The Bedoons of Kuwait: "citizens Without Citizenship"Human Rights Watch, 1995 - 105 من الصفحات Kuwait practices a system of institutionalized discrimination against its residents known as Bedoons, longtime inhabitants who have been denied Kuwaiti citizenship and are now being rendered stateless. Barred from employment, denied education for their children, restricted in their movements, and living under the constant threat of arbitrary arrest and deportation, Bedoons are a community of "have nots" in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. At the same time, tens of thousands of Bedoons who fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation have been barred from returning to their country. After decades of treating Bedoons as citizens and repeatedly promising to confer formal citizenship on them, the Kuwaiti government reversed its practice and declared them illegal residents of the only country they have ever known. Although the policy was adopted before the Iraqi invasion, it has intensified since the Kuwaiti government was restored to power following the victory of the Desert Storm military campaign. |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 92 - No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.
الصفحة 105 - States Parties shall respect and ensure the rights set forth in the present Convention to each child within their jurisdiction without discrimination of any kind, irrespective of the child's or his or her parent's or legal guardian's race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin, property, disability birth or other status.
الصفحة 94 - Convention may be summarized as follows: a Contracting State shall grant its nationality to a person born in its territory who would otherwise be stateless.
الصفحة 96 - 5| 38. It follows from what has been said above that in order to arrive at a satisfactory interpretation of the right to nationality, as embodied in Article 20 of the Convention, it will be necessary to reconcile the principle that the conferral and regulation of nationality fall within the jurisdiction of the State, that is, they are matters to be determined by the domestic law of the State, with the further principle that international law imposes certain limits on the State's power, which limits...
الصفحة 94 - STATELESS PERSON" 1. For the purpose of this Convention, the term "stateless person" means a person who is not considered as a national by any State under the operation of its law.
الصفحة 90 - ... shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order...
الصفحة 93 - Australian law, would be covered by the concept of "unreasonableness." Furthermore, the Human Rights Committee, in its General Comment on article 17, states that the "concept of arbitrariness is intended to guarantee that even interference provided for by law should be in accordance with the provisions, aims and objectives of the [Covenant] and should be ... reasonable in the particular circumstances.
الصفحة 99 - ... acquire, change or retain their nationality. They shall ensure in particular that neither marriage to an alien nor change of nationality by the husband during marriage shall automatically change the nationality of the wife, render her stateless or force upon her the nationality of the husband. 2. States Parties shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the nationality of their children.
الصفحة 94 - Each State Party shall provide in its internal law for its nationality to be acquired by children born on its territory who do not acquire at birth another nationality. Such nationality shall be granted: a at birth ex lege, or b subsequently, to children who remained stateless, upon an application being lodged with the appropriate authority, by or on behalf of the child concerned, in the manner prescribed by the internal law of the State Party. Such an application may be made subject to the lawful...