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Security Council debates regional organizations and global security.

Rahma, who was born in a public park, and her mother, Salma.

Born to Belarusian parents in 1945, Maria Gandrabura came to the Soviet Republic of Moldova in 1964 where she married a Moldovan. As she did not get the so called "compensation", a public grant for the poor, in 2014, she found out she needed to get an ID card from the Republic of Moldova, an independent state since 1991. Late in 2014, she was barred from voting and started to worry how she would pass her humble garden to her daughter without papers. Thanks to UNHCR-supported litigation, the lady won in an important court case and her statelessness was successfully prevented.

UN humanitarian chief Stephen O’Brien (3rd left) visits the city of Homs, Syria.

A young boy waits while his family is given humanitarian assistance in Lopez de Micay, Colombia.

Bernard, 50, is blind and lives now under a mango tree in the bush some 15 km east of Maridi after fleeing ethnic violence in his home town of Maridi. He told UNHCR staff that he ran for his life with the help of his wife and son.

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien, on visit to Yemen, talks with an elderly man who said his home was burnt to the ground during fighting.

Philomène, a CAR refugee and a former school director, in the field where she works, near Meiganga, eastern Cameroon.

Hovig Ashjian, a refugee from Aleppo, Syria, arrived with his family in Armenia in the autumn of 2012. Thanks to a rental subsidy scheme, they are able to afford a small apartment in Yerevan.

To reap a demographic dividend, countries must empower, educate and employ their young people.