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Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

A Kenyan mother, Esther, and her newborn son, Abudy, were living on the street in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

A Kenyan mother, Esther, and her newborn son, Abudy, were living on the street in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Why Children of Unmarried Mothers Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia

We pieced together the details, from Riyadh to Nairobi.

© Iman Al-Dabbagh for The New York Times

Esther, holding her 2-week-old newborn, Abudy, at the median strip where they lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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