Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ census. However, it has been reported that only a small number of Bidoons who were rich and have connections, were able to acquire nationality through this process. The yearly quota of 2,000 naturalizations, as stipulated by the law, has never been met.41 In June 2010, during Kuwait's most recent review by the United Nations Human Rights Council (the successor of the Human Rights Commission), “the government announced that the authorities issued 300 birth certificates to children of Kuwaiti mothers and Bidoons fathers in 2009 but did not mention the children born to two stateless parents”.42 5- Right to Education: In 1987 the government ended public education for Bidoon children and instructed private schools to require valid residency permits. In 1988 the government extended the ban on public education to the university.43 Accordingly, while Bidoons in the United Arab Emirates cannot follow education beyond high school, Bidoons in Kuwait report problems accessing secondary school as well as entering university.44 Suppose access to government education and healthcare facilities is barred. In that case, stateless persons must pay to use private services, which can be prohibitively expensive since stateless persons tend to have an inadequate income (This will be clarified further when discussing the right to work in the following Minority Rights Group International, World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous People’s, Kuwait, Bidoons, Updated December 2017, available at: https://minorityrights.org/minorities/Bidoons/ [accessed 15 January 2019] 42 Human Rights Watch, Prisoners of the Past: Kuwaiti Bidoons and the Burden of Statelessness, 13 June 2011, P.27, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4df7191b2.html [accessed 23 December 2015]. 43 Human Rights Watch, Kuwait: Promises Betrayed: Denial of Rights of Bidoons, Women, and Freedom of Expression, 1 October 2000, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a87e0.html [accessed 2 February 2019] 44 UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), The situation of stateless persons in the Middle East and North Africa, October 2010, P.28, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4cea28072.html [accessed 21 December 2015]. 41 19