Category Archives: Kuwait
Reports Saudi Arabia
WTA and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia
On April 4 2024, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) finalized an agreement with the Saudi [...]
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Bahrain Reports
Brutal Crackdown: Voices Silenced – Pro-Palestine Demonstrators, Including Innocent Children, Face Harrowing Suppression in Bahrain Since October 2023
On the 15th of December 2023, the Bahraini police arrested 57 people, including 25 children, [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia
The nomination of Saudi Arabia for the presidency of the United Nations Women’s Rights Commission
At the end of March 2024, Saudi Arabia was appointed to chair the 69th session [...]
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Countries Saudi Arabia
The ban on withholding worker’s passports under the light of the 2020 executive regulations
For decades, migrant workers who moved to Saudi Arabia have faced hardships in seeing their [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia Yemen
Silent Slaughter: The Untold Tragedy of Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border
Last August, Human Rights Watch revealed that between March 2022, and June 2023 the Saudi [...]
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Kuwait | The Life of Overseas Migrant Workers
From Kuwait’s total population of 4.6 million people, over 3 million are migrant nationals from [...]
Jun
GCC Countries and Migrant Workers: Background Facts
The presence of migrant workers in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), [...]
May
Kuwait: Slaves Bought and Sold on Social Media and Phone Applications
A BBC Arabic investigation over online human trafficking in Kuwait has shown that selling girls [...]
Nov
Kuwait: 15 Bidoon Activists in Prison on Hunger Strike for Arbitrary Detention
On 22 August 2019, 15 Bidoon activists in prison began an open-ended hunger strike in [...]
Aug
Kuwait: Human Rights Defender Abdulhakim AlFadhli Faces Arbitrary Detention
This article is sourced from original reporting done by Front Line Defenders. On 21 July [...]
Aug
Kuwait: Government Continues to Target and Incarcerate Bidoon Community
Following the death of Ayed Hamad Moudath and the ensuing protests in early July, Kuwaiti [...]
Aug
Kuwait: Authorities Crackdown on Peaceful Protests Over Bidoon Death
Between the 11 and 14 of July 2019 Kuwaiti authorities have arrested at least 15 [...]
Jul
Saudi Arabia: The United Kingdom Has Suspended New Arms Sales to the Saudi-led Coalition Fighting in the Yemen War
On Tuesday 25 June 2019, the Department for International Trade of the British government has [...]
Jun
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