Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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45.12 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Consider acceding to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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156.298 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Establish a dedicated statelessness determination procedure to identify stateless persons within the territory and facilitate their protection, particularly regarding stateless children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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156.297 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Further strengthen efforts in helping refugees, asylum seekers and, most importantly, stateless persons, especially children | 4 - General action | Supported |
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110.168 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend legislation to ensure universal, free and accessible birth registration, and adequate safeguards against statelessness for children born in the territory, as well as safeguards in the process of renunciation and change of citizenship | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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115.221 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Adopt legal and administrative provisions for the issuance of birth certificates free of charge, as well as for the establishment of civil registration offices in all districts, with a particular focus on rural areas | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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140.1.2 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Accede to the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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140.1.1 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Consider ratifying the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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157.302 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Provide full citizenship and rights for the Bidoon population | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.301 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Take actions to ensure that the rights of stateless individuals, including the Bidoon, and those of domestic migrant and foreign female workers are protected and stateless children have access to education and health care | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.300 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Address human rights issues deriving from statelessness | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.299 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Enhance efforts to regularize the legal status of persons belonging to the Bidoon minority, ensuring that their human rights and fundamental freedoms are respected and preventing discrimination against them | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.298 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Accelerate the legislative process to resolve the Bidoon issue, by granting Kuwaiti citizenship to Bidoon people, ensuring non-discriminatory access to social services, and guaranteeing that they can exercise their rights to freedom of movement, peaceful assembly, opinion and expression | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.297 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue efforts to improve the conditions for obtaining nationality for the Bidoon | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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157.296 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Finalize the development of and implement a comprehensive solution to the legal status of the Bidoon that conforms to international law | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.295 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure equal access to education, health care and employment for the Bidoon population is enshrined in legislation | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.294 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Intensify efforts to eradicate statelessness, through measures to accelerate the regularization of Bidoon individuals and to provide them with full access to documentation and social services | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.293 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Make every effort to solve cases of statelessness, recognizing when necessary the right to acquire Kuwaiti nationality, in particular for the Bidoon population | 4 - General action | Noted |
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157.292 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Provide legal documentation and basic services to all stateless persons, including the Bidoon community | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.291 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Provide access to adequate social services and education to stateless persons, the Bidoon, and process their nationality applications in accordance with international standards | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.231 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue efforts towards equality between women and men and the fight against violence against women, by repealing article 182 of the Criminal Code and amending the Nationality Act in order to ensure gender equality in the transmission of nationality | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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157.213.2 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend legislation so as to allow Kuwaiti women to pass on their nationality to their children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.213.1 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Carry out the necessary legal reforms so that Kuwaiti women can transmit their nationality to their descendants on an equal footing with men | 4 - General action | Noted |
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157.151 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Determine and publish clear, objectively verifiable criteria for naturalization and provide by law judicial remedies | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.85 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Remove all gender-discriminatory provisions from the Nationality Law | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.79.2 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend the Nationality Act to guarantee that women can transmit their nationality, on an equal basis with men, to their spouses and children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.79.1 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend the Nationality Act to enable Kuwaiti women to transfer nationality to their children and spouses on an equal basis with men | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.78 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Review the personal status laws and the Nationality Act to eliminate all discrimination against women, including granting Kuwaiti women equal rights with men in passing on their nationality to their children | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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157.77 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Reform the Kuwaiti nationality law of 1959 to grant women the right to pass their nationality on to their children | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.43 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Consider ratifying the conventions relating to the status of refugees and stateless persons | 3 - Considering action | Noted |
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157.16 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Accede to the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and put in place a transparent process that addresses the concerns of the Bidoon people | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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