4 79 - #R=, UNREPRESENTED m N ATIONS & PEOPLES u....Npo @ ORGANIZATION @ 4 - , unpo.org 0 Honorable Chair, Experts The Convention and Delegates, on the Riglits of the Child states "the child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall hasietlie right froin birth to a name,[andl the right to acquire a nationality". However today in Mauritania, regularly fatlier Haratin children denied identity born with absent fathers cards as the administration term, most notably parents by affecting or guardians tlreir parents' education, light birth certificates. preventing depriving minority obtaining tlie required children directed toward safe for all. you. the child's Without meclianisms minority certificate, tbese documents, further recommends UNPO a birth certificate the Forum representatives children them - are if there is no life on the long in Mauritania, a copy of tlieir national a child's identity the child cannot be enrolled card and in public schools examinati into account life. attention to existing the difficulties the creation legal barriers they experience or mainstreaming whose parents or guardians so as not to penalise should in scliool to give specific also encourages seizes tliis opportunity affect an individual's along in their academic papers, taking for minority documentation, note, '[JNP0 birth that will To enroll be unable to sit in national of identity elements. to obtain the appropriate On a different their access to education. them from moving of those issues, UNPO ,school enroluxent but Ieads to consequences must produce and, even if they manage, will Thank wi!l refuse to provide affecting to declare them. This is not only an issue in itself, ffi - an issue disproportionately in of temporary have as yet been unable them early on in life. to stress tliat unfounded not be tolerated accusations in this space, which of terroristn is supposed to be