Amina holds her newborn baby in her arms. Small, fragile, defenseless. Completely dependent on her. She is this baby’s whole world—the only person who truly cares. But she won’t be given food for her child unless she agrees to forced contraception.

“Your child will not be registered in the camp and will not receive food unless you agree to the procedure,” Amina was told.

Amina belongs to the Rohingya—an ethnic minority that is among the most brutally persecuted people in the world. They’ve been traumatized by rapes, violence, and brutal killing of loved ones by merciless attackers. They fled hell in search of safety in Bangladesh, but safety never came. Dignity never came. Animals are still treated better than they are. Today, they are blackmailed with the food their newborns need to survive.

“I told the nurse I preferred a contraceptive injection, because I’d had it before and felt fine,” one woman recalls. “But she didn’t listen to me. Instead, they inserted an IUD against her will. It hurts, but worse than the pain is the feeling of once again being reduced to an object in someone else’s hands.

In the name of birth control, the dignity of women—already scarred by unimaginable suffering—is being violated. Our nutritional support means Rohingya families no longer have to choose between their dignity and their hunger. Gift a meal that comes with no conditions.