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Bidoon in Kuwait
Over 100,000 residents of Kuwait are stateless, despite living in Kuwait for centuries. The bidoon (meaning, "without nationality") are discriminated against in every walk of life: they often cannot obtain marriage lisences, driver's licenses or birth certificates, which makes owing property, traveling outside the country, and legally establishing a family impossible. The bidoon are deprived of all state services given to citizens like child stipends, free health care, public education and subsidized housing. Bidoons cannot study in universities, join clubs and associations or work in government and due to their lack of documentation have trouble finding other jobs. The Kuwaiti regime claims that many of the bidoon are "illegal residents" who came to Kuwait after 1920, and should return to their countries of origin. More
We May Be Stateless But We Are Not Voiceless
03 Feb 17:03Social media has helped those of us who are stateless bond, communicate, and better coordinate for the sake of the community. These protests first started in February and immediately came under heavy attack from the local mainstream media and some...
Kuwait: Online Advocacy for the Stateless Bidoun · Global Voices
26 Dec 09:03Kuwait: Online Advocacy for the Stateless Bidoun
Muftah » The Bidun of Kuwait
22 Dec 11:04The Bidun of Kuwaitfeature_slideshow_description: Siham Nuseibeh feature_slideshow_overlay: Posted by admin on Dec 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment var add
Blog | Kuwait Punishes Bidoun for Demanding Their Rights | Refugees International
20 Dec 18:03In recent days, the stateless bidoun of Kuwait have taken to the streets to demand the restoration of their citizenship. The Kuwaiti government, however, has responded by crushing their protests.
Violence against protestors! Want proof?? (collected by @zwazia ) #kuwait #stateless #bidoon
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Kuwaiti riot police detain a stateless Arab, known as bidoon, during a protest to demand citizenship and other basic rights in Jahra, 50 kms (31 miles) northwest of Kuwait City, on Monday.
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Kuwaiti police disperse stateless protesters
20 Dec 15:37KUWAIT CITY - Kuwaiti riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of stateless protesters who demonstrated for the second time in four days demanding citizenship.
PhotoBlog - Stateless Arabs protest in Kuwait
20 Dec 15:37For more about this protest by stateless people known as bidoons (sometimes spelled bedoun, but distinct from Bedouin) in Kuwait, here's a story from the Khaleej Times.
Stateless, Kuwait, Kuwait Taima, Bidoon
20 Dec 15:36Press TV Mobile: Stateless protesters attacked in Kuwait http://t.co/RvRUVReb #PressTV http://t.co/pRL6OZ2f
Kuwaiti police disperse stateless protesters - Your Middle East
20 Dec 15:35Kuwaiti riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of stateless protesters who demonstrated for the second time in four days demanding citizenship.
AFP: Kuwait frees 20 stateless, other group faces trial
20 Dec 15:30KUWAIT CITY — Kuwait authorities on Sunday released 20 stateless people arrested two days earlier during a protest that was forcefully dispersed by riot police, a judicial source said.
AFP: Kuwaiti police disperse stateless protesters
20 Dec 15:28KUWAIT CITY — Kuwaiti riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of stateless protesters who demonstrated for the second time in four days demanding citizenship.
Mona Kareem: Ibishblog interview: Mona Kareem, Part 1
20 Dec 15:22In some Turkish restaurant in Brooklyn, I had the honor of meeting Hussein Ibish where we had a long discussion about Kuwait in general and the status of the Stateless community in specific. Here's a link to the first part of it, as he published it...