Number | Date added | Template | Cycle | Session | State under Review | Recommendation | Recommending State | Action Category | Response | Issues |
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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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157.281 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Strengthen protection of the rights of migrant workers, particularly domestic workers, including by creating a specialized labour inspection body and criminalizing the retention of passports by employers | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.252 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue working to increase the representation of women in leadership and in decision-making positions | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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157.230 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue to consolidate national mechanisms that allow the greater participation and equality of women, as well as promoting and protecting the rights and well-being of women and girls | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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157.214 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue to strengthen the policy in favour of gender equality and the empowerment of women | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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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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157.201 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Remove all barriers preventing married women and girls from gaining access to high-quality education and ensure the inclusion of boys in instruction on family life in school | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.190 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Continue consolidating measures to improve the legislation on the right to health that guarantees universal access to health-care services | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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157.170 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Maintain efforts to increase international cooperation in combating trafficking in persons, especially women and children, as well as exchanging and taking advantage of experiences and good practices in that area | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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157.162 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Strengthen mechanisms to prevent the exploitation and abuse of migrant workers, and ensure full respect for their human rights | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.161 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Reinforce measures to investigate and punish cases of trafficking in persons, especially for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and those involving girls, boy and adolescents in forced labour, and guarantee assistance to victims | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.156 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ensure a safe and enabling environment to civil society and human rights defenders, including through the prohibition and punishment of all forms of harassment and reprisals | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.146 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Guarantee the right to freedom of expression and association for all people and especially for journalists, activists and human rights defenders | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.140 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Implement additional measures to combat domestic violence that make available mechanisms for protection, access to justice and effective reparation for victims of violence | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.136 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Take all necessary measures to prevent, combat and penalize domestic and gender-based violence, including sexual violence and marital rape | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.135 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Adopt the necessary measures to ensure that acts of torture are criminalized as offences in criminal law and punishable by penalties proportional to the seriousness of the crime, in line with the Convention against Torture | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.130 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Incorporate in legislation the absolute prohibition of torture in all circumstances, including in regard to anti-terrorism activities, specifying that nobody can invoke a superior order to justify torture | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.123 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Establish a moratorium on the death penalty and advance towards the abolition of this practice | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.113 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Consider the impact of climate change on human rights in national planning and decision-making | 3 - Considering action | Supported |
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157.109 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Further pursue efforts to promote sustainable economic and social development within the framework of Kuwait Vision 2035 and other national development plans | 2 - Continuing action | Supported |
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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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157.68 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Intensify the programmes, activities and training for human rights issues for police and military personnel | 5 - Specific action | Supported |
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157.58 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Repeal criminal provisions that punish consensual sexual relations between adults of the same sex, as well as demonstrations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual identity | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.57 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Define as crimes domestic violence, sexual violence and marital rape, with penalties proportional to the seriousness of these offences | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.40.3 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.39.2 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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157.23 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Strengthen cooperation with human rights mechanisms, especially with special procedures mandate holders | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.21 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Further strengthen technical cooperation with OHCHR and other mechanisms and support for the human rights funds | 4 - General action | Supported |
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157.11.5 | Jun 20, 2020 | Recommendation | Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021) | 35 - January 2020 | Ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment | 5 - Specific action | Noted |
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