Rohingya women in the camps say they didn't realize such an option even existed.
02:46According to Sultana, there are only 35 women's hygiene centers in the camps.
03:02While there is a need for more centers, shortage of space and funding have limited its expansion.
03:09The lack of proper toilets causes women discomfort, both physically and psychologically.
03:14There are only 35 women outside in the camps.
03:16There are only 35 women outside the camps.
03:19Anybody from here who else was a student.
03:22There are only 77 women outside of Acts.
03:26The area, inед
03:27with잖아요, the young people hurt us.
03:28These young people, in the camps and the camps pipeline and the campsites fire.
03:33These communities who haven'tılmed theiricz cuisine or downstream,
03:35supermarkets have longladesh of land and people's Lieutenant Stories.
03:37The centre audience of simultaneous people isn't quite welcome now.
03:39Maybeapproved its civilists don't to think about the social media?
03:39doctors in the camps often treat women who suffer from poor hygiene and sanitation practices
04:09the lack of toilets is not the only sanitation issue refugee women face here in cox's bazaar
04:34getting disposable sanitary pads has become even more difficult young women like bushra need to buy
04:41pads they are no longer offered for free due to aid cuts and they are becoming scarce in the camps
04:47on another paddy about the good fair to ramura there you know use good tomorrow or there are
04:55to washroom night washroom night at a line do you use graph or it taratun in the fall of the
05:00day-to-day home jagged in jade bad-de-dine or it would do a zayaran rathun petting anna for it
05:06aranteo besey shama shakala kya hateras thama the manish besey arathu zaiti besey omane kultu
05:12zaiti besey muskilo jagun sultana says women's hygiene centers try to alleviate some of those
05:19problems ekhanai actor corner kora hache jekhanai narira tader menstruationer shamai specificali
05:27eche jere usable menstrual pad bulo tarababa hakare shakiloki clean korte pare khubshah hojee ekhanai narira
05:34jetish hatshandi tader nijer itchate aasche shesomai actor corner rakhache jekhanai narira nijer
05:41der moto moshe tader nijer pari bari shukdukher kotha bote pare mental health shampar kishar korte pare
05:47rohingya women are calling for lights and running water inside all the toilets in the camps but it's
05:54unlikely that their demands will be listened to as bangladesh is more focused on their repatriation to
05:59myanmar
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