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No place to call home

Some 15 million people worldwide are stateless and without rights, but the UN hopes to change that BY EMMA BATHA, ALERTNET VIA REUTERS Rejected by the countries they call home and denied the most basic of rights, stateless people live in a shadowy limbo - in the words of one such person, like being "between the earth and the sky".Up to 15 million people are stateless, not recognized as nationals by any country. They are some of the most invisible people on the planet - an anonymity the United Nations hopes to lift  A Rohingya boy bathes in a common bath place in a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh. In 1982, Myanmar passed a law that made it impossible for Rohingyas to get full citizenship. Many fled to Bangladesh in 1991 and 1992 following a government crackdown. Today, an estimated 800,000 Rohingyas live in Myanmar, and up to 300,000 in Bangladesh. through an international campaign it launched Thursday to highlight their plight. "One of the big problem