Category Archives: Kuwait

CEDAW Reviews Kuwait’s Gender Equality Progress: Commendation and Calls for Reform

Kuwait recently underwent review from the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) [...]

Bahrain and Kuwait Human Rights Cooperation

On 9 May 2024, Shaikh Isa bin Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, the Undersecretary of [...]

The Struggle for Rights: Stateless Palestinians in Kuwait

The quest for human rights is an ongoing battle, and one of the areas where [...]

Dispatch: Examining Kuwait Electoral System

Introduction Kuwait is a country in West Asia that borders Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. [...]

Kuwait’s Amnesty Scheme: a ploy to get rid of illegal migrants?

The Kuwaiti government has announced that from March 17 to June 17 illegal migrants, such [...]

The Modern Day Slaves of the Arab Gulf; What’s really going on with domestic workers in Kuwait?

The GCC Context   For the past decade, the Arab Gulf Region has been pervaded [...]

World Press Freedom Day

An infography on the state of press freedom in the world as well as in [...]

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

28th April 2022 In celebration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work [...]

The Status of Kuwait’s Stateless Bidoon

In November 2014, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees launched the Campaign to End [...]

Kuwait: behind the façade of International and Human Rights Commitments, the use of Torture has to end.

Stateless Arabs, known as bidoons, protest to demand rights in Jahra City, 50 kms of [...]