Nearly a million people of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar have fled to Bangladesh since August - and are now living in refugee camps in the port town of Cox's Bazar - to escape what the UN has deemed 'ethnic cleansing' in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, according to this article from the Guardian. More than half of those refugees, says UNICEF, are children, about 40,000 of whom, says the article, have lost at least one parent. Efforts are underway to reunite families, but the system is stressed with the number of separated families looking to find each other. Furthermore, the situation of so many separated and undocumented children has created high risk for trafficking. "Organizations such as Save the Children are working on foster care programs and have placed children with volunteer guardians," says the article.
