Ensuring the right to a nationality for persons belonging to minorities through facilitation of birth registration, naturalization and citizenship for stateless minorities
Eleventh Session of the Forum on Minority Issues
Statelessness: A Minority Issue
Ensuring the right to a nationality for persons belonging to minorities through facilitation of birth registration, naturalization and citizenship for stateless minorities
ICSFT recommends the following steps to be taken:
The UN Forum on Minority Issues should convene a session dedicated to addressing the systematic discrimination against the stateless population of Bidoons in Kuwait, and shed light on the violation of human rights of the Bidoons and demand the Kuwaiti government for long overdue reforms – specifically change of laws and practices in this regard.
The Forum along with the office of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues should urge the Kuwaiti government to establish an independent tribunal to access naturalization claims by Bidoons and ensure its effective implementation.
Kuwait must find a sustainable solution in accordance with international standards to remedy the situation of Bidoons and Shia minority to ensure that they are not victims of systemic discrimination.
Finally, Kuwait should take steps to ensure that the basic rights of its stateless population are respected, including their inalienable right to nationality, education, employment, health care, housing and other basic social services as enshrined in the Universal Declaration for Human Rights.
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