extremely low. Reasons for this state of affairs include the extreme poverty in which indigenous peoples generally live; lack of awareness of the significance, importance and benefits of birth registration and a birth certificate; reluctance to deal with, and general suspicion of, administrative authorities among indigenous peoples; language barriers sometimes; distance to the office of civil registration; and oftentimes a nomadic lifestyle of some indigenous communities. The Committee wishes to particularly stress the risk of becoming stateless for unregistered children of nomadic indigenous parents who frequently move across the borders of different countries. 69. The obligation to ensure universal and non-discriminatory birth registration of every child born within a State party‟s territory thus extends to taking all necessary legislative and administrative measures to give effect to the right of indigenous children to birth registration. States parties with indigenous populations must include explicit provisions on actions specifically targeting registration of indigenous children. Their implementation policies and programmes must include campaigns to raise awareness of indigenous populations about the importance and benefits of birth registration through outreach activities. States parties are also under the obligation to put in place birth registration mechanisms that are adapted to the lifestyle of indigenous communities such as mobile registration systems reaching them where they live, and the recruitment of staff who can effectively communicate with the peoples at risk of marginalization. (f) 70. Birth registration and children of imprisoned mothers Article 30 of the African Children‟s Charter imposes upon States parties to “undertake to provide special treatment to…mothers of infants and young children who have been accused or found guilty of infringing the penal law.” The Committee is aware that there are many infants and children living in prisons with their parent, most often their mother. Children whose parents are detained or imprisoned are an invisible and highly vulnerable group whose rights and welfare are affected at every 25