S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E Recommendations TO THE Government of Kuwait The GoK has selectively adhered to the international human rights obligations to which it is a state party. Its reservations and interpretive declarations on legally binding, multinational human rights treaties restrict the application of international law and the current government appears, regrettably, disinclined to end these rights restrictions. For this reason, we call on the GoK to act in good faith and retrospectively accept and implement recommendations made by at least 10 of the 16 states in the 4th Cycle of the UPR, in 2025 (see Appendix 5). Furthermore, we urge the GoK to: 01 End statelessness in Kuwait by 2030, ensuring that no person in Kuwait can be considered, under international standards and practice, as stateless; 02 Pro-actively work with UNHCR and civil society to develop and implement a concrete programme for ending statelessness; 03 Immediately suspend the revocation of citizenship until the Nationality Law be aligned with international human rights standards and international best practice, including by working with the OHCHR and UNHCR in order to ensure compliance 04 Ensure that those affected by citizenship revocation can fulfill their basic needs, such as education, healthcare, housing, the right to dispose of their personal bank accounts, manage property, and obtain identity and travel documents; 05 Reinstate the nationality to all those stripped in the absence of any wrongful or illegal act, such as children or any other individual who does not have any meaningful, effective or legal connection to any other state; 06 Reinstate the nationality of all those whose citizenship the government revoked in the absence of an independent or effective review and due process, including the possibility to challenge the withdrawal before a court;152 07 Reverse all nationality-related decisions based on the rendering illegal of previously permitted and legal conduct, such as in relation to passing Kuwaiti nationality from a male Kuwaiti to a non-Kuwaiti wife, as highlighted by, amongst others, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls,its causes and consequences;153 08 Ensure a transparent and carefully considered mechanism with an objectively verifiable independent appeal mechanism - beyond the existing Grievance Committee - to ensure fairness, justice, and compliance with the law in cases of citizenship revocation, without official interference to use the revocation against opponents or critics, and to give those affected a full opportunity to file complaints before a fair judiciary. 55