geneva estimate 10 million people worldwide stateless include three million officially status deprive identity right often job unite nations refugee agency say friday muslim rohingyas buddhist-majority myanmar form world big stateless minority 600,000 flee violence repression since late august take refuge bangladesh say report home stateless minorities search citizenship u.n. high commissioner refugees unhcr call governments end discriminatory practice 2024. live world without nationality without identity without documentation without right entitlements take grant ... job education know child belong somewhere carol batchelor director unhcr division international protection tell news brief unhcr spokesman adrian edwards say 3.2 million people 75 countries know stateless register count governments estimate total 10 million include large populations countries include indonesia ivory coast lebanon democratic republic congo say governments give nationality people bear territory would otherwise stateless facilitate naturalization longtime stateless residents unhcr say stateless group many live generations homelands include many syrian kurds karana madagascar roma former yugoslav republic macedonia pemba kenya report say need ensure deliberate arbitrary exclusion deprivation nationality batchelor say ask whether rohingya fell category deliberately exclude deprive nationality batchelor say look result ... myanmar nationality law outline categories persons consider citizens myanmar rohingya list 30,000 stateless people thailand acquire nationality since 2012 makonde community 4,000 become kenya 43rd officially recognize tribe last year report say see reductions thailand central asia russia western africa number nearly substantial would need us end statelessness 2024 say melanie khanna head unhcr statelessness section world 's stateless deserve nationality unhcr