The International Council Supporting Fair Trial and Human Rights calls on the Kuwaiti authorities to completely cancel the laws that are based on racial discrimination against the Bidoon and give them their full civil rights, including the right to access to the judiciary to challenge the unfair decisions of the Central Agency for Remedying Illegal Residents' Status’ against them. And start the naturalization process without putting obstacles or giving flimsy justifications to prolong that process.

ICSFT calls on the relevant bodies in the United Nations to put an end to the suffering of the Bidoon in Kuwait through radical solutions and to investigate the violations committed by the Central Agency against that group, which led Kuwait to violate its international obligations and the treaties it has ratified. This can only be done by holding an urgent session at the Human Rights Council to discuss this humanitarian situation and appoint a special rapporteur for it. ICSFT would like to draw attention to the increase in suicides among the Bidoon, due to poor living conditions and the increase in strict restrictions on them.

ICSFT also affirms the need for Kuwait to ratify the 1954 Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and to recognize the right of the Bidoon to nationality and access to social services.

Please find attached the full written statement

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The Bidoon in Kuwait ... an unresolved human tragedy