Kuwait: The Bedoons of Kuwait "Citizens Without Citizenship"
by Human Rights Watch Staff
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Kuwait practices a system of institutionalized discrimination against its residents known as Bedoons, longtime inhabitants who have been denied Kuwaiti citizenship and are now being rendered stateless. Barred from employment, denied education for their children, restricted in their movements, and living under the constant threat of arbitrary arrest and deportation, Bedoons are a community of "have nots" in one of the wealthiest countries in the world. At the same time, tens of thousands of show more Bedoons who fled Kuwait during the Iraqi occupation have barred from returning to their country. show lessTags
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