Editing Compulsory sterilization (section)

==== Rohingya ====
Bangladesh is planning to introduce a sterilization program in its overcrowded [[Rohingya people|Rohingya]] refugee camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space, after efforts to encourage birth control failed. Since 25 August 2017, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from [[Rakhine State|Rakhine state]], [[Myanmar]] to neighboring Bangladesh, which is a Muslim majority country, following a military crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine. Sabura, a Rohingya mother of seven, said her husband believed the couple could support a large family.<ref name=AFP-Rohingya/>

<blockquote>I spoke to my husband about birth control measures. But he is not convinced. He was given two condoms but he did not use them. My husband said we need more children as we have land and property (in Rakhine). We don't have to worry to feed them.</blockquote>

District family planning authorities have managed to distribute just 549 packets of condoms among the refugees, amid reports they are reluctant to use them. They have asked the government to approve a plan to provide vasectomies for men and tubectomies (tubal ligation) for women in the camps.<ref name=AFP-Rohingya/>

One volunteer, Farhana Sultana, said the women she spoke to believed birth control was a sin and others saw it as against the tenets of Islam.<ref name=AFP-Rohingya/>

Bangladeshi officials say about 20,000 Rohingya refugee women are pregnant and 600 have given birth since arriving in the country, but this may not be accurate as many births take place without formal medical help.<ref name=AFP-Rohingya/>

Every month 250 Bangladeshis undergo sterilization routinely under the government's sterilization program in the border district of [[Cox's Bazar District|Cox's Bazar]], where the Rohingya refugee Muslims have taken shelter.<ref name=AFP-Rohingya>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/28/bangladesh-to-offer-sterilisation-to-rohingya-in-refugee-camps|title=Bangladesh to offer sterilisation to Rohingya in refugee camps|agency=Agence France-Presse|date=2017-10-28|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-12|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171104150415/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/28/bangladesh-to-offer-sterilisation-to-rohingya-in-refugee-camps|archive-date=2017-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-sterilise-rohingya-muslims-population-burma-refugee-camps-a8026076.html|title=Bangladesh 'plans to offer to sterilise Rohingya Muslims' as refugee population grows|date=2017-10-29|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-11-12|language=en-GB|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113003155/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/bangladesh-sterilise-rohingya-muslims-population-burma-refugee-camps-a8026076.html|archive-date=2017-11-13}}</ref>