In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Galjeel were stripped of their Kenyan identity documents and evicted from their land. All forms of identification were taken from this 43-year-old woman as part of a screening process to identify migrants from Somalia. Now her children have no identification either. #

Hundreds of thousands of Dalits who live in the Terai area of southern Nepal are without Nepalese nationality and live a hand-to-mouth existence. A group of Dalits in the town of Lahan sit in a tractor-pulled wagon after spending the day doing odd jobs. #

This 44-year-old woman is a Lebanese national and gave birth to her daughter in 2005. However, because her husband is stateless and Lebanese law does not permit a woman to pass on citizenship to her children, her daughter and son are both stateless. #

After violence erupted in June 2012, tens of thousands of Rohingya were forced into camps for internally displaced people. Some 2,200 people fled to the Thet Kay PyinYwar Ma mosque and madrassa in Myanmar after their homes were destroyed. #

Tens of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent are stateless in the Dominican Republic. Julien, 92, cuts the hair of a three-year-old boy born in the Dominican Republic but denied a birth certificate because his parents are of Haitian descent. #

A 15-year-old child holds a folder of papers that contains the names and dates of birth for himself and his six brothers and sisters. The only record of their birthdays is this piece of paper, hand-written by his father, who passed away in 2012. He was born to a Roma family that fled from Kosovo to Serbia in 1999. Due to a number of reasons, many Roma children are unable to be properly registered at birth. #

Three men from the Bidoon community sit at a diwaniya, or “reception area.” It is estimated that some 108,000 people from the Bidoon community in Kuwait are stateless. Translated from Arabic, Bidoon means “without.” Though they have lived in Kuwait for generations, they are denied any number of social, civil, economic, and political rights. All three of the men pictured are unemployed because most Kuwaiti companies are prevented from legally hiring Bidoon. #

The Rohingya are a Muslim minority from Myanmar. Over 140,000 Rohingya in Myanmar were displaced from their homes during ethnic violence in 2012 and have been forced to live in internment camps. #

The husband of this 20-year-old Urdu-speaking girl left her to marry a local woman in the hope of obtaining Bangladeshi citizenship. She is going blind and has no family to help support her and her baby. She makes paper bags for money. #

A peaceful demonstration in late 2012 by the Bidoon community in Kuwait demanding their right to Kuwaiti citizenship was met with a violent crackdown by the authorities. #

Crimean Tatars face much discrimination and have been routinely blocked from fully integrating into Crimean society. The evening of February 10, 2009, some 220 headstones were destroyed in a Crimean Tatar graveyard. #

Children with Haitian ancestry stand outside their school and recite the Dominican Pledge of Allegiance as the Dominican flag is raised before classes. Most will not be permitted to go to school past the eigth grade because they have been denied documentation based on their Haitian ethnicity. #

An ailing 75-year-old Urdu-speaking man sits alone in his room in Pat Godam Camp in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. He has no family left and does not have the resources to obtain health care. In Bangladesh, the Urdu-speaking Bihari community was stateless for more than 35 years. After Bangladesh's independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of Bihari were moved into ghetto-like settlements in cities all over Bangladesh. In 2008, the Bihari were granted Bangladesh nationality but most are still denied passports, land ownership, employment in government, military, and trade-licenses. #

Rohingya in the internally displaced camps worry that an entire generation of Rohingya children will not have access to schools and an education. Most children, like 7-year-old Nur, who hauls mud at a worksite near one of the camps, have never been to school. #

Several thousand people from the Rakhine Buddhist community in Myanmar demonstrate through the streets of Sittwe in an anti-Rohingya and anti-UN protest. The demonstrators were protesting against the existence of a group called the “Rohingya” and against UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's use of the word “Rohingya” in a recent speech. #