Nearly 46,000 Rohingya in Malaysia have been registered as refugees by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, and there are an estimated 40,000 more whose status has yet to be assessed.

Rohingya child bride, B, age 14, sits on a bed in an apartment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 4, 2023. B came to Malaysia in 2023 to marry an older man.

The path to joining the bloc is long and complex, requiring sustained political will and a resolution to the ongoing Rohingya ...

Rohingya child bride, F, age 16, walks down the hallway of an apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 5, 2023. The complex houses several underage Rohingya girls who are married to ...

Rohingya child bride, T, age 16, holds her son in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 5, 2023. T left Bangladesh for Malaysia in 2022 for an arranged marriage with an older man.

Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who ...