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  • Protesters hold signs denouncing changes to India’s citizenship laws during a demonstration in Guwahati.
    Protesters hold signs denouncing changes to India’s citizenship laws during a demonstration in Guwahati in December.
  • Protesters at Cotton University in Guwahati rally against changes to India’s citizenship law.
    Protesters at Cotton University in Guwahati rally against changes to India’s citizenship law.
  • Jamillah Nabunjo's companions cross from Ciudad Juárez into the US city of El Paso for processing by border officials.
    Jamillah Nabunjo's companions cross from Ciudad Juárez into the US city of El Paso for processing by border officials.
  • Skilled labour is in short supply throughout rural Nepal. This has also driven up reconstruction costs beyond what many rural Nepalis can afford.
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  • A MONUSCO armoured troop carrier on patrol in Beni.
    A MONUSCO armoured troop carrier on patrol in Beni.
  • Moiful Nissa fears she could be separated from her family and sent to a detention centre.
    Moiful Nissa lost her case at a foreigners tribunal in 2019. Now she fears she could be separated from her family and sent to a detention centre.
  • Debasmita Ghosh, director of the Human Rights Law Network in Guwahat.
    Debasmita Ghosh, director of the Human Rights Law Network in Guwahati, says most of the people facing foreigners tribunals don’t have the money to fight their cases.
  • Aman Wadud sits in his office in Guwahati, Assam.
    Aman Wadud sits in his office in Guwahati, Assam. The lawyer helps represents people left off the state’s citizenship registry.
  • Abhijit Sarma heads an advocacy group pushing for another citizenship count.
    Abhijit Sarma heads an advocacy group pushing for another citizenship count. He believes more than 4.1 million people in Assam are not rightful citizens: “We want the government to strip them of their voting rights,” he says.
  • Protesters in Guwahati carry torches during a rally against changes to India’s citizenship laws.
    Protesters in Guwahati carry torches during a rally against changes to India’s citizenship laws.
  • A detention centre under construction in Goalpara district is meant to hold 3,000 people.
    A detention centre under construction in Goalpara district is meant to hold 3,000 people. Many of the construction workers at the site are minority Muslims.
  • Shah Ali sits on some steps.
    Shah Ali was held at a detention centre for three years before he was released in December.
  • Asia is home to extremes in elevation and the world's most active seismic and volcanic activity
  • Carlos Guedez pictured in Cucuta bus terminal.
    Carlos Guedez, 34, has had many insults hurled at him since living in Cucuta, the main Colombia Venezuela border town. He helps people with their luggage at the bus terminal in exchange for spare change.
  • Volunteers sort through donated clothes at the San Juan de Dios shelter in Quito.
    The San Juan de Dios shelter in Quito provides daily meals and clothes for those most in need. Volunteers are pictured sorting through donated clothes.
  • Omiera Palacios sells arepas, a traditional regional snack made from corn flour, at the entrance of one of the city’s main parks.
    Omiera Palacios, 45, was a pharmacist in Venezuela and now sells arepas, a traditional regional snack made from corn flour, at the entrance of one of the city’s main parks. She says she faces xenophobia on a daily basis.
  • Elder Rodriguez pictured here with two friends that he travelled to Ecuador with.
    Elder Rodriguez (middle) says he would be blamed for everything in Colombia for being Venezuelan. Now in Ecuador, he is pictured here with two friends that travelled with.
  • Adriana Aldana, 34, pictured with her three children.
    Adriana Aldana, 34, pictured with her three children aged 6, 8 and 14. She struggles to pay for the small room she shares with three children that costs $120 each month.
  • Recent killings by militias have increased anger at the UN mission, sparking protests that resulted in the deaths of several protestors in November.
    Recent killings by militias have increased anger at the UN mission, sparking protests that resulted in the deaths of several protestors in November.
  • A September email sent to UN staff in Geneva said system maintenance would require them to change passwords, without mentioning the cyber-attack.
    A September email sent to UN staff in Geneva said system maintenance would require them to change passwords, without mentioning the cyber-attack.
  • Posters about cyber security in the office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen in Amman, Jordan, 9 January 2020.
    Posters about cyber security in the office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen in Amman, Jordan, 9 January 2020.
  • The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 27 Jan 2020.
    The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, 27 Jan 2020.
  • The ruins of Beni town hall, which was destroyed by demonstrators back in November.
    The ruins of Beni town hall, which was destroyed by demonstrators back in November.

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