3228th Meeting, 118th Session, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Good morning, colleagues.
Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to the second day of our meeting.
I declare the 3228th meeting of the committee on the elimination of racial discrimination open.
Today, we will continue the consideration of the combined 25th to 26th periodic reports of Kuwait.
I once more would like to welcome back the delegation of Kuwait and the committee looks forward to continuing the constructive dialogue that we have started yesterday.
According to the methodology that I have already outlined yesterday, we are going to have a dialogue organized in two segments.
The first segment, Segment three is going to focus on issues related to statelessness and multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination.
And Segment four will focus on the convention in domestic law continuing from yesterday's discussions, the situation of human rights defenders, access to justice, human rights education to combat prejudice and intolerance.
I will again kindly remind everyone on the need for the strict management of time and without further delay, I will give the floor to the country rapporteur, Mr.
Flemani.
Mr.
Clemani, you have the floor and you have 20 minutes.
Mercy.
Much appreciated, Mr.
Chairman.
Following on from our discussion which took place yesterday, I would like to continue and delve more deeper into a couple of areas.
The first one, as you've just recalled, is matters pertaining to statelessness and number two, the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination.
The view of the delegation on these points would be greatly appreciated.
As for laws on nationality in this implementation, withdrawal of nationality and risk of statelessness first, the report of the State Party states in paragraph 16, 116 that residents who in an irregular situation are not stateless under the 1951 convention terms because they uh conceal voluntarily their nationality.
Now, on what basis this proof of disclosure rests? I ask and what remedy does anyone have who has no nationality, really has no nationality to have his or her real situation recognized rather than the presumption imposed upon him or her.
The report states that around 81,000 people have regularized their situation since 1991 and 17,285 were naturalized 1992-2018, that is out of a total pod population estimated between 85,000 and more depending on the years.
Now, how do you explain the continued decrease of the badoon 22009180-85 thousand 2018? Is this mainly naturalizations or regularizations? Or revelation of foreign nationality, a departure from the country or renewal of the status through death or non renewal or birth registration.
What precise criteria apply to distinguish between irregular residents, those eligible for naturalization and those who do not have access thereto.
This procedure, does it provide for a right for a remedy if there is a denial? The Reporter Safe Party describes the regime to acquire nationality pursuant to Articles three and five of law 15 of 1959, but does not mention any provision pertaining to the withdrawal or revocation of nationality.
It also contends that decisions pertaining to the acquisition of nationality in Kuwait cannot give rise to any remedy because the attribution of nationality is a regalian right to the state, namely one, it's a sole preserve of the state.
This right to remedy, does it apply to withdrawal nationality also is my question, how does the state party reconcile this lack of court supervision and the right to an effective remedy guaranteed by Article 6 of CRT.
Could you provide information to the committee on the legal grounds whereby Kuwaiti nationality can be withdrawn from a person who acquired it or who was given it when he or she was born? They does the state party have statistical data on the number of people who've lost their nationality over the last few years through administrative judicial decision or decree or because of a revocation decision.
Now, how many cases has this revocation given rise to statelessness because they didn't have another national nationality is my question.
What legal gities exist to prevent statelessness following a revocation of nationality? In particular, pursuant to the principle recognized by international law according to which a state should not deprive a person of their nationality if it makes them stateless.
As pertaining to gender equality, passing on nationality for Kuwaiti women married to aliens.
Article 5, Paragraph two Law 15 of 1959, does not allow the children of a Kuwaiti mother married to an alien to acquire nationality, only when there is a definitive divorce or death or the father has been taken into captivity.
A Kuwaiti married to an alien is not submitted to any other equivalent conditions to pass on the nationality.
The state party doesn't intend to get rid of this difference of treatment and allow Kuwaiti women to pass on their national ity of their children on an equal basis with Kuwaiti men independently of the matrimonial status of the father.
The report does not mention any possibility for a woman Kuwaiti woman to pass on her nationality to their alien spouse, whereas the opposite, namely a committee man can pass on his nationality to his alien wife facilitated by law actually.
Can you provide the information to the members of the committee on this matter, if you have it? Are there measures that protect children from Kuwaitian mothers and alien fathers living in Kuwait and married against the risks of statelessness of restriction of access to socio economic rights giving that result from their status, namely as non nationals.
Do they has the state party carried out an impact assessment of these provisions by, in particular, surveying the number of Kuwaiti women concerned and the number of children actually currently deprived of nationality of women of their parents because of the marriage with the father who is an alien and still on the territory? As to the combating discrimination against status purpose in terms of access to officials access to education education of the children, despite the recognition of the right to the issuance of a civil registry certificate, the documents issued to the bedoun contain the mentioned non Kuwaiti in the nationality section instead of a given nationality, documentary practice, does it not perpetuate, so to speak, Administratively speaking, their exclusion of the bedoons is the same party intending to revise its legal position whereby it systematically qualifies the bedoons as residents in an irregular situation rather than recognizing on a case by case basis according to a fair procedure, those who objectively meet the criteria of the definition of the stateless persons in the 1954 convention, which Kuwaiti still has not exceeded to.
As for the multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination, the report deals with the categories of persons who are vulnerable in a way that is closeted domestic workers, residents in irregular situation, et cetera, without a cross matching these categories.
The following questions are designed to hear your view on this discrimination.
The report presents separately this situation of women without ever analyzing the specific situation of non Kuwaiti foreign workers employed as domestic workers.
The state party, does a state party connect desegregated data cross matched cross matching gender, nationality status, employment to assess the risk due to the accumulation of discrimination on the grounds of sex, national origin, and migratory status.
The statistics on family reunification now they show that the burden of proof for income, the 450 DNRs per month Falls upon the alien in terms of family support.
This rule, does it have a differentiated effect depending on the gender of the mug man get his wife to come in an equivalent profession for family reunification on complaints.
In paragraph 55 and 82 of the report, these complaints about domestic workers, they're not disaggregated by gender or national origin.
Certain nationalities of employees, are they overrepresented in the complaints for abuse which could reveal that there is racial or ethnic discrimination in the treatment of this labor force by certain employers? And finally, women and children who are beoons, do they face cumulative obstacles because of their gender in addition to the general restrictions linked to their status in terms of access to education, employment, civil registry documents, et cetera, the report gives no deseggregated data for these categories.
I will stop here, Mr.
Chairman, in the hope that I'll be able to continue our exchange of views with the official delegation.
Thank you.
May I see Moslems.
This is the first round of questions.
I will give the floor to the delegation for responses.
You have 20 minutes and five more if you'd like.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much, Your Excellency, S you.
I would like to thank the rapporteur, Mr.
Clemsani for his questions and I'd give the floor to Colonel Turki, followed by Nya.
Abdul Aziz and Ima Kuwait? The state of Kuwait and disclose that the matter of nationality conditions for acquiring thereof and the withdrawal of nationality are the sole preserve of the states.
They're regalian powers, very well rooted in international law as a principle.
It's a sovereign power of the state.
The exercise of this right occurs whilst respecting international commitments and that's what Kuwait does in the spirit of non discrimination and a spirit of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms, the state of Kuwait considers that national jurisdiction over nationality, it cannot be decoupled from the other international matters linked to international law which come into play, and in particular, its commitment pertaining to combating racial discrimination in all its forms and manifestations, which is why any law O nationality is based on objective and clear principles and not discrimination in any form on the grounds of sex, origin, religion, language, and fully respects the Constitution and Kuwait's international commitments.
The amendments to the right to nationality or the law governing nationality are to regulate the matter further.
The last amendments or the last digital and administrative developments in Kuwait have meant that nationality, nationality is a legal link between the state and the individual.
It's a nature of its relationship.
As for how one acquires nationality, the legislator has defined those cases in which it is possible for a person to acquire Creative nationality and this to increase transparency and to be able to very precisely interpret texts, legal objectives, and the legal objectives, the administrative and legislative developments in recent times pass on individual information to move from individual information to integrated information.
The procedure that is to ensure there's no contradiction or no manipulation of the documents per se, and as a result of this, the legal status of individuals is consigned to official registers.
As for the withdrawal or removal of nationality, the State of Kuwait would like to state here that procedures depend on situations and can be seen as a one stop shop or a single way to grant nationality and an attempt to break the link between the state and the individual.
These procedures are not based in any way on racial discrimination, not at all, but on legal grounds that are very well defined.
These legal grounds have to do with the preservation of nationality or its withdrawal removal, depending on what the legislator decides.
The state of Kuwait understand how important it is to deal with this matter in a way that is responsible and balanced and taking into account legal and humanitarian considerations whilst at the same time preserving the sovereign right of the state to regulate this matter according to its national laws, according to its international commitments as far as Kuwaiti women and children.
Now, new subject married women married to Kuwaiti nationals, the legislature in Kuwait has not dealt with this category separately from family and societal matters.
Now, thanks to the rules and regulations and laws that exist, the rights of this category have been preserved, which attests to the determination of the state to protect Kuwaiti families of the Kuwaiti family amongst those facilities that exist, namely housing, education, health, free services on the employment market.
Some of these people are recruited in a way directly or indirectly after Kuwaiti citizens, children born of a Kuwaiti mother are treated as Kuwaitis until the age of majority.
If the mother of these children is divorced and their father has passed away or is detained, then rights of the Kuwaiti woman are not affected and its societal role is not affected.
The measure that is in place is designed to frame nationality, nationality sovereign right linked to the national identity and linked to matters pertaining to security and demography.
To conclude, the state of Kuwait thanks the country rapporteur, and states that it is committed to continuously revise its laws and continue its dialogue with international organizations pursuant to its constitution, pursuant to its international commitments and preserving the best interests of the state.
Thank you.
Jabir.
Thank you.
Mr.
Rapporteur, concerning stateless persons, the state of Kuwait would like to clarify one thing, namely that the definition of statelessness in international law is grounded in very well defined criteria.
Each case is studied carefully depending on the ins and outs of the situation, the distinctive features of the situation of the individual concerned.
It's on the basis that it is dealt with.
As for the number of bedoons, we in Kuwait use the term resident in an irregular situation for the bidins there from 210,000 their figure has gone down to 85,000 and this is because this fall in the number of Bdoons has happened because some have decided to go home or have asked to receive asylum in other states.
As to the non Kuwaiti category in birth certificates that you mentioned, the administerial decision, number 409 adopted in 2011, has framed the rights of that category of people, be it to issue birth certificates, death certificates, or any other form of administrative certificates by mentioning this category, non Kuwaiti in these documents.
As for concealment of nationality, which you referred to 10,000 people saw their nationality defined.
For some of them, they were given residency of these 10,000.
This category, non Kuwaiti has the right to appeal against the decision taking about them.
We've registered 10,002 complaints.
542 appeals were filed.
13 cases have to do with residents who are in an irregular situation.
21 had their rights upheld, which is why the decisions of the National Central Office are monitored, overseen by the judiciary.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you.
Could you kindly slow down in your answers? Ask the interpreters kindly.
I thank the co reporter and the other experts.
We have a constitutional principle which is based on non discrimination and based on equality.
We have a raft of laws which guarantee protection for all workers without any discrimination and the Labor Code in that connection covers the private sector and in particular La six adopted in 2010, which governs the contractual relationships between employer employee on the basis of the rights and duties of both, which guarantees the rights of all workers without discrimination.
Furthermore, the Labor authority has adopted decision 77 in 2021 to prohibit discrimination during recruitment in the private sector.
Where the principle of equality between workers was rooted.
This does not apply only to the recruitment stage, but all the other stages, namely the notification, the advertising of jobs, recruitments, training, bonuses to be award, the revocation of the work contract.
The aim being to safeguard the principle of equal opportunities.
This protection also applies to domestic workers.
Article 37 of the implementation of regulations prohibits discrimination during recruitment and this on the basis of gender, race, age, color, religion, or other.
This also enshrines equal opportunities in the recruitment processes with regards to complaints filed by workers in Kuwait, complaints are received by the competent body.
They are desegregated depending on the grounds for the complaints, but also depending on other criteria.
For example, non payment of wages or non payment of bonuses or other grounds.
As to desegregated data broken down by sex and nationality, the statistics we have do not contain a category devoted solely to complaints.
Actually, what we've taken into account is the reason for the complaint and the procedures pertaining to the complaints.
At any rate, all these complaints are reviewed without any discrimination and the appropriate judicial measures are adopted to ensure that there is no discrimination, that there is no violation of the labor law in question which guarantees protection for all migrant workers against abuse.
The Labor authority has continued to develop its data gathering system, its deseggregation, and oversight systems, thanks to which it has gathered more precise data and guarantees better follow up to what it does.
Furthermore, this body has created a pilot project to update the labor code in order to embody therein a number of provisions that will make it possible to create decent work in the country and explicitly prohibit discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, or ability, religion, or any other grounds with a prohibition of forced labor and a prohibition of threatening workers Using this enshrines and promotes the guarantees afforded to workers under international related norms.
Thank you very much.
Now moving now to our statistics.
These statistics come from the senior authority for nationality under the purview of the cabinet, the Council of Ministers.
The consideration of case files has continued and the statistics, the figures we have at our disposal on this matter are not reliable actually and do not reflect reality on the ground.
The regaine and right of the state sovereign power of the state on nationality, when the state considers cases of nationality or naturalization, When the consideration happens, well, this happens pursuant to legal texts pursuant to legal norms and is not based in any way on race, color, religion, origin, or any other grounds for the case to be dealt with when an issue of nationality is considered by the state.
Decision 207 of 2025 on the creation of the complaints and grievances Commission This decision allows for all these cases to be considered cases where a person reportedly has had their nationality withdrawn or removed.
As of the 1st of January 2020, since then until the 10th of August 2026, we have dealt with 2,700 cases of women, which proves that there's no discrimination between cases involving men and cases involving women, which we receive.
Thank you.
10,000 people were regularized.
The situation was regularized.
After their case was thoroughly considered and their case file was studied pursuant to international legal standards, which ensures that each case is dealt with transparently.
The state of Kuwait considers that in order to ensure the provision of basic services, the state driven by the need to give priority to humanitarian concerns has adopted all the laws it needed to adopt.
When I talk about services, I'm referring to health, employment, justice services and many other related services provided by the state.
Thank you, ambassador for giving me the floor.
May I add to what Maher has said about migrant workers or the labor force in general.
Decisions have been adopted on prohibition to travel.
Ships were confiscated, boats were confiscated, banking accounts to the tune of 77 billion dinars were frozen.
This shows that what the competitor authorities do is effective in safeguarding the rights of victims of discrimination.
As far as combating discrimination is concerned for people in irregular situation and in order to guarantee equal opportunities and access to health services, including for irregular residents, obstacles have been removed, especially administrative obstacles.
The state does not impose costs or exorbitant fees for people to enjoy health services.
In national hospitals or in health centers or clinics.
People who have a health card or a re examination card issued by the central administrative authority.
With this card, these people can have access to free health care services that Ministerial decree number 60 adopted in 2011 provides that people in an irregular situation are exempt from paying fees as long as they have this card, I was mentioning granted by the competent authority.
Thank you, Mr.
Co Rapporteur, Chair, I give the floor back to you.
Thank you very much.
I thank you, the delegation for the replies.
The floor is now open for the follow up question by the country task force and of course, the other members of the committee.
Thank you, Chair, I would like once again to get the distinguished delegation of Kuwait and thank them for their participation in this dialogue.
We appreciate the answers the State Party has provided so far.
Along with the country rapporteur, we have raised several questions today seeking clarification from the delegation.
I believe that the delegation has understood that our committee gives particular attention to vulnerable groups as for our convention, which covers what we call the been population or migrants of other categories, religious and ethno religious groups.
Also, we consider issues related to nationality.
So in order to assist the committee so that we can provide operational recommendations that could assist the state party, we would like to have as good an understanding of the situation as possible.
Perhaps a simple understanding says that Bedun as was said yesterday by members of the delegation, are just people in a regular situation.
Perhaps it's an Arabic term that has its particular meaning meaning something like without nationality.
We would like to understand if these people regular residents of which are a significant number Are they indigenous population or is that separate group? We would like to understand the difference here.
What is the Bidun population who do not have documents, who do not have nationality? Where do they come from, from neighboring countries, or are they indigenous to that region? Historically, were they settlers in that region? If we could understand that.
But if this population comes from elsewhere, well, it's a different distinction.
Historically in the country.
Were they settlers in that territory or are they coming from abroad? We would like clarification on this point.
We also received some information decree 107 of October 2024, which broadened the executive's power on revoking nationality.
By applying this decree, the nationality was rejected to a significant number of people.
These measures, as I'm sure you understand, have intergenerational consequences.
In paragraph 99, of the country report, it is said that irregular residence, namely children and grandchildren, so you see here already there's intergenerational effects, which is why we want to have a better understanding of this.
The head of delegation, could you please provide detailed information, please, on the effective implementation of Degree 111 107 of 2024, namely the number of people whose nationality has been revoked since its approval, the reasons provided for that decision, as well as measures taken to deal with statelessness.
What procedural guarantees and legal remedies or initiatives are made accessible to people whose nationality has been revoked? What are the specific consequences of these measures? Are those concern exposed to additional risks and what measures have been adopted in order to protect the rights of children? This takes me back to the 1954 convention because I think that that could assist the state party.
Does the state party consider ratifying that convention which could be useful to the state party in facing these challenges? That's all I have for now chair.
Thank you.
Mercy, Monsieur Gise Thank you, Mr.
Guiset, Co reporter.
Mr.
Derby, another co reporter.
Thank you, Chair.
Good morning.
I would like to begin by congratulating the rapporteur who had a quite thorough presentation of all the concepts here under Section three.
Yesterday, we had some questions and some of those questions are still unanswered, mainly those relating to domestic workers.
More specifically on the inspection of the hiring agencies and monitoring surveying the employers that violate the rights of domestic workers and other workers.
We asked questions about this yesterday and they have not been answered.
There was also the question about workplace accidents which caused a great deal of harm for people, especially in the construction sector.
Now, Chair, this morning under Section three, I have a question on universal access to the Civil Registry of children.
What measures are taken by the state to ensure that all children born on Kuwaiti soil can be granted an administrative document identifying them, whether they be stateless or not, but at the very least, they should have a right to identity.
So are any measures taken to provide guarantees to that right? Also on children still and access to education, we were told that Kuwaiti children have access to public education, which is subsidized and it's high quality with well trained teachers, cutting edge education and that's not the case for other children who are non Kuwaiti and could be in the private sector with lower quality teaching without subsidies, it's quite expensive for someone especially who doesn't have a high standard of living and that can lead to low school attendance rates.
Also, what about access to scholarships for these children? It seems that there's a secret agreement that for any child who would want to overcome this lack of funds for a private sector and they want to have access to a scholarship, they have to sign a secret document where they revoke their Kuwaiti nationality.
In order for them to have that scholarship, they must say that they will not apply for Kuwaiti nationality later on.
If so, then what measures are taken to put an end to that practice? Sir, regarding statelessness, we see that the state party has now ratified the two relevant conventions on statelessness and the statute of statelessness and the reduction of cases of statelessness.
Is there, however, some national level mechanism to at least define the status of some populations could be done or other people who might be without a nationality? Is there a mechanism in place to combat statelessness and granting nationality? Chair, you know that we have two groups of the population stateless or at risk of statelessness in Kuwait.
Historically, there were populations that were there when Kuwait becomes independent.
Now, it has not been proven legally that these people have a link to another state.
So there's a risk of statelessness for them.
What measures have been taken in order to truly determine their status, grant them the stateless status or grant them a Kuwait nationality.
The other group is the group of stateless persons or people at risk of statelessness due to measures taken in 2023 for collective issues with nationality over 40,000 people according to information we have received.
By and large, most of them are women who had Kuwaitian nationality through marriage 20, 30 years ago.
Now because of this administrative measure, they're stripped of that nationality.
Now, the issue is that in some states when a woman marries a person of another nationality, they are of their nationality of origin.
But now that they have no longer Kuwaiti nationality, they become stateless because when they married, they give up their previous nationality.
It's not a case by case procedure done by the state.
This was a collective mass scale measure taken by the state.
What happens to those women who had Kuwaiti nationality and had a bank card and access to services and now they no longer have that? Could there be a collective measure that will allow them to have their dignity restored to have their rights restored as women? What measures are taken for these people, mainly women, but everyone who was affected? Because many people saw their rights trampled upon through this collective measure.
Do you plan on having collective reparation? Perhaps something working with statelessness.
Chair, I'll stop here for the time being.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Day, Mr.
Bassja.
Thank you.
Chair, and I would like to welcome the delegation of Kuwait, since this is the first time I'm taking the floor.
The rapporteur and the co rapporteurs have already asked you very informed questions and no doubt that they will be addressed.
I also would like to say that we call it constructive dialogue and let me just recall it because I also do have some questions, but also we sometimes repeat it that it's not an interrogation.
It's a dialogue that we would like to pursue with you.
Sometimes we would like to ask you to help us understand something.
Now we are having this phenomenon of quite substantive number of persons deprived of nationality and we would really like to understand better the phenomenon and the reasons behind it.
Because you were referring to criteria statistics, but still there is more we want to know.
In fact, what are really the factors and criteria? I know that it's not just one, but if you could disaggregate it for us.
What is the prevailing, the main factors? What are the others? And I don't think we heard about the total number of decisions depriving nationality.
As you know and as we know, there are estimates that it's more than 50,000 closer to 70,000 since 2024.
Perhaps you could address it and what are the statistics for 2026.
Now, let me put it this way.
There is no doubt that laws on nationality and this prerogative is the sovereign part of what the state does, of course.
But also, it's not only about sovereignty and it's not only about even what the law says, it's also about the practice, how the law is implemented.
Because as you would probably No, we go into details.
We don't only look at laws and what does the law say.
We also want to know how the practice looks like.
In this context, help us understand it because what I would like to ask you is, for instance, well, what is exactly the reason behind it? Why deprivation of nationality is considered the proper course of action.
In some cases, of course.
Also, could you please tell us, my noble colleagues already recognized experts on statelessness asked about it, but, if we take Biden population, would you say that the State of Kuwait has any obligations towards them? Now my question is also does this convention Iert our convention, please tell us Do you think it's applicable to Bidun population? Also, that would be my last question, Mr.
Chair.
Generally speaking, would you say that when applying the laws on nationality, when deciding on deprivation or revoking of nationality, do you think international law matters as such? Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Thank you, Mr.
Balajk.
Madam Bock Wilson, you have the floor.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Mr.
Chair, as this is my first time taking the floor since yesterday for this review, I would like to warmly welcome the delegation of Kuwait.
I also wish to note the strong representation of women around the table.
Mr.
Chair, given that this is a dialogue, I would like to revisit two questions concerning nationality and citizenship that in my view, the delegation has not adequately addressed.
The first reports suggests that Kuwait citizenship laws provide very limited opportunities for long term residents and their children, including those born and raised in Kuwait to acquire Kuwaiti nationality.
Concerns have been raised that this situation may contribute to persistent social and economic inequalities.
Again, Mr.
Chair, could the delegation kindly inform the committee whether the government is considering reforms to the nationality framework to include a clear pathway to citizenship or another form of secure long term legal status for residents and their families that will be in line with international human rights principles of non discrimination and equal treatment? And my second and final question, Mr.
Chair, still under the current nationality law.
Reiterate the question concerning Kuwaiti women and the fact that they do not enjoy the same ability as the male counterparts, Kuwaiti men to pass the nationality automatically to the children.
This raises concerns about gender inequality and the discriminatory impact of the law.
Again, could the delegation explain if it intends to address these concerns specifically? If yes, how? Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
Thank you, Madam Oque Wilson.
I will give the floor to Madam Stavrinaki.
Thank you, Chair, and good morning to the esteemed delegation.
Thank you for your answers.
I want to go back to access to health care and also build on thank you many thanks to the task force, the Reporter, and the co reporters for their thorough questions and building on the understanding of vulnerability, this committee has a long experience in identifying these populations.
I heard the answer about the card which gives access to health care.
But we know that this card is not issued or provided so easily to vulnerable people for various reasons, because they are also subjected to structural discrimination.
Let me focus on one group, particularly in which the committee has received information indicating that stateless bedoun women, as we know, and it's not very difficult to assess, face a heightened risk of what has been termed as also sextortion.
So the abuse of entrusted authority by officials to extract sexual favors in exchange for services or benefits within their discretion to grant or withhold.
So we do know that in this case, in this reported case, the officials subjected the woman to extortion when she needed a card, the review card which would give access to health care.
And so we would like to know more to have your responses more like in concrete responses in practice, if there are mechanisms that there are existing mechanisms to report this sexual extortion.
How finally you ensure also that these cards are not only given to a small minority of vulnerable people This is important for us to understand to what extent this framework and policy framework and the legislative framework is applicable efficiently in practice.
Finally, what structural reforms you may envisage based on this situation with the review card issuance to just eliminate these conditions that actually allow in practice the abuse of these vulnerable women.
Finally, how in practice, access to health care is ensured and we've taken into account the vulnerability of those who do not have access in practice in this famous card.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Thank you, Madam Sarinaki.
Madam Laca, you have the floor.
Thank you very much Chairperson.
Good morning to everyone.
Let me join my colleagues in welcoming back, the esteemed delegation of waits.
I have a question, just to follow up to some of the questions that my colleagues raised and this relates to Bidun children's access to education.
We were informed that we have information that public schools do not admit stateless children.
Since most Bedoun children do not have birth registration documents, they are impacted negatively in the sense that they cannot be admitted in public schools and that the Parents who can afford can take them to private schools.
I would like your comment on this.
If you have statistics of Bun children who are admitted in public schools, that will also assist us.
Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you, Madam Lacula.
I will now turn to the delegation for replies to these questions that were raised.
25 minutes.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair, and I thank all the experts for the questions raised.
I give the floor to my colleagues, Mr.
Turkin Ela Maha, Colonel Hussein, then Hishaa and the rest of the delegation to answer the questions.
With regards to losing the nationality, it is linked to cases in accordance with the law when there is a legal situation that leads to the end of the nationality.
By choosing another nationality in addition to the Kuwaiti.
Withdrawing the nationality is included in the law with all the details situation and status of the person, such as falsification, sentencing, higher interest of the state and behavior of the person to undermine the social, economic and political situation of the country.
Withdrawal is exceptional and linked to the situations in accordance with the law, for example, joining the military of another country without authorization, or working with another country in war with Kuwait, or if the person works with an authority that aims at undermining the political, economic or social situation of Kuwait, or if the person is sentenced as a traitor to his or her country, as well as those who includes in the nationality dossier, a child that is not his own.
These measures have no form of racial discrimination.
They are in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the law and the facts put in place by the legislator.
When we speak of statelessness, first, there is no doubt that this is a legal and humanitarian situation that is not acceptable.
We try to reduce these situations to the extent possible since it creates a many legal and administrative challenges for the state and the individual.
Therefore, Kuwait realizes the importance of dealing with nationality in a responsible way, a balanced way, taking into account legal and humanitarian aspects while preserving the sovereign right of the state in accordance with the legislation and international commitments.
Any person deprived of the Kuwaiti nationality returns to his previous nationality in accordance with the laws of the concerned state.
When this is not possible, the competent authorities of the state contact and mediate with the diplomatic mission or consulate of the concerned state, the state of the nationality of the person in order to undertake the necessary legal measures to restore his previous nationality.
If this is not possible, then the state within its competent authorities continues to provide basic services to the person, health, education, and other services, and to take all necessary measures to regulate the legal status of the person in accordance with the national legislations in order to balance the law and preserving the basic rights of individuals.
Those whose nationality is withdrawn sees the link with the state cut.
However, the Kuwaiti Cabinet has issued many laws on the measures and facilities that are given to the persons concerned.
The Kuwaiti state reaffirms that dealing with these situations is not only with regards to the legal status.
However, it includes a number of measures to preserve the living conditions and regulate the situation of the concerned persons and their families in the transitional stage.
With that, the state seeks to take into account the social and humanitarian impact of these decisions.
Many services continue to be provided to these persons in order not to affect their daily life in an unjustified manner.
These measures include continuing work in the public and private sector receiving pension from the pension fund and to receive a civil card.
And that for the wife of Kuwaiti whose nationality was withdrawn.
A education continues and scholarships continue as well as housing, including divorced and without women.
And financial transactions can also continue, as well as residency and other measures and this in order to protect Social stability.
These measures reflect the state's work within a legal framework to strike a balance between the sovereign right of the state and its responsibility in clarifying the legal situation of the person and preserving social stability in accordance with the law and the principle of non discrimination.
Wait is a ready to continue an open, constructive dialogue with the committee.
This reflects the spirit of partnership and mutual respect to continue dialogue and benefit from the best international practices.
This will enhance the legal system and preserve the sovereign right of the state in governing issues related to nationality.
Thank you.
Javier.
Thank you.
With regards to illegal residents, those are not of one racial origin.
They are diverse.
Some go back to several states.
So pretend they deserve the Citi nationality.
Therefore, competent authorities study every category to make sure of their origin.
And if the nationality is revealed through official documents such as passports, some have voluntarily asked officially for a passport.
The state of Kuwait has taken a number of decisions to govern services given to illegal residents.
It's For example, decision four oh nine of 2011, which is a comprehensive framework to govern the services provided to this category.
This decision was an important step in the national policy to deal with this dossier in a balanced way.
It does not only provide administrative organization, but also provides illegal residents with basic services.
As an example, education, health care, civil situations, driving licenses, et cetera The situation of Kuwait has put in place a mechanism for the education of the children of illegal residents that covers the fees in all phases of the education.
The annual budget for that amounts to 6 million dinars.
This is because Kuwait is keen to make sure that education continues for the children and the numbers are 33-36 thousand children.
These are also accepted in higher education.
We are aware that education is an investment in the person is essential.
Interpretation continues in French.
We ensure that people who are in a regular situation receive help, preventive tool, health care if they have a chronic illness, operations, vaccinations pursuant to ministry of health programs, as well as other services on an equal basis with Kuwaiti citizens.
Decision 68 adopting 2011 decision was designed to exempt people in irregular situation from having to pay a fee for the health care services within the medical centers and the hospitals in the country.
And for the purchase of medicines to ensure that they can be given proper health care and take away from them this financial burden of having to pay for their treatment.
The Kuwaiti health system is not limited solely to health care services and solely to social services.
The categories the state has used have been honored, in particular, former combatants, irregular residents who are entitled to a significant pension.
We have 350 former coeants in this category.
Bonuses are awarded to them.
As these bonuses are between 70,000 90,000 dinars.
That is the approach adopted by Kuwait to honor those who have served the state.
The state of Kuwait also provides and help for the elderly, 21,000 amongst those who are regularly residing in Kuwait in geriatric health care centers.
The right to take one's case to court is also guaranteed because this right is enshrined in the Constitution.
It is an essential right.
Article 666 of the Constitution provides that the right to take one's case to the court is guaranteed to all individuals.
Residents in a regular situation can also have access to justice to take their case to court to claim their rights and to benefit from the legal procedures available to them within an independent judicial system based on the rule of law we have registered recently, 1002 complaints.
The state of Kuwait endeavors to issue those official documents required for people to their daily lives in particular, birth certificates, marriage certificates, divorce certificates, succession certificates and other civil registry documents.
People need to guarantee their legal status in the country.
The aim being to preserve the rights and to regulate the legal status of persons driving licenses are issued and renewed.
Same thing for navigation licenses.
Mr.
Rapporteur, the protection of the rights of the child, in our view is an investment in the protection of society as a whole, the rights of children are enshrined in our legislation and policies on the basis of our constitutional and international commitments.
In particular, pursuant to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the CRC, and this attests to our commitment to protecting the best interests of the child as a principal.
We also allow children of residents who are in irregular situation to have access to educational services, to health services, and to an environment favorable to their growth, their stability.
We also give them the civil registry documents they need to protect and claim their rights, to protect their legal and social stability and enable them to have access to equal opportunities.
The state also endeavors to protect and support children with disabilities by providing them with education and health services.
Because people with disabilities are a significant category to be protected, we are party to the CRP, Grodn rights of Persons with Disabilities, the UN CRPD, we provide Two persons with disabilities wheelchairs, auditory devices, and other tools that they need to be properly embedded in society, thanks to which they can exercise their rights on equal basis with citizens.
We believe there are 220 persons with disabilities registered in Kuwait.
The state of Kuwait approaches This case file, beyond providing just services, we guarantee to them effective legal protection.
We regularize the situation of residents in regular situation as soon as we can.
Law 114 adopted in 2024 was adopted specifically for that and pursuant to Article 30 it was amended this law 114, thanks to which there can be an extension of the residency of the person concerned up until 15 years, which attests to the determination of the state to preserve the legal stability of all or the stability of the legal status of all residents in a regular situation who regularize their situation exercise their activities on a daily basis, legally, lawfully, which makes their life easier.
The state of Kuwait is committed to the regularization of their situation.
Without infringing humanitarian aspects.
For those who still have not taken the nationality and who still haven't disclosed their nationality and who are the subject of research and studies, these persons still are entitled to basic services, preserving their dignity, their means of livelihood, their livelihoods because of our policies which respect legal provisions and because of our policies which are based on humanitarian considerations, women who are in an irregular situation.
Are particularly cared for, given the role they play in society.
The state of Kuwait respects the convention to talk about all forms of discrimination against women, CDO, many of whom these women have graduated from university and have been able to join the labor market in a number of different areas.
They teach.
They carry out many different activities in the labor market.
As soon as the quota are filled, these women, be they wives or daughters are given the documents they need to regularize their situation.
Now to turn now to some of the questions you asked about complaints regarding extortion, apply it when someone wants to obtain a personal identification card or document.
On that matter, let me say the following.
All the allegations, you might have heard have been Investigated.
The courts have handed down decisions and people whose rights are infringed saw their rights reestablished.
I would invite the committee to send us any complaint, any allegation which might have escaped our attention.
We'd be very grateful if you could do that.
Thank you.
Regarding naturalized women pursuant to Article 8 of the Nationality Code and whose nationality has been revoked.
We have created the Office for Article 8 Cases within the Ministry of the Interior in December 2024, in fact, we did.
This office started to operate officially in January 2025.
The creation of this office, Article 8 office constitutes a strategic and significant step forward because it incarnates the humanitarian approach.
It guarantees institutional stability to these categories.
We are keen not to leave these women without social protection.
By facilitating to them the administrative formalities they need to perform to have access to their civil rights and access to the basic services, that is, they and their families.
This initiative is not a purely and merely administrative measure, but rather a measure which reflects the determination of the state to protect the social stability of these women and to take into account national laws and humanitarian and social dimensions of the cases concerned.
Thank you.
With regards to the protection of workers, we deal with this issue as being an issue that is a holistic issue.
Domestic workers are entitled to The effective enforcement of laws and implementation degrees and decrees and investigations to ensure that laws are properly informed.
The competent authorities receive the complaints and the grievances of workers.
We have enhanced our complaints channels.
We have a service that was created in June 2026.
We have a government application in connection with that service, thanks to which people can file more expeditious complaints and grievances.
In particular, When these complaints are against recruitment officers, the necessary procedures are embarked upon expeditiously in particular when there are allegations of physical, sexual, or psychological violence acts.
Workers are protected from all acts likely to violate their physical or mental integrity.
As regards workers on construction sites, they are protected from thermal stress from the heat.
Law three adopted in 2026 prohibits construction work in uncovered areas during certain periods of the day, in particular between 11:00 A.M.
And 4:00 P.M.
The complaints and grievances go hand in hand with penalties if perpetration is proven.
We base what you do on regulations that applies to recruitment and the reception of complaints and grievances and the protection of workers happen in parallel with our occupation and regulations that apply on the labor force.
Thank you, Mr.
Rporte.
I would like to react to what was said by one of the members of the committee.
The lack of insurance card does not deprive individuals of health care services, we receive and provide services for all individuals, even for those who do not have this card.
All residents are treated, be they in possession of such a card or not.
These documents.
Are just one administrative stage amongst others for them to put together a file, a patient case file.
Residents in an irregular situation or aliens, whether they have a card or not, have access without discrimination to health care services.
Thank you, with regards to the issuance of official documents for residents in an irregular situation, depending on their legal status.
The civil registry documents are issued in coordination between the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Social Affairs at Administrative Health, the number of documents for civil registry within the Ministry of Justice for marriage certificates in 2021 reached 953, 953 in 2022, 757 marriage certificates in 2023, 733 marriage certificates in 2024, 791 in 2025, 827 marriage certificates.
As for divorce certificates now 2021-520, such certificates were issued in 2022, 507 in 2023, 502, in 2024, 510 and 2025, 500 and also as in 2024, as for succession certificates or acts of succession issued by the authorities in 2021, there were 90 in 2023, there were 92 in 2024, there were 101.
In 2025, there were 93.
Moving on now to general documents issued by the authorities.
In 2021, the authorities issued 6,666 in 2022, 6,025 in 2023, 6,453 in 2024, 6,014 2025, 6,539.
Thank you very much.
The statistics from the Ministry of Education now 2020-2025 for residents in an irregular situation, 33,700 In 2021, 22, 36,070, 2023, 34,666 in 2024, 35,758.
In 2025, 33,749 students registered.
These were students registered through those years.
Thank you very much, Mr.
Chairman.
I'd like to thank experts also.
Thank you, Mr.
Ambassador.
Thank you, delegations, for your responses to the issues raised on the floor.
Now we will break for 5 minutes and we will be back 25.
Thank you.
I I I I.
Welcome back.
We will immediately start for segment four, and I will give the floor to the co rapporteur, Monsieur Derby, for his questions.
You have the floor for Thank you, Chair.
Chair, I'll be speaking about the Convention, domestic law, and the implementation policy.
I will also be addressing the situation of the human rights defenders and access to justice.
Of course, education on human rights in order to combat prejudices and intolerance will also be addressed.
The committee welcomes the fact that the principles of equality and justice are the foundation of Kuwaiti society.
However, some efforts still remain as regards following up on present recommendations from the committee.
The committee had recommended the adoption of legislation on defining racial discrimination in order to align it with the first article 0F the convention.
The committee would like to remind the delegation of how important it is to amend the law and public function in order to abide by the committee's recommendation seeking to prohibit discrimination in hiring civil servants.
The rapporteur also pointed out that the law ought to prohibit any institution inciting hatred Not just individuals who promote hatred, but also institutions, according to paragraph ten of the report, which refers to Article 29 of the Constitution, suggests the general principle of the prohibition of racism enshrines the principle of equality and the respect of dignity by stating that all people are equal before the law in dignity and in law without distinction based on gender, origin, language, or religion.
Could the delegation please provide the committee additional information on the implementation of Decree 19 of 2012, which bans hate speech and specific measures adopted to combat, to prevent hate speech and incitement to violence, as well as xenophobia towards migrants.
According to information that the committee has received, hate messages have been spread hate messages about migrant workers with a view to expediting their expulsion, as well as messages with heinous content and incitement to hatred against migrants.
Such messages are spread on social networks.
Also, some public figures spread these messages.
What has been done in order to combat hate speech, intolerance, and discrimination? What measures were adopted to ensure that all cases of hate speech and hate crimes, including online hate speech, are systematically efficiently and swiftly investigated and that those responsible are given sentences and punishment proportional to their crime and that victims are provided thorough reparation.
Regarding the situation of human right defenders, the committee has been informed that the defenders of the rights of stateless Bedoun communities undergo constant harassment and prison sentences for having documented instances of discrimination.
In 2024, the Committee Against Torture expressed its concern over the arbitrary detention and acts of torture and ill treatment on Bdoun human right defenders.
The committee also noted with concern the excessive use of force during protests organized by the Bun.
Has the state opened up an investigation to corroborate these allegations? Could the delegation please inform the committee? But the staff and the prison population broken down by ethnic origin, nationality, and the other indicators.
What measures are taken by the state party in order to guarantee the protection of Bdons and those defending their rights from any type of intimidation, from threats, harassment, the excessive use of force, and whether there are any independent mechanisms to carry out investigations on violations of human rights against Bdon human right defenders.
How does the state contemplate providing equal access to justice? Recently, experts of special procedures conveyed their interest regarding the 2026 arrests and the arbitrary persecution against Ahmed Shia El Dn.
Seemingly as a retaliation for his work as a journalist and US and Kuwaiti citizens and those of Palestinian origin, who have been stripped of the Kuwaiti nationality.
Experts have pointed out that though Kuwaiti legislation does not authorize double nationality, the time that has been chosen for revoking the nationality, as well as the serelity with which this decision is taken Seems punitive in nature.
The decision to revoke nationality could constitute a violation of the international prohibition of depriving an individual of nationality arbitrarily.
What measures are taken by the state party not to guarantee that revoking a nationality is not done arbitrarily nor used as a means of intimidating human right defenders.
I particularly those defending the rights of migrants, of stateless persons, and the Bidun namely.
Does the Kuwaiti justice system provide interpretation services for those who cannot read and write and what is done to provide greater access to populations living in remote areas? Regarding the defense of the Bidun, militants who defend the rights of stateless population, namely the Bidoun are routinely targeted by the justice system with prison sentences or threats of expulsion.
This segment of the population, which already doesn't have enough documents, is further threatened with expulsion.
One expulsed, what countries are they sent to? Are they nationals of that country of destination? What guarantees are taken in order to ensure that their lives will not be put in danger due to the expulsion? According to our sources, militants such as Mohamed Al Barash had strong prison sentences for having criticized the public policy which was seen as discriminatory against stateless persons.
Does he have a right to an attorney? What are the remedies available to him? Regarding access to justice of migrant workers, could the delegation please inform the committee about the complaint mechanisms that have been made available to them in order to report abuses and violations of their rights? Can the state party provide information on the number of complaints reported by migrant workers, how many investigations were launched following these complaints, and what were the sanctions given to those deemed responsible? Regarding the risks of reprisals that migrant workers may be exposed to whenever they report an abuse, what are the measures that the state party has taken in order to facilitate their access to safe, accessible, and efficient complaint mechanisms in order to protect them from potential reprisals? And what measures have been taken to ensure that all migrant workers have access without discrimination based on their origin or their nationality to the complaints mechanisms? Do they have interpretation services made available to help these migrant workers have access to the justice system? In the report, we find statistics in paragraph 35 and further.
The committee notes, however, that Even though this might be the case, the committee knows with regret that no grounds on racial discrimination as stated by the convention has been established.
How many cases of discrimination have been brought to the courts since the last review of Kuwait? How many of these led to sentences for the defendants? In Paragraph 36 of the report, it says that In collaboration with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, an organization carried out training for judges.
The committee would like to know what was this like? We would like additional information on similar initiatives aimed at the justice system operators.
For example, how many trainings were done on Bidun and on other sectors of the population that can have their right to non discrimination violated.
What measures were taken in order to protect migrant workers who are frequently exposed to very hazardous working conditions and who have to carry out physical labor under very harsh conditions.
Yesterday, we spoke about those who work in inhumane conditions, frequent cases of deaths or workplace accidents, spoke about the repatriation of the remains.
We had questions that were not answered yet.
We look forward to receiving the answers.
Discrimination in sports in Kuwait affects mainly women and stateless minorities in spite of recent efforts on women's sports, what efforts are underway in order to eradicate discrimination in sports? According to information, women's sports has had to face cultural and structural barriers.
What will the state do in order to lift these barriers? Given the exclusion of the population without recognized nationality, well it restricts their access to high level sports activities? What measures are taken in order to improve the situation of stateless persons who would like to become high level athletes? The committee was informed also of the situation of migrant workers.
Significant number of the resident migrant population is excluded from elite or representative sports due to their legal status.
What measures have been taken by the state or what measures does the state plan to take in order to provide a solution to this issue? Thank you very much Chair.
We will stop here for the time being.
DB.
Thank you, Mr.
Derby.
The floor to the delegation to reply to these questions.
You have 20 minutes.
Microphone, please for the speaker.
The interpreter cannot hear the speaker.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
I thank the expert for the questions.
I give the floor to Colonel Hassin then Sud Nahidi Asma and Colonel Hussein again.
Thank you, Mr.
Ambassador.
With regards to what was raised on prisoners, their treatment number and categories, the ministry works on protecting the human rights of the prisoners by abiding by all laws and regulations and human rights principles, as well as the minimum standards for prisoners in accordance with the first UN conference on prevention of crime and treatment of prisoners, all prisoners have the possibility to exercise all their human rights regardless of religion, origin, or anything else.
They are provided with all services without any discrimination on any ground.
All services are provided to prisoners in rehabilitation centers on a continuous basis.
The Ministry of Interior takes all the measures in order to make sure there is no discrimination by its officials.
Prisoners have the right to submit complaints in case of any abuse with regards to the current number of prisoners, its and non quits, 6,235 prisoners.
Of course, that is in the central prison, the public prison, and the female prison.
With regards to guarantees, Kuwait works on protecting the human rights of prisoners by abiding by a mentioneded laws and regulations.
Prisoners are categorized in accordance with Article 25 of the law, two categories, A and B.
Category A includes preventive detention and simple sentences.
They uh or with regards to debt.
Category B are sentenced with labor.
They have special wings in the prison in accordance with the law.
Prisoners are categorized according also to the age and duration of sentence and possibility of rehabilitation in accordance with the main principles of human rights.
To make sure there is no impunity in case of breach of human rights, the law is implementable La number 26 of 1962, each prison has a register of complaints.
Every prisoner has the right to submit an oral or written complaint in order for the competent authorities to take the necessary measures to ensure there is no impunity and no abuse of human rights inside rehabilitation centers.
As for the human rights defenders, I would like to point out that Kuwait is a pioneer state in the field of human rights.
We are keen on providing an environment that is conducive to the protection of human rights and the rule of law.
We have taken many measures in this field to guarantee human dignity, basic freedoms, and to make sure nobody is subjected to any form of torture or threat and that through adhering to a large number of treaties.
Our law prevents such crimes.
A number of legislative and administrative measures are taken by the state to protect the rights of defenders.
Of course, the constitutional guarantees, the Constitution protects basic rights, in addition to Kuwait's commitment to a large number of international and regional agreements.
Finally, the receipt of complaints.
Competent authorities in Kuwait, including control and judicial mechanisms, have the necessary measures to receive complaints and investigate them.
This guarantees the right of individuals to legal protection.
With regards to human rights defenders, there's a procedure, a mechanism for complaints.
Those who wish to submit a complaint can do so in person.
Or through a person day mandate or through online applications, the complaint is reviewed carefully and Based on the review, the complaint is referred to the Human Rights Department and the relevant department of the Ministry of Interior.
This was created in 2025.
It reviews all complaints, investigates them, and submits reports in order to take the measures needed for referral to the public prosecutor or the General Directorate for investigation.
Through this department, the ministry did not receive any complaint since its creation from defenders.
The protection of human rights defenders in Kuwait is based on a comprehensive system, including constitutional guarantees, the independence of the judiciary, international treatments, and competent authorities.
In addition, of course, to the diffusion of a culture of human rights.
The state works on developing the system.
Continuously to achieve a balance between the protection of rights and freedom and protecting public order and the rule of law.
Thank you.
I would like to thank the expert for the question on amending legislation and the law on combating discrimination quite has an approach that integrates equality and non discrimination in all sectors.
It's in the Constitution and a number of relevant legislations as was mentioned.
At the same time, the legislative system undergoes at continuous control and revision.
In this context, the Minister of Justice has launched a comprehensive plan to update legislation in accordance with international and national developments and to make sure legislations abide by international commitments.
The second phase of this plan led to the review of 250 laws, which is about 25% of applicable law.
The third phase will refer to 150 laws.
The total revision will be of about 400 laws, which is about 40% of the legislation and that by December 2027, the comprehensive reform is the appropriate framework to look into all the matters of legislation, including a Laws on discrimination and integrating direct and indirect discrimination in accordance with Article 1 of the Convention as for access to justice.
I would like to reaffirm that the pillar of the judiciary in Kuwait is guaranteeing the right To access justice is guaranteed for all, and there is no interference, and that in accordance with the Constitution, based on these guarantees, courts are open before all on an equal basis, and every individual has access to justice, requesting remedy in accordance with the law.
And that for also moral tort, practically, the Ministry of Interior facilitates access to justice through many services, especially interpretation for those who do not speak Arabic, as well as legal assistance.
We also develop legal digital services and a system for implementing sentences in order for rights holders to effectively enjoy their rights.
We have also legal statistics on human rights in order to provide the necessary data and indicators.
In our national report, you will find the data and statistics on legal assistance and requests for interpretation categorized by nationality and language As well as data on hate crimes.
Thank you.
We thank the expert, as we mentioned previously, with regards to measures related to hate crimes, Decree 19 is on the protection of national unity, does not include a definition of hate crime, the legislature nevertheless seeks to criminalize such acts in order to also have a degree of flexibility to deal with these acts.
In the context of complaints, article for waves, could the speaker kindly read at a speed that allows for interpretation? At this speed, interpretation is impossible.
Stan in the Hakkaa Mafule Cafe.
The Constitution of Kuwait guarantees access to justice to all.
Each person can resort to the judiciary in accordance with the law and without any discrimination.
This constitutional guarantee abides by Kuwait's commitments in accordance with CRD, in order to make sure that access to justice is on the basis of equality for all persons.
In this context, the general prosecutor established an office for complaints to receive them, investigate them, and refer them in order to take the necessary legal measures.
With regards to statistics, the total number of complaints 2020-2026, 367 cases, including 377 accused there.
The cases were not received, 189 were referred to the court, which led to 169 convictions.
The sentences included jail time, fines, and 11 were declared innocent.
As for Ahmed Shabidn, the withdrawal of nationality was done in accordance with Article 11 of the Emiri decree number 15 of A and Martin Therefore, in accordance with the law, the sentence did not refer to the withdrawal or deprivation of nationality.
This was not a result of a crime or a reaction thereto, but an independent procedure.
It is not linked at all with this accusation.
As for the basis for the withdrawal of the nationality of this journalist, I give the floor to my colleagues from the Ministry of Interior.
Din, the Department for Nationality and Passports in Kuwait has confirmed that this individual was or rather voluntarily acquired American US nationality.
He used his American US passport.
Which amounts to him having dual nationality and this is in violation of Article 11 of Decree 15 adopted in 1959 on the nationality code, which stipulates that any Kuwaiti national will lose his or her nationality if he or she deliberately chooses another nationality.
The High committee then thus decided to withdraw his Kuwaiti nationality.
With regards now to the conditions of his detention within the penitentiary institution, namely the public prison.
This individual was incarcerated on the 7th of March 2026 on charges of propagation of false information, harming the best interests of the nation.
This is the nature of the charge on the 23rd of April 2026, he was released.
During his police custody, he received medical treatment, full medical care, Subsequent to which before he served his sentence, he was given a proper medical examination.
All the medical examinations were performed in an orderly fashion.
He's also received vaccinations against contagious communicable diseases.
He informed medical personnel that he had asthma and for that he received the appropriate medication.
He also was seen by a dermatologist following an allergy.
He was subject to on the 25th of March 2026, he was seen by the doctor of the prison and this because he had a cold.
He then was seen by an ENT, the nose and throat specialist, He had no chronic disease while he was in prison.
Thank you.
With regards to the number of complaints and measures adopted to protect workers, the state of Kuwait has a integrated architecture to promote their rights.
The public authority in charge of labor force plays a significant role In particular, it receives and processes complaints filed by domestic workers 2020-2026.
33,141 complaints were received.
16,685 complaints were satisfactorily dealt with 3,000 plus was sent back to the courts because an amicable settlement was not possible.
In Kuwait, there are several complaints mechanisms which are not limited to just limited to electronic platforms interpretation services provided.
The application is available in English and also as well as Arabic.
People can also find the identity of the employer on the electronic system.
The complaints are confidential and no one is subject to discrimination.
Domestic workers can turn to competent authorities to claim their rights if a worker dies in coordination with the competitive authorities, an investigation is launched to ascertain the causes of the death and to manage matters pertaining to succession.
All the procedures and all the stages are guaranteed to ensure that the rights of workers are protected and the rights to remedy are protected also.
As regards interpretation services and legal aid, the number of interpreters mobilized within the courts over the last three years has varied 15-18 interpreters providing interpretation in Singhaese, Hindu, du, Nepalese, Chinese, Bangladeshi, Turkish, Filipino, Iranian, Spanish, Ethiopian, French, Russian, as well as some Omani and Guinean dialects.
5,934 interpretation services instances of interpret services were provided in 2023 and 2024, 6,449.
It being understood that interpreters, in fact, interpreters are selected by the complainants themselves.
One cannot impose an interpreter upon a complainant.
Interpretation in sign language is also available in courts and in the Ministry of Justice.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
As regards women in an irregular situation and sporting activities.
The women are allowed to carry out or to practice sport activities.
Sports is available are available to each and everyone without exception.
If you have any cases of women who have been prevented from engaging in sporting activities, we'd be very grateful if you could send them to us.
Thank you very much.
All Mjalif Moving on now to The next topic, we need to have an institutional legal framework to respond to criminal individual offenses, to deal with individual offenses.
Now, our constitutional legal and institutional commitment stems from the Kuwaiti Constitution itself, which embodies guarantees in particular Article 29, which guarantees equality of all in dignity and duties and in rights without any distinction on the grounds of sex, religion, language, et cetera Article 36 provides for freedom of opinion and the exercise of that right orally or in written form.
Constantly, we have modernized our media, La 17 in 2020, was enacted, which got rid of censorship for publication and now there is freedom of publication, the transmission of knowledge and dissemination of knowledge freely in the country.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman, as the head of delegation.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, members of the committee.
For the replies.
I will open the floor now for the follow up questions by the country task force and also the other members of the committee.
We have 15 minutes on this occasion and the floor is open.
Mr.
Clamani, you have the c.
Much appreciated, Mr.
Chairman.
Very briefly, two follow up questions from me.
First, on the impact of the suspension of the National Assembly under certain constitutional provisions since May 2024 and on the protection of the rights guaranteed by the convention.
My question is this lack of parliamentary oversight.
How does it affect the adoption of bills designed to protect human rights and bills designed to combat racial discrimination.
That was number two.
We've just seen in the press in Kuwait the following the Ministry of Health has published a mechanism regulating biological treatment A decision applying to all hospitals and specialized medical centers under the authority of the Ministry of Health, but this mechanism is only for Kuwaiti citizens.
Could you tell us more about this if you have any information? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
I would like to thank the delegation for the information communicated to us this morning.
But we would have a few points about which you would like clarification.
The prison population, first of all, 6,600 prisoners are incarcerated in the country, according to the delegation.
Could we be told more about the non nationals incarcerated? What is the ratio of non nationals to nationals in the prison population of the country.
Human rights defenders next.
Yes, you did say that you have mechanisms.
But would the state be inclined today to adopt a specific law to protect them because more and more complaints about human human rights defenders for the Bids have been complaints have been reaching us.
Next, access to justice.
How many cases In how many cases has the surge been invoked in Kuwaiti courts? Going back to the revocation of nationality.
Now, you explained the case of the journalists, very grateful for that.
The, the Nationality code does not allow for dual nationality and that has even more negative impacts on women who got nationality through marriage because they had to give up their original nationality.
What measures are planned to restore collectively on a large scale? We ran the last their nationality because these women lost on a large scale their nationality.
How are you going to reverse that? Human rights education next, I forgot to mention it in my first intervention.
Paragraph one oh one of your report, you say that you provide scholarships to children who are in irregular situation and therefore they can continue studying at university and don't have to leave the school after primary and secondary.
So All students with good results are admitted to university.
That's a royal decree.
Could you give us figures and the ratio of these students to regular students? How about the students who have not had good results? What happens to them, that is irregular students? The lack of legal stability for these children affects their academic success.
What are you going to do to ensure that these people do not excel academically on an equal basis? Thank you, Mr.
Deby as their Mr.
Gisi, you have the floor.
Much obliged, Mr.
Chairman.
I'd like to thank the delegation also for the second round.
Admittedly, much has been made of the Labor Code and the fact that this system focuses much more on the employers than the employees.
I have a specific question in connection with Mr.
Debbie's question.
Could you give us specific examples where employers were Complained about by employees and a conviction was secured.
Precise examples if we could.
Another case that the expulsion of Madame Salwa Saad at the time from Kuwait.
Much relayed in the press this lady was expelled because we are told that she criticized the state policy on social media.
Could you tell us more about this lady.
Miss Sayed is her name.
It's just a comment I wanted to make.
My specific question is complaints against employers.
Are there any examples of employers being found in breach of their obligations when a complaint was filed by employees? But once again, thank you very much to the delegation for the answers provided and for the Dogs.
Thank you, Mr.
Gus as the Chairman, Madam you have the floor.
Thank you, Chair.
Greetings from me to the delegation for the second day of the review of Kuwait.
Very briefly, I would like to circle back to the justice system.
I wanted to ask the first question during the first round, but time did not allow me to do so.
Three speakers raised the issue, but the First speaker who talked about access to justice during the first round of questions, gave a detail which really struck me.
Miss struck me because I think she said that access to justice is free, unconditional for all aliens in a regular situation.
I might have misunderstood, but I heard regular.
If that is the case, does that mean that aliens in an irregular situation, sometimes called as undocumented, have access to justice and if those people complain about the fact that their rights have been violated, is there not a risk that these people be expelled because the police intervening will find that these people do not have documents, therefore are irregular, therefore can be expelled? Could you clarify this matter because If the texts say that access to justice is free, unconditional, et cetera, at the same time, we know there are situations in which people deemed to be undocumented.
To use the term undocumented and therefore are afraid to appear before the authorities because they fear the consequences, then we have a problem.
Another question I have, it's not a follow up question, it's a new question and it has to do with the independence of the judiciary itself.
According to certain sources, we've heard that there is a significant number of foreign judges who preside over courts in Kuwait, specifically Egyptians, many of whom are recruited on short term contracts renewable by the government, which the government can renewte.
Now, This instability of the employment of these foreign nationality judges, does it not weaken the independence and impartiality of the justice system? Thank you.
May Thank you.
Mobil, I see your flag still up? Yes, Chair.
Thank you.
Just to follow up.
On the rapporteur's questions, Mr.
Clemsani, he talked about paraary oversight.
Now we know that since the reforms, the parliament has been dissolved and this for two years earlier on delegation said that 400 laws are in the legislative pipeline awaiting enactment.
How does the country behave when an assembly has been dissolved and 400 laws need to be adopted before 2027.
That's only four months away.
How is the state intending to realistically carry out these reforms in such a short period of time? Since 2024, also, no documents have been issued to bedoons and stateless persons.
These people need these documents to be identified and allow them to freely circulate, register in schools, carry out daily civil activities.
What is being done to facilitate access to them, which will restore a minimum of dignity to them.
Thank you, Chair Abby.
The floor is still open for any member who would like to raise a question on the segment.
I see none, so I'll give the floor to the delegation for replies to the follow up questions.
We can use the 5 minutes you can use the 5 minutes.
Thank you, Mr.
Chairman, Sukarsider.
Thank you.
Doctor Him first, then Colonel Hussein, Colonel Turki, Abdallah, then Badra Kadri, Nyala, and then Lula.
Thank you, Rapporteur.
To answer your question put to us about the journalist and medical treatment he received.
All prisoners are entitled to the treatment they need under the 1999 Law one, Article 4 of that 1999 law number one, which provides that medical treatment must be dispensed to prisoners, be they laboratory services, consultation by doctor operations with the exception of aesthetic operations, emergency treatment, dentist treatment, and the implementation text published in the official gazette, that text, designed to implement the law refers to treatment that still have not been provided on the grant, namely genetic treatment.
Human rights defenders now on that particular topic, in particular, human rights defenders who defend the rights of people who reside unlawfully or an irregular situation in Kuwait.
The question was, how does the Ministry of the Interior interact with these human rights defenders? Well, may I explain that the law provides that? The right to freedom of expression as it exists, but it is regulated by a number of restrictions.
In other words, this right cannot be abused in such a way that the interests of creative society are jeopardized, which means that the right to freedom of expression must not be exercised in a way that it infringes upon the rights of others and in a way that infringes upon public order.
In order to be involved in demonstrations, previously, permits need to be applied for and obtained.
These are preventive measures to prevent any disruption, disorder and to enable a competent authorities to take the appropriate measures required to guarantee public order and to prevent any vandalism, damage, crime or offense decree law, 265 1999 on public demonstrations, public gatherings regulates these events there are the following checks carried out.
Number one, in order to organize a public meeting or to convene a public event, public demonstration, one needs to secure a permit five days before the holding of that meeting.
Number two, the person in organizing must secure a permit from the Ministry of the Interior.
Number three, no one can be involved in a public gathering whilst armed, even if the person concerned is authorized to bear that arm.
There also needs to be an official body that safeguards the implementation of law and which intervenes and intervenes when the law has been broken and the competent body needs to be able to resort to the intervention of the police force.
Thank you very much.
Moving on now to The following.
Any person who has lost their nationality automatically recovers their original nationality.
This happens pursuant to the laws and conditions in force in the country of origin of the person concerned, the competent authorities of the state party, Kuwait.
Can intervene and play the role of mediators between the authorities in the consulate or the embassy of the person whose nationality has been withdrawn or revoked, but who still enjoys their nationality of origin or rather so that that person can recover their original nationality.
If no solution can be found through these channels, the state party through its competent institutions, that is, continues to provide those basic services to the people whose nationalities been revoked so that they can have access to health services and others pursuant to administrative and legal procedures.
We also take into consideration the humanitarian aspect of each case in order to enforce the laws and safeguard the rights of individuals in general.
The state of Kuwait has strived constantly to make efforts and by contacting states of origin to restore the nationality to those people who've lost their Kuwaiti nationality.
The overall aim is to ensure that there are no one deprived of the right to education, health, et cetera These provision of the services must not be interrupted until the nationality has been restored.
Another question was asked after the revocation of miss Salwan Sawids nationality, who is the spouse of a Kuwaiti national.
Miss Sayed had been involved in on Twitter on former Twitter on X, she posted in a way that was contrary to the law.
She broke the law by posting on X.
She was expelled, but received no custodial sentence before her expulsion.
Thank you.
I custodial facilities and other detention facilities in Kuwait, a number of measures are taken.
Let me list these particularly for people with disabilities.
We have special cells for people who have disabilities within the Kuwaiti custodial facilities.
Nine such cells are for women who have special needs.
These cells are specially fitted to host these people with special needs in central prison 16 and prison six and women's prison number four, There are also interpreters for non Kuwaiti inmates housed in these penitenaries.
These inmates are able to communicate without being hindered.
The embassies and the Local consulates representatives can visit the alien inmates to verify their detention conditions.
Now, detention conditions for non Kuwaitis and Kuwaitis.
In the central prison, there are 1,846 Kuwaitis and 2,184 non Kuwaitis.
In the public prisons, there are 1,164 Kuwaitis and just over 1,000 non Kuitis In the women prisons, there are 122 Kuwaiti women.
190 non Kuwaiti they're the figures, the ratio of the prison population A versus nationals.
Kuwait and Kuwait remains convinced that behind development lies human initiative and devotes much importance to training programs on the basis of its 2035 development program, which echoes the UN 2030 development agenda in the light of our voluntary commitment undertaken when we acceded to the Human Rights Council 2024, 2026 and together with the approval of OHCHR, we have drawn advantage of our relationship with OHHR to launch technical joint programs, including the 2027 2028 technical program organized between us and them, which will be implemented following a an exploratory mission which will be organized with Kuwaiti stakeholders, thanks to which we will be able to organize human rights training programs targeting different groups.
Kuwait periodically, regularly cooperates with our strategic partners, including the Committee of Economic and Social Cultural rights for Asia, that is, as well as UNODC, that is the Drugs and Crime Office based in Vienna, as well as UNICEF and other UN specialized agencies, thanks to a number of different very training programs which embody the provisions of the conventions which Kuwait has signed and ratified.
Now, to translate these commitments into reality on the ground, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has trained a specific group of experts, in fact, 24 experts for them to organize awareness raising activities for human rights issues and human rights education issues for all national stakeholders.
This is training for the drafting of national reports, which the country then submits to treaty bodies and non treaty bodies of the United Nations.
Also, a human rights based approach was created to combat trafficking in persons and human trafficking and also to help people to cater for people with disabilities in public policies, also involve more women and children in STEM activities in the diplomatic movements.
We also organized human rights training for diplomats and this within the Alsaba Center.
Pedagogical content has been posted on the website, the relevant website fulfilling that purpose, and the Kuwaiti Center for Legal and Judicial Studies for 2022, 2026 has organized 23 symposia and workshops covering all of these syllabuses, including one devoted to the implementation of international conventions and treaties and the transposition in domestic law, combating discrimination, dissemination of a culture of tolerance.
355 people benefited from these training programs.
I'm referring here to judges at different instances as well as prosecutors, people working for the national related offices.
Lastly, we would like to reiterate that Kuwait is continuing these efforts, providing specialized training in order to raise the general knowledge about international instruments among all our state officials.
Thank you.
We're convinced that the fight against discrimination has to go through legislation, but also through other means, which is why we have tried to promote awareness raising among the general public.
For 2020 to 2026, we set up over 508 training programs for all staff members of various ministries, addressing the goals of the convention.
For example, the ethics journalism, ethics for civil servants, combating misinformation, online safety, children's rights, property rights, intellectual property, good governance, AI in the press and the media, as well as responsible communication online.
Civil Servants of various ministries also benefited from foreign training, working with the BBC and CNN.
As well as the Arab Radio Union, which is a way of becoming familiar with the best practices based on integrity.
Additionally, the Ministry of Information launched some awareness raising programs to spread the culture of human rights and to promote the principles of tolerance, of living well together, of combating hatred.
We do this through traditional and online media hand in hand with interested national partners.
I Additionally, the State of Kuwait, through the Ministry for Information, has conveyed information to anyone residing in its territory through the official channels in Arabic, English, and other languages such as Farsi, Udu and Filipino, or Tagalic.
This is done through efforts of the Ministry of Information through Al-Jazirah, CNBC, Arab Networks, TRT tourist Network, and ESPN, which is a sports network.
Dialogue and communication, our foundational principle in the three most recent laws on organizing and providing information.
We have had some workshops with legal experts and members of the media, which is proof of our conviction to abide by the principle of full participation of all stakeholders when drafting and approving laws.
This is an ongoing commitment.
It is a commitment to promote tolerance, to invest in spreading information and promoting the dignity of all individuals.
We will continue to develop new legislation in cooperation with local, national and international partners as per the CR Convention.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Unrestricted access to justice.
By this, I mean that we need to have a plaintiff or a defendant, person who's defending a claim.
It could be the wife of someone who is inheriting or someone who's asking for a pension, and these people have access to justice without conditions.
Regarding the documents that are given to irregular people or people in a regular situation, everything is done to provide access to the basic services and the official documents and keeping to ministerial decree, which requires that these agencies, including the central body, to provide this document.
Then the state has provided health cards to these people in an irregular situation.
To ensure that they benefit from the ideal standard of living conditions.
Regarding access to justice, this right is provided to all people in Kuwaiti territory, whether they are regular or regular residents.
1,100 cases have been opened, 549 before a court of Kation 121 rulings were in favor of the central agency, 460 of them on appeal, 547 in favor of the central body and 13 in favor of irregular people.
99 cases are still in abeyance being considered by the justice system.
There was a question as well about human right defenders.
The freedom of expression, freedom of opinion is governed by the Constitution.
In order to ensure that this law is respected, our Constitution says that freedom of opinion and expression are guaranteed and that all people have the right to express their opinion.
Legislators have enshrined this freedom.
Now, this must be done without it affecting other people, without it affecting state security.
The goal is not to trample upon that, but simply to frame it so as to ensure that the public order is preserved.
Criminal prosecution can be brought in to the contrary.
An accused has access to an attorney, they can appeal, and this is covered by the criminal code.
Human right defenders and people using social networks can also benefit from that right as provided by the Constitution as long as this does not impact public order or other people's freedom.
Prosecution's office played an important role in that case.
The general prosecutor adopted rescission 34 of 2024 in order to govern the body that receives the complaints on human rights and on violations of human rights, and to consider these reports, and then to take the necessary legal measures.
Thank you.
Thank you.
We thank the experts.
Right now, we do not have a detailed statistics on the number of cases where the convention was invoked.
Nevertheless, the convention is an integral part of the legal system in accordance with Article 70.
Nothing prevents invoking the convention when applicable.
The Kuwaiti Judiciary has previously invoked international treaties, and we have provided an example.
On that.
As for cases of discrimination or incitement to hatred, the courts base themselves on the legislations that are applicable and that in accordance with the crimes and sanctions stipulated for in the court, therefore, not invoking the convention directly does not mean it is not part of the legal system.
The national legislations as per our report, guarantee all the provisions of the convention.
Some non Kuwaiti judges does not change the independence of the judiciary.
All the judiciary members are sovereign in their work.
No interference can be made.
At the same time, we have a clear plan of action.
The Minister of Justice has declared the end of the first stage, and that in the context of the cotization of the system The plan of action wishes to complete the plan by October 2031.
Resorting to non Kuwaiti judges is a transitional measure.
It does not mean any dependence or lack of independence.
At the same time, we continue training and complete tization.
Thank you.
Say it.
Thank you to the expert.
Quite reiterates its commitment to the principle of non discrimination as perra.
We believe that guaranteeing the rights of persons with disabilities is part of our commitment in accordance with the general Recommendation 32 of the committee since Article 1 covers the different forms of discrimination.
Persons with disabilities are included in guaranteeing nondiscrimination.
At the legislative and institutional level, we created the higher Committee for Rights of persons with disabilities.
The Technical Committee is in its last stages of reviewing law number eight of 2010 on the rights of persons with disabilities, including expanding the coverage of the law.
In the context of the continuation unjust aggression by Iran against Kuwait, our state has put in place an emergency plan to care for those with disabilities.
And sirens are also circulated through necessary digital platforms to be accessible to those with auditory disabilities and For economic empowerment, Kuwait has inclusive recruitment, which includes persons with disabilities, no less than 4% and that in accordance with the action plan for all economic sectors.
The small and medium enterprises are also included in the plan.
The initiative An initiative was launched in 2018, 2026 has seen a large number of graduates, and the total number is 1,481.
In conclusion, we reiterate that we will continue working on enhancing the rights of persons with disabilities without any discrimination.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair, and I thank the experts.
Thank you, Mr.
Ambassador.
Thank you, delegation, for all the information that you have provided.
I will now immediately give the floor to Madame Claca, our follow up rapporteur.
You have the floor, Madam.
Thank you very much, Chairperson.
Let me begin by thanking the state party for submitting the follow up report to the concluding observations in 2020.
Eight.
So this time around, as in the past, the concluding observations that we're going to be adopting after this dialogue will once again contain a paragraph on follow up.
In that paragraph, we're going to identify the recommendations that you will have to implement within one year of receiving the concluding observations and submit a report within one year.
On the measures that you will have taken to implement the recommendations in the follow up record.
So once again, we are requesting you to oblige us as you did in 2018 and submit to us the follow up report within one year after receiving the concluding observations.
Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Madam kula.
We may have another option.
We may have another option for the follow up report submission because we have to discuss something in this plenary, but we will expect the follow up report.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Mr.
Tmsani, our Reeer, you have the floor for your concluding final remarks.
Sir.
Thank you, Your Excellency head of delegation, members of the distinguished delegation.
I would like in turn to thank the ambassador and the delegation for their effective participation and for the spirit of this dialogue in the past two days.
We especially appreciate the openness of the delegation with our questions.
We hope this will enhance the efforts made and continue facing current challenges.
I also thank the task force, especially Mr.
Gise and Mr.
Ravali, the two rapporteurs and we have worked with them in continuous cooperation, which has allowed us to set the methodology of this dialogue.
I also thank all those who contributed to this dialogue, especially CSOs.
And we highly appreciate their contribution.
This process was not easy at all, considering the particular context and the amount of information that was analyzed.
Very important matters were taken into consideration with regards to implementing SRD in Kuwait.
This allowed to deal with matters that deal with enhancing and protecting human rights in Kuwait.
We highly appreciate the openness of the members of the delegation and the clarifications they provided with regards to legislative and institutional developments.
The committee looks forward to more information and particular data on matters raised during the dialogue, and we shall deal with them objectively in the concluding observations.
We believe that this dialogue is a continuation of cooperation with Kuwait.
The observations and recommendations will no doubt be implemented in order to promote the rights of all persons in Kuwait without any discrimination.
I reiterate my gratitude to the delegation and to the members of the committee.
We wish Kuwait all success.
Thank you, Mr.
Tlemsani.
I'll give the floor to you now, Mr.
Head of delegation, Your Excellency, Ambassador, for your final remarks.
Thank you, Mr.
Chair.
Distinguished members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen.
As we conclude this dialogue, I wish on behalf of CA to express our thanks and appreciation to the chair, the country rapporteur, and the distinguished members of the committee for their questions and observations and for the transparent and engaging discussions.
We also thank the Secretariat of the committee for its efforts in preparing for this review and facilitating it.
This dialogue has enabled the delegation of Kuwait to present developments in the national framework since the submission of the report and to provide clarifications concerning the constitutional legislative and institutional framework for combating racial discrimination, protecting national unity, safeguarding freedom of freedom, and ensuring access to justice.
It has also provided an opportunity to explain matters related to contracted and domestic workers, combating trafficking in persons, healthcare, empowerment of women, protection of persons with disabilities and children.
While the State of Kuwait affirms that the progress achieved is part of a continuing process, it recognizes that protecting rights and advancing quality is a cumulative effort that requires modernization, strengthening of capacity, greater awareness, and access to effective remedies.
We will continue to build on our achievements and addressing any challenges, and we will draw upon relevant international experience and good practices.
In this regard, we look forward.
To the committee's concluding observations reflecting the full range of information provided by the delegation during the dialogue and that its recommendations will be objective, balanced, and implementable and will take into account the state's constitutional and legal framework and will remain closely connected to the professions of the convention, enhancing their value and effectiveness amid the exceptional security circumstances it is currently facing, Kuwait further reaffirms its unwavering commitment to its international obligations, protecting citizens and residents and providing them with services without discrimination, grounded in the conviction that human dignity and the rule of law are steadfast foundations in times of stability and crisis alike.
Mr.
Chair, we conclude this dialogue with renewed determination to continue our cooperation with your distinguished committee and all UN human rights mechanisms and to translate cooperation into practical national measures that advance equality and protect human dignity.
We look forward to continuing and strengthening our constructive cooperation grounded in dialogue, mutual respect, and objectivity.
I return my thanks to the members of the committee, its Secretariat, and the members of the delegation for their efforts, and we wish the committee every success in the discharge of its mandate.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you, Mr.
Ambassador, head of delegation.
I thank you and the delegation for the open and productive dialogue that we have witnessed and all the replies that you have provided for the peers and the members that will be taken into consideration in full objectivity when we are going to draft the concluding observations.
You will receive the conclting observations after adoption, and just to remind you that if you think there are certain further information that would be of use for the drafting of the concluding observations for which you did not have the chance to provide that information to the committee, you have 48 hours to bring it to the attention of our Secretariat and then they also will be taken into consideration.
I would like to commend Mr.
Ambassador, your state party, Kuwait, for being punctual in your contribution to the UN budget.
I see the name of your country in the honor roll.
You are among the very first to have fully contributed to the regular budget of the UN.
We appreciate this very much in these times of trouble for the United Nations, which has very negatively affected the OHCHR and also all the treaty bodies.
It is encouraging to hear from you that you will continue to support and to cooperate in goodwill with the committees.
I would kindly ask also to bring this issue up in your bilateral meetings with other states parties It is very important that the states support mechanisms that they have created.
We are here not to criticize states parties.
And not judge as Mr.
Balsjk has already said, but to help the state parties to conform with the obligations that they have taken upon by signing and ratifying those conventions.
For whatever reasons, if we cannot monitor properly, It is our failure, but not because of something we have done wrong, but it would be the failure of the states parties.
So please keep this in mind.
Again, thank you very much for these two days of actually well designed dialogue.
Thank you.
With this, I will declare the 3,228 meeting closed.
Thank you.
Just to remind the colleagues to check the program of work for the lunchtime private meeting with a number of NGOs.
Thank you again for excellenc the delegation.