S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E One woman - name redacted - wrote to NASI on 14 August 2025, explaining: “I am a Kuwaiti woman, divorced, with original citizenship, and I have children who are stateless. They suffer severe injustice, as they have no civil rights, no passports, no civil ID cards, no work, and no rights. Kuwaiti women suffer severe injustice and oppression under the new Kuwaiti government laws. Although the Kuwaiti constitution guarantees equality between men and women, all our rights are being taken away. Please do justice for our children, whose future is uncertain and dark.”116 In this instance, the children of a Kuwaiti woman, where the non-Kuwaiti father is no longer present in Kuwait, sets out concern for her stateless children who have no rights, while vague constitutional assertions of equality provide no remedy when the Nationality Law prohibits conferral of nationality. Another woman of Iranian heritage, where the nationality or status of the husband is not disclosed, but naturalised by marriage, explained to NASI that in November 2024, the government revoked her citizenship without due process: “...[L]eaving me and my 18-year-old daughter at risk of statelessness and severe hardship. I have been a resident of Kuwait since 1994. My daughter, a Kuwaiti by birth, suffers from a serious immune deficiency that is aggravated by stress. The threats and pressure from the Kuwaiti authorities have already caused her severe health relapses, including gastrointestinal bleeding. She lost her scholarship and fell behind in her studies due to this situation. We have been explicitly threatened that unless I obtain an Iranian passport by August 2025, all our rights will be revoked, our bank accounts frozen, and we will be deprived of all benefits.”117 SN A PSH OT 5 Psychological and social harm Taken together, the mainly women - married or divorced from Kuwaiti men - interviewed for this report described increased vulnerability arising from the revocation of their nationality. Revocation presaged social stigmatisation, loss of identity, community and security. Many felt the decision rendered them invisible, due to their loss of legal, economic and social standing. Economic and material deprivation, compounded by harassment led to acute mental health crises. Unable to own property, have a bank account, employment or access state health care, they became totally reliant and dependent upon their husbands. Scores, though it is impossible to gauge the scale, faced exploitation (even by acquaintances, who knew they have “no rights le�”), blackmail and coercion, such as having to transfer ownership of family homes completely to their husbands, arising from the loss of legal protection concomitant with having citizenship. Karima related an account from an unnamed woman, background undisclosed,who transferred sole ownership of her entire house to her husband to avoid a legal battle she was no longer able or allowed to fight. This and countless other cases exemplify how loss of nationality strips women of bargaining power, enabling blackmail and coerced property transfers under threat of legal action. An unnamed woman spoke of “no longer” feeling oneself; having oneʼs life “turned black” or “erased from the map.” Samira (pseudonym; see elsewhere in this section) said that she had suicidal thoughts: “each one of us says it: I want to kill myself”. Karima (pseudonym; see elsewhere) spoke of being coerced into a KD6,000 (US$19,480) repayment when its maturity was years later, and how that contributed to her “wishing for death; thinking of ending [her] life” Another - a woman who did not even want to be named said she was “too ashamed even to talk about” abuses. 45