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Julieta Simenya Nangulomba is one of several thousand Makonde people being issued identity papers and Kenyan citizenship after years of statelessness.

Rohingya refugees cross into Bangladesh from Myanmar at the Anjumanpara border crossing point.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a vital new US$5 million contribution from the Government of the People’s Republic of China to provide urgent food and nutrition assistance to internally displaced people in the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic (C.A.R.).

One of many makeshift memorials to the victims of Tuesday's bike path attack is seen on the corner of Chambers Street and West Side Highway, in New York, Nov 2, 2017.

Lamberto Zannier, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities visiting a kindergarten that is piloting a HCNM-supported project on bilingual education, Chișinău, 2 November 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will go to Myanmar and accompany President Donald Trump on his visit to Asia, the State Department said in a statement Thursday.

16th meeting of the representatives of media organizations from the Russian Federation and Ukraine, Vienna, 2 November 2017.

A new UNHCR report warns that discrimination, exclusion and persecution are stark realities for many of the world’s stateless minorities, and calls for immediate action to secure equal nationality rights for all.

Pictured here, Rohingya refugees including women and children cross from Myanmar into Bangladesh at Palong Khali in Cox’s Bazar district.

Wide view of the General Assembly meeting to consider the necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.