A P P E NDIX 3 S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E A P P E ND IX 3 Civil society condemnation of the GoK’s citizenship stripping campaign up to July 2025 International human rights bodies, notably civil society organisations, have repeatedly alerted the international community to Kuwaitʼs 2024-2025 human rights crisis. These alerts include the following publications: 01 10 September 2024 — The Gulf Center for Human Rights (GCHR) warned in a statement that “Authorities continue arbitrary citizenship revocation policy”. 167 02 11 October 2024 — GCHR and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), addressing Kuwaitʼs review under the Universal Periodic Review, called on the GoK, in relation to the longstanding stateless community, to grant citizenship to the Bidoon community members who reside in Kuwait and ensure that equal access to education, health care and employment for the Bidoon population is enshrined in legislation. 168 03 23 November 2024 and 3 December 2024 — Three organisations, Salam for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR), Hawiati — the MENA Statelessness Network (HAWIATI) and Rights Realization Centre (RRC), sent a memorandum to the GoK. The organisations requested the specific and objectively verifiable criteria that the GoK was using to conduct their citizenship revocation campaign, and information as to how the campaign adhered to international law. Its questions and concerns became the basis for a 20 December 2024 statement. On 20 December 2024, the organisations publicised their communication with the GoK. It denounced the mass citizenship stripping campaign and warned of the retroactive application of new legislation that rendered thousands stateless; 169 04 10 February 2025 — GCHR flagged that Amendments to the Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights, and set out a systematic analysis of Decree-Law 116/2024 (see above) and related measures. GCHR noted that the government had stripped the citizenship of tens of thousands and provided an assessment of the violations of Kuwaitʼs constitution and international standards to which it is a state party; 170 CONTINUES OVERLEAF → 61