Tania Rashid:

Cases like this are common throughout the Bangladeshi refugee camps. This woman is one of thousands who were sexually assaulted during a bloody military crackdown by the Myanmar military forces and armed vigilante groups last year. The U.N. says military leaders involved must face genocide charges.

These overcrowded refugee camps are among the largest in the world, where close to a million Rohingya refugees seek shelter. Rape as a weapon of war and persecution is not a foreign concept for the Rohingya. The Myanmar military has used sexual violence for decades.

Many are aware the women are victimized, but, in traditional Rohingya Muslim culture, rape is seen as bringing dishonor to households. Local health experts here say the survivors carry double the trauma, first from sexual assault in Myanmar, then in the camps, where they're isolated and excluded from society.

They even face further sexual assaults from locals in the area. According to a U.N. Security Council report in March, humanitarian organizations have provided services to more than 2,700 survivors of sexual violence in the camps.

The United Nations populations fund has set up women-friendly spaces to help survivors with psychosocial and medical support. But the reach has not been strong enough.

Those cases of rape are coming at alarming rates to medical facilities in the area, it's hard to trace the actual number of women that have been impregnated. Many are afraid to come forward, due to shame and rejection in the family. They turn to community healers and leaders instead.

Amy Garrett, who works as a midwife with Doctors Without Borders, has seen this firsthand.