UPR Info

Withdraw reservations to CAT and ratify OP-CAT ( Estonia); 157.12. Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant workers and members of their families (ICRMW)

Consider ratification of ICCPR-OP 2, aiming at abolition of the death penalty

Provide full citizenship and rights for the Bidoon population

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

Address human rights issues deriving from statelessness

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

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

Continue efforts to improve the conditions for obtaining nationality for the Bidoon

Finalize the development of and implement a comprehensive solution to the legal status of the Bidoon that conforms to international law

Ensure equal access to education, health care and employment for the Bidoon population is enshrined in legislation

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

Make every effort to solve cases of statelessness, recognizing when necessary the right to acquire Kuwaiti nationality, in particular for the Bidoon population

Provide legal documentation and basic services to all stateless persons, including the Bidoon community

Provide access to adequate social services and education to stateless persons, the Bidoon, and process their nationality applications in accordance with international standards

Further implement the legislative framework adopted in order to ensure the protection of migrant workers

Continue strengthening measures to improve the working and living conditions of migrant workers

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

Take further steps to improve the protection of the rights of migrant workers including through effective enforcement of relevant laws and policies

Scale up efforts in the promotion and protection of the rights of migrants and domestic workers

Continue efforts to protect the rights and welfare of migrant workers, including women domestic workers, by ensuring access to remedies and complaint mechanisms

Strengthen measures to ensure access to legal protection by migrant workers

Improve the dissemination of relevant legislation on the rights and duties of foreign workers so as to mitigate incidents that they face

Continue efforts towards the protection of the rights of migrant workers