Mapping Children on the Move within Africa status. Following litigation, the children were eventually allowed to register.399 Box 8 - Law, data and information: Experience of Algeria in promoting access to Education for Children on the Move Algerian law provides for the right of migrant children registered in camps and reception centres to have access to free public-school education as well as free health care. Since 2015 a partnership between the ministry of education and NGOs has contributed to removing all restrictions that have so far hampered the schooling of migrant children with an ‘irregular’ status (i.e. certificate of permanent address, birth certificates, etc.) and has helped close the information gap. Many migrants were for instance not aware of the right of their children to schooling. Practically, however, children are faced with the challenge of learning classical Arabic – the language used in public schools. “I don’t speak Arabic. I cannot help my daughter. So she does her homework alone and she manages. She now speaks a bit of Arabic”, says Liberian Bintou Toure, a mother of an 8-year old who was schooled in Liberia before arriving to Algeria . Some parents, contacted by Medecin du Monde, also show some reluctance to send their children to school. They mention several reasons including discrimination and the potential that they may be moving to another area in the course of the year. “At home we speak French. I want her to speak French” said a 33-years old Congolese father. Other parents send their children to private school where English and especially French are primary languages. Leroy, also a Liberian migrant, registered his son, Onesiums, in a private school He said: “He has nothing to do at home. He should go to school…I try to help him to learn at home. He knows the alphabet… but in English! The difficulty is language. When he’s done with his home-work, I take him to meet other period in our community who speak Arabic”. The costs are however very high, which often result in parents pulling out of school either for a short or long period. At school, children are also subjected to racial slur. “It was difficult in the beginning. Everyone called me kahlouch [derogatory word for black]. But now it is much better. I am accepted and I have three Algerian friends”, said Ely, a 10-year old Congolese refugee. Several local NGOs, in partnership with UNHCR, have stepped in to provide some support to children, including by raising resources for school children in private schools. A more structural solution – e.g. language courses – is however yet to be found. 5.4 Child Labour Children on the move are in certain instances subjected to forced labour. Refugee children are at times subjected to worst forms of child labour, including hazardous work.400 South Sudanese and Sudanese refugee children are subjected to different types of labour: boys (cattle herding) and girls (domestic labour).401 Separated and unaccompanied children face a higher risk of exploitation. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, unaccompanied migrant children are subjected to labour exploitation. There is an estimated 40,000 children working in mines in southern Democratic Republic of Congo.402 399 400 401 402 Mail & Guardian. Refugee Children win right to learn. 4 July 2014. Last accessed: 17 June 2018. https://mg.co.za/article/2014-07-04-refugee-children-win-right-to-learn Updated Regional Framework for the Protection of South Sudanese and Sudanese Refugee Children: Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda 2015-2017 p 3. As above. Progress Report of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Global Issue of Unaccompanied migrant children and adolescents and human rights A/HRC/33/53 16 August 2016 para 62. 73