Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ point.).45 Restrictions on Bidoons’ access to education make children either receive inferior education to that of Kuwaiti citizen children or fail to get any education at all. Regardless that the Kuwaiti government announced a package of 11 'privileges' that would be granted to Bidoons upon the 2011 demonstrations, including the right to register births and marriages; moreover, access to education and healthcare; in practice, little has been done since 2011 to implement these promises.46 Currently, many Bidoons children attend private schools that provide Arabiclanguage instruction and serve Bidoon students primarily. These schools' annual fees range between KD 250 and 450 (US $860 to $1550) per child while parents pay extra costs for textbooks and uniforms.47 Although Kuwait has signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which requires governments to provide free education, most of the women I interviewed during my internship were illiterate. They never sent their children to private or public schools. Many of them said that they couldn't afford such fees. 6- Right to Work: Bidoons face discrimination in employment under their 'illegal' status. Although many government ministries hire Bidoons, this is generally based on 'remuneration for work' contracts which offer little job security with none of the benefits provided by law to citizens and expatriate workers; including pensions, childcare supplements, protections against unfair termination, promotions, job security, endof-service bonuses, paid sick leave, and annual leave. Moreover, in both the public 45 Ibid P.28 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] 47 Human Rights Watch, Prisoners of the Past: Kuwaiti Bidoons and the Burden of Statelessness, 13 June 2011, P.33, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4df7191b2.html [accessed 22 December 2015]. 46 20