S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E Endnotes 149. MENAFN - UN High Commissioner Hails Kuwait's Support For Refugees, 24 May 2025, https://menafn.com/1109590421/UN-High-Commissioner-Hails-Kuwaits-Support-ForRefugees accessed 10 December 2025 150. Cóman Kenny, Legislated Out of Existence: Mass Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality Resulting in Statelessness as an International Crime, International Criminal Law Review, Volume 20: Issue 6, 27 November 2020 (online publication), https://brill.com/view/journals/ icla/20/6/article-p1026_1026.xml? language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopngTZ9CtDYcLqH4oi8MssCHaEdmK1Gp_nionu1DLEpNMd2oOu , accessed 15 December 2025 151. United Nations, General Assembly - Human Rights Council: Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Human rights and arbitrary deprivation of nationality - Report of the Secretary-General, UN reference A/HRC/25/28, 19 December 2013, https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/ g13/190/38/pdf/g1319038.pdf, accessed 20 January 2026 152. These are two calls made jointly by HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement, Minority Rights Group, MENA Rights Group, DAWN, MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati), Rights Realization Centre, Salam for Democracy and Human Rights, Global Movement Against Statelessness and ALQST for Human Rights in their 11 February 2025 joint appeal: Kuwaiti government must end campaign of mass citizenship stripping and repeal recent amendments to Nationality Law, https://menarights.org/en/articles/kuwaitigovernment-must-end-campaign-mass-citizenship-stripping-and-repeal-recent accessed 21 January 2026 153. See paragraph 11, in UN, Human Rights Council - Sixty-second session, 15 June–10 July 2026. Agenda item 3 - Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development - Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls,its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, 10 June 2026, https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ ahrc6249add1-visit-kuwait-report-special-rapporteur-violence-against, accessed19 July 2026. She states the practice referred to “[I]s concerning, as, in accordance with the international human rights principle of non-regression in international law, States are called upon to promote equality by upli�ing disadvantaged groups, such as enabling Kuwaiti women to pass citizenship to their spouses and children, rather than stripping men of this right.” 154. See paragraph 20, inUnited Nations, Human Rights Council, Fi�y-third Session Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 13 July 2023, 53/16. The right to a nationality: equality in nationality rights in law and in practice, 19 June-14 July 2023, https:/ /docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/RES/53/16#:~:text=remain%20unresolved%20to%20this%20day, and%20may%20pose%20a%20barrier , accessed 21 January 2026 88