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  • Stateless Persons
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Number of results found: 56

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.300 Address human rights issues deriving from statelessness.

157.300 Address human rights issues deriving from statelessness.

Recommending State: Japan

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.213 Carry out the necessary legal reforms so that Kuwaiti women can transmit their nationality to their descendants on an equal footing with men.

157.213 Carry out the necessary legal reforms so that Kuwaiti women can transmit their nationality to their descendants on an equal footing with men.

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.299 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. 

157.299 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. 

Recommending State: Italy

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.43 Consider ratifying the conventions relating to the status of refugees and stateless persons.

157.43 Consider ratifying the conventions relating to the status of refugees and stateless persons.

Recommending State: Cote d'Ivoire

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.77 Reform the Kuwaiti nationality law of 1959 to grant women the right to pass their nationality on to their children.

157.77 Reform the Kuwaiti nationality law of 1959 to grant women the right to pass their nationality on to their children.

Recommending State: Denmark

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

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

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

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

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

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

Recommending State: Uruguay

Recommendation Noted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.79 Amend the Nationality Act to guarantee that women can transmit their nationality, on an equal basis with men, to their spouses and children.

157.79 Amend the Nationality Act to guarantee that women can transmit their nationality, on an equal basis with men, to their spouses and children.

Recommending State: Mexico

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

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

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

Recommending State: Canada

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17
Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 3rd

Kuwait

157.301 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.

157.301 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.

Recommending State: Netherlands

Recommendation Accepted

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Statelessness Doc. A/HRC/44/17