Almost 150,000 children who have been displaced by the conflict in Mali do not have a birth certificate and are at risk of being excluded and deprived of their rights because they cannot prove their identity, the Norwegian Council for Refugees announced today Refugees (NRC). “Thousands of children excluded from society when they should be on school desks,” said Maclean Natugasa, NRC director for Mali. Those 148,000 children are part of the 422,620 people displaced by the war in Mali, according to August data from a joint monitoring tool of UN and the authorities of Mali. The children lost their birth certificates when they were forced to leave their homes in a hurry, the NRC explained.
Source: News Beast
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