Suzan El Tahhan Bidoons: A Statelessness Plight in Kuwait ‫مجلة الدراسات القانونية واالقتصادية‬ and private sectors, Bidoons’ salaries are generally lower than those provided to citizens and expatriate workers.48 Bidoons can never enjoy permanent employment statuses working only in the low-paying informal sector that lacks legal protection, as street vendors, or providers of services such as auto repairs.49 7- Right to Health: Beginning in 1993, Bidoons were required to pay fees to utilize health care centers, although those services remained free for Kuwaiti citizens.50 The government used to provide Bidoons with health care covered by low-cost insurance. However, such insurance did not provide full coverage like that Kuwaiti citizens enjoy. Bidoons interviewed said “… they could not afford their health care costs and that the government policy failed to cover testing, medication, or surgical care that medical professionals had recommended to them”.51 8- Right to Freedom of Movement: Although Kuwait has ratified the ICCPR- which in article 12 recognizes the right of an individual "to leave any country, including his own and not to be arbitrarily deprived of the right to enter his own country.", most Kuwaiti Bidoons complained from restrictions on their right to travel. The Committee's General Comment 27 adds that "these provisions apply not only to citizens but also to those with strong ties to a particular country". It also Minority Rights Group International, World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous People’s, Kuwait, Bidoons, Updated December 2017, available at: https://minorityrights.org/minorities/Bidoons/ [accessed 15 January 2019] 49 Human Rights Watch, Prisoners of the Past: Kuwaiti Bidoons and the Burden of Statelessness, 13 June 2011, P.38, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4df7191b2.html [accessed 22 December 2015]. 50 Human Rights Watch, Kuwait: Promises Betrayed: Denial of Rights of Bidoons, Women, and Freedom of Expression, 1 October 2000, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6a87e0.html [accessed 2 February 2019] 51 Human Rights Watch, Prisoners of the Past: Kuwaiti Bidoons and the Burden of Statelessness, 13 June 2011, P.7, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4df7191b2.html [accessed 22 December 2015] 48 21