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Human Rights in the Middle East Region: 2024 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights

  • Kuwait
  • Bahrain
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Lebanon
  • MENA
  • Oman
  • Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • UAE
  • Yemen
  • 24/03/2025

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)

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Amendments to Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 10/02/2025

Download Report Highlights Kuwaiti authorities have recently made amendments to the Nationality Law and started a massive revocation of nationalities from

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Amendments to Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 10/02/2025

Today, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) released a report entitled, “Amendments to Kuwaiti Nationality Law pose serious threats to human rights”. In the

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Blogger Salman Al-Khalidi extradited from Iraq to Kuwait

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 3/01/2025

Iraqi authorities handed over Kuwaiti blogger Salman Al-Khalidi, who was sentenced in absentia to long years in prison, to Kuwaiti authorities at the Kuwaiti Al-Abdali

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Blogger Mansoor Al-Muhareb sentenced to two years in prison

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 4/11/2024

As part of the Kuwaiti authorities’ continued repressive policies that they have pursued since dissolving the National Assembly in May 2024, the Criminal Court

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Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review of Kuwait

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 23/10/2024

Kuwait Joint Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review, 49th Session of the UPR Working Group, by Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Committee to Protect

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“We cannot promise free speech”: Suppression of Advocacy for the Bedoon in Kuwait

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 17/10/2024

Kuwait Mission Report Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) October 2024 Download the Full

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Former MP banned from entering country, citizens summoned for showing solidarity online

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 10/10/2024

The authorities in Kuwait banned former MP Shuaib Al-Muwaizri from entering the country in a blatant violation of the country's constitution, and also summoned citizens

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Significant restrictions on the right to freely form and join independent associations

  • Kuwait
  • Kuwait
  • 25/09/2024

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour has taken many legislative decisions and illegal measures that violate the Kuwaiti constitution to impose restrictions on the

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