ISI Database on Statelessness and
Human Rights

Connecting nationality, statelessness and human rights. Explore and compare information from the international human rights monitoring systems to promote a human rights-based approach to nationality and statelessness.

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Number of results found: 56

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 2nd

157.249. Implement the strategic plan to resolve the issue of stateless individuals in Kuwait, through a transparent system in which individuals whose nationality and status is unresolved can either attain Kuwaiti nationality rightfully or otherwise regularize their situation.

157.249. Implement the strategic plan to resolve the issue of stateless individuals in Kuwait, through a transparent system in which individuals whose nationality and status is unresolved can either attain Kuwaiti nationality rightfully or otherwise regularize their situation.

Recommending State: United Kingdom

Recommendation Noted

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Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

81.4. Recognize the right to Kuwaiti nationality of those persons who have been left stateless due to the nationality law in 1959, and provide for the same enjoyment of their human rights as to other citizens.

81.4. Recognize the right to Kuwaiti nationality of those persons who have been left stateless due to the nationality law in 1959, and provide for the same enjoyment of their human rights as to other citizens.

Recommending State: Slovakia

Recommendation Noted

Protection/Enjoyment of rights Remedy/Reparation

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

82.2. Ratify the Convention relating to the status of stateless persons and the Convention relating to the reduction of statelessness.

82.2. Ratify the Convention relating to the status of stateless persons and the Convention relating to the reduction of statelessness.

Recommending State: Netherlands

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

81.5. Improve the situation of the “Beduns” by considering the possibility of acceding to the Convention on refugees and its protocol, as well as to the conventions dealing with statelessness.

81.5. Improve the situation of the “Beduns” by considering the possibility of acceding to the Convention on refugees and its protocol, as well as to the conventions dealing with statelessness.

Recommending State: Switzerland

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

82.3. Accede to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons.

82.3. Accede to the 1954 Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons.

Recommending State: France

Recommendation Noted

International Instruments

Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1st

81.6. End all de jure and de facto discrimination against “Beduns” by affording en masse all Beduns equal protection under law, and in particular by conferring Kuwaiti nationality on a non-discriminatory basis and allowing for the use of social services to such persons.

81.6. End all de jure and de facto discrimination against “Beduns” by affording en masse all Beduns equal protection under law, and in particular by conferring Kuwaiti nationality on a non-discriminatory basis and allowing for the use of social services to such persons.

Recommending State: Israel

Recommendation Noted

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