Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa human rights mechanisms, suggesting that those who are concerned about their plight have not succeeded in employing the language of and navigating the channels for international engagement on the issue. As already suggested, there may therefore be some connection between the lack of a common language for statelessness and the lack of a unified or collective response. Rarely has collective pressure been applied to the respective governments to address the situation of statelessness in their countries, since the lack of nationality is not seen as a unified problem by the affected population and the organizations working with them. This is both because of a lack of understanding of the issue and the lack of solidarity in terms utilized. Although many Kuwaiti citizens for instance working on the issue use the term stateless and Bidoon as they believe this will build understanding and momentum regionally universally to the groups plight, one Kuwaiti Bidoon reflects the opinion of many among his community, that their statelessness problem was ‘a pure formality [elaborating] that the situation of the Kuwaiti Bidoons was not comparable to that of other stateless populations in the world and he did not identify with any such group”.23 23 - Lund-Johansen.Marie, Fighting for Citizenship in Kuwait, 2014, p.76 26