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About: Preventing the exclusion and expulsion of endangered minority populations

Statelessness in the Middle East Region is a focus of the UNHCR campaign to end statelessness worldwide.  See the UNHCR actions here.

The United Nations supports the reduction  and elimination of statelessness.  See the United Nations actions here.

Kuwait government threatens to expel it’s entire indigenous stateless population (see posts) who are family members of citizens, to desert camps and…

About: Preventing the exclusion and expulsion of endangered minority populations

Statelessness in the Middle East Region is a focus of the UNHCR campaign to end statelessness worldwide.  See the UNHCR actions here.The United Nations supports the reduction  and elimination of statelessness.  See the United Nations actions here.Kuwait government threatens to expel it’s entire indigenous stateless population (see posts) who are family members of citizens, to desert camps and an…

Citizenship, Identity, Belonging: Kuwait offers plan to buy foreign citizenship en masse to remove 100,000+ stateless claims

May 15, 2014

On May 15, Sheikh Mazen Al-Jarrah Al-Sabah, the assistant undersecretary for citizenship and passports affairs in Kuwait’s Interior Ministry, announced in a TV interview that his country is negotiating with a fellow “Arab country” to naturalize Kuwait’s stateless community in exchange for economic benefits. Jarrah added that the Central Agency for Illegal Residents, headed by former…