Kuwait

This article is part of the series: Politics and government of Kuwait Image File history File links Kuwait_coa. ... The State of Kuwait (Dawlat al Kuwayt) has been ruled by the al-Sabah dynasty since approximately 1752. ...

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Human rights in Kuwait are mixed. Whereas male Kuwaiti nationals enjoy a moderate range of rights, there are severe allegations of human rights abuses among foreign nationals and women. Kuwait uses the death penalty for serious crimes like murder and drug trafficking. Freedom of the press is also restricted. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... This is an (incomplete) list of emirs of Kuwait: The Sabah dynasty came to power in 1752, before which date the Bani Khalid tribe ruled the region. ... Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah with U.S. president George W. Bush at the White House Sabah IV Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Arabic: صباح الأحمد الجابر الصباح Sabāh al-Ahmad al-Jābir as-Sabāh; born 1929) is the Emir of Kuwait. ... Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah: (13 Jul 2003 - present) ... Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah is the Prime minister of the state of Kuwait. ... The National Assembly of Kuwait, known as the Majlis Al-Umma, is the parliament of Kuwait. ... Politics of Kuwait Categories: Stub | Lists of political parties | Kuwait | Kuwaiti political parties ... Elections in Kuwait are held for both the National Assembly (Majlis al-Umma) and for the Municipality. ... The Kuwaiti parliamentary election of 2006 was held on June 29, 2006. ... The five governorates (muhafazat) of Kuwait are Al Ahmadi Al Farwaniyah Al Asimah Al Jahra Hawalli Categories: Lists of subnational entities | Kuwait | Governorates of Kuwait | Governorates ... Following independence in June 1961, Kuwait faced its first major foreign policy problem arising from Iraqi claims to Kuwaits territory. ... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ... Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events... Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public press for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...

Treaties

Kuwait is a party to several international human rights treaties, including^[1]

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
• Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour
• Convention concerning Forced or Compulsory Labour
• Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention
• Abolition of Forced Labour Convention
• Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention
• Convention against Discrimination in Education

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Women

Until recently, the right to vote was not extended to women. Starting in the parliamentary elections in 2006, women were allowed to vote, though there was low turnout^[2]. Despite this change, women are still treated as inferior in law and society. As of 2001, the Personal Status Law puts women under men in marriage, inheritance and testimony in court^[3] Legally, married women are mostly subservient to their husbands and lack independence in several areas, giving women virtually no power in everything from divorce to freedom of movement^[4]. The Kuwaiti parliamentary election of 2006 was held on June 29, 2006. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A marriage is a relationship between or among individuals, usually recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants. ... Inheritance is the practice of passing on property, titles, debts, and obligations upon the death of an individual. ...

Foreign nationals

Individuals of foreign descent who live permanently in Kuwait, or bidun, have severely limited rights. Until recently, it was nearly impossible to gain citizenship, and it is still limited. Bidun who fail to gain citizenship or register as foreigners face the threat of deportation. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, "Kuwait severely restricted their rights to leave and return to Kuwait, to marry and found a family, and to work, and their children's rights to education, to be registered immediately after birth, and to acquire a nationality."^[3] After the Gulf War of 1990-1991, Kuwait expelled more than 400,000 Palestinian refugees (after the PLO allied itself with Iraq during its invasion of Kuwait). Guest workers also encounter several human rights abuses, and the right to organize a labor union is limited^[4]. Bidun (sometomes spelled bidoon) is shorthand for bidun jinsiya, Arabic for without nationality. It refers to certain Bedouin tribes in Kuwait and Bahrain whose members were not granted citizenship, and so are seriously legally disadvantaged in comparison with the regular citizens of these countries. ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ... Human Rights Watch Banner Human Rights Watch is a United States-based international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. ... In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a Palestinian refugee is a refugee from Palestine created by the Palestinian Exodus, which Palestinians call the Nakba (نكبة, meaning disaster). History Most of the refugees had already fled by the time the neighboring Arab states intervened on the side of Palestinians... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah منظمة تحرير فلسطينية ) is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the... A union (labor union in American English; trade union, sometimes trades union, in British English; either labour union or trade union in Canadian English) is a legal entity consisting of employees or workers having a common interest, such as all the assembly workers for one employer, or all the workers...

Press

In 2005, Kuwait ranked 85th in the Reporters Without Borders world survey of the freedom of the press^[5]. According to the 2004 full report, Kuwait ranks among the most free countries in the Middle East for the press, but there is still widespread self-censorship of local and foreign press, and certain subjects are understood to be taboo^[6]. Reporters Without Borders, or RWB (French: Reporters sans frontières, Spanish: Reporteros Sin Fronteras, or RSF) is an international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. ... Self-censorship is the act of censoring and/or classifying ones own book(s), film(s), or other kind of art to avoid offending others without an authority pressuring them to do so. ...

References

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External links

• Human Rights Watch: Kuwait
• Censorship in Kuwait - IFEX