S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E We remind the GoK, a member of the Human Rights Council to at least the end of 2026 and, under arrangements in place in July 2026, due to remain so until 2029, to align itself with actions set out in a 2023 resolution, namely:154 To develop and implement national plans of action to end statelessness, in consultation with organizations led by those affected by statelessness and wider civil society, and encourages the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other concerned United Nations agencies to provide technical assistance to support these efforts, if requested and as appropriate. Our organisations call on the GoK to pledge to implement this recommendation as part of its bid to serve on the 2027-2029 cycle of state membership to the Human Rights Council. If it cannot commit to this, the GoK must withdraw its candidacy for membership in favour of another state in the Asia Pacific group. TO THE EU and its member states and the United Kingdom The European Union External Affairs Action Service (EEAS) maintains a Delegation - an EU “embassy” - in Kuwait; Brussels-based EEAS regional staff regularly engage with Europebased civil society in order to inform EEAS engagement with Kuwaiti counterparts. There is, however, limited EU or Kuwaiti will to address, with any seriousness, difficult human rights issues impacting both parties. For that reason, our organisations call on the EU to assist the GoK where it is unwilling or unable to help stateless and other human rights activists in Kuwait or those facing statelessness-like circumstances. Namely, we urge the EEAS to: 01 Include formal meetings with businesses, educational establishments and human rights activists from the stateless community in Kuwait and, where possible, other GCC member states, at successive EU-GCC Joint Council and Ministerial and EU-GCC Business Forum meetings in order to promote the recognition and legitimacy of the stateless community in the GCC and their socio-economic development, noting that such engagement may need to be in private, confidential online meetings on account of possible reprisals or other human rights violations stateless human rights activists in the region face. Like the EU, while the Government of the United Kingdom (UK) has long and deep relations with Kuwait, there is no independently, objectively verifiable evidence that its diplomats have raised any meaningful or enduring issues relating to human rights with their counterparts. Nevertheless, as a member of the Global Alliance to End Statelessness, following every engagement with Kuwaiti counterparts, UK officials should provide a public report on the GoKʼs conduct towards stateless people. For example, in the course of the 1 October 2025 conversation with the Crown Prince of Kuwait, at a peak time of the citizenship stripping campaign, the UKʼs Prime Minister did not appear to reference this matter, despite it impacting directly on former UK nationals.155 For that reason the UK should: 56