S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E
A P P E NDIX 3
AP PE N D I X 3 — CO N T I N U ED
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11 February 2025 — MENA Rights Group, MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati), SALAM DHR,
Minority Rights Group, HuMENA, DAWN, Rights Realization Centre, Global Movement Against
Statelessness and ALQST called on the GoK to end the campaign of mass citizenship stripping
and repeal amendments to the Nationality Law; 171
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18 February 2025 — The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), in its pre-sessional briefing to the
working group on the UPR in relation to Kuwait, drew attention to those ʻrecentlyʼ deprived of
their citizenship, notably women married to Kuwaiti men. As a result of the changes, “They found
themselves without access to documentation for basic travel or services, the ability to maintain employment,
banking services, or the ability to own their property or run their businesses. Some were disabled individuals
in need of proper medical care, or patients who needed to travel for care.” GCHR called on the GoK to
suspend and reverse “all decisions to strip naturalised people of their Kuwaiti nationality”; 172
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4 June 2025 — GCHR asserted that “Citizensʼ rights continue to deteriorate as government escalates
stripping of nationality”, and set out the escalation of the denationalisation campaign and wider
deterioration in citizensʼ rights; 173 and
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13 July 2025 — SALAM DHR, Hawiati, and RRC called on the authorities to “Stop destroying Kuwaiti
families and society with mass, arbitrary citizenship revocations that fly in the face of human dignity;
Kuwaiti and international law”. 174
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