Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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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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157.299 | 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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157.291 | 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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157.290 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Further implement the legislative framework adopted in order to ensure the protection of migrant workers | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.288 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Take stronger and more effective measures to improve the dire conditions of migrant workers, in particular domestic ones, and to respect and promote their human rights without discrimination | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.277 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure effective legal protection for migrant workers, in particular with regard to working time, respect for a minimum wage and access to social and medical services, in accordance with international standards | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.266 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Raise awareness of the importance of the introduction of inclusive education for children with disabilities in regular educational establishments | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.257 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Raise the minimum legal age for marriage to 18 years | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.253 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Strengthen efforts to ensure that the best interests of children are a primary consideration in all judicial proceedings where parents are involved, and especially when sentencing parents to death | 4 - General action | Noted |
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157.239 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure full equality between men and women and criminalize domestic violence | 4 - General action | Noted |
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157.235 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Take further measures to enhance women’s participation in political life and the judiciary | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.232 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Publicly recognize the legitimate role of women human rights defenders and those working on women’s rights | 4 - General 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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157.228 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue taking measures to empower women and undertaking specific actions in this regard | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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157.227 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue advancing equality between men and women and guarantee women’s equality in matters of divorce and inheritance | 2 - Continuing action | Noted |
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157.226 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Prohibit domestic violence and sexual harassment against women and children and ensure that women have equality before the law | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.220 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue to strengthen efforts towards the achievement of equality between men and women and the empowerment of women | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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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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157.180 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Redouble efforts with regard to the kafalah system | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.176 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Strengthen the enforcement of provisions for the protection of foreign and domestic workers and for combating forced labour | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.173 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure all employers are aware of their obligations under Kuwaiti law concerning domestic workers, including the illegality of passport confiscation and debt bondage | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.163 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Repeal the kafalah sponsorship system | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.160 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Refrain from undue restrictions on freedom of expression and harmonize communications and media legislation with internationally recognized standards | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.155 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure a safe and enabling space for journalists and human rights defenders and fully guarantee the rights to freedom of expression, opinion and peaceful assembly, in line with international standards | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.153 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Take further steps to guarantee freedom of expression and of the media, as well as ensuring that journalists are free to practice in a safe and enabling environment | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.152 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend and repeal all laws and policies restricting freedom of opinion and expression, and protect human rights defenders, journalists and bloggers from persecution and harassment | 5 - Specific 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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157.150 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Amend the relevant laws on public gatherings and non-governmental organizations to guarantee the freedoms of association and peaceful assembly, in line with international standards | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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