Umme Tamima is a humanitarian worker in Bangladesh, began her journey by volunteering with Oxfam in livelihood programs during the Rohingya crisis of 2017. Over three years, she worked with Rohingya women, empowering them and advocating for their rights. Transitioning to the World Food Programme (WFP), she now contributes her expertise to the accountability team, ensuring efficient aid distribution. Previously, she served in protection roles with ActionAid Bangladesh.
A combination of ingrained tradition and endemic poverty have stymied NGO campaigns to discourage the practice of payments for marriage in the refugee camps despite arguments that the tradition is not part of Islam.
Since the latest iteration of the genocide of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar military began in August 2017, the Rohingya have faced state-sponsored discrimination, violence, and threats to their ethnic identity.
