Kuwait

US Government Reports

U.S. Department of State	Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 Country Reports on Terrorism - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 International Religious Freedom Report - 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 Trafficking in Persons Report - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
CIA	Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments The World Factbook - Kuwait
Library of Congress	Country Studies/Area Handbooks Program
Library of Congress-Congressional Research Service (CRS)	Kuwait: Issues for the 118th Congress - May 2023, March 2023 Kuwait: Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy – May 2021 Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Issues for Congress – Dec. 2021 Kuwait: Post-Saddam Issues and U.S. Policy - Nov. 2014
United States Commission on International Religious Freedom	Violating Rights – Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws – Dec. 2020 Respecting Rights? Measuring the World’s Blasphemy Laws – July 2017 The Religion-State Relationship & the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Majority Muslim Countries and Other OIC Members – August 2012

Foreign Government Reports

UK Home Office Reports	Kuwait: Bidoons – April 2021
Canada Immigration and Refugee Board	ZZZ106021.E - Kuwait and Palestine: residence status of stateless Palestinians, including access to employment, education, health care and other services, and the ability to travel in and out of the country; the requirements and procedures to renew residence status; treatment of stateless Palestinians whose residency status has expired – Feb. 2018

Non-Government Organization Reports

Amnesty International	Amnesty International Reports: The state of the World’s Human Right - Apr. 2024, Mar. 2023 “I Don’t Have a Future”: Stateless Kuwaitis and the Right to Education - Aug. 2023 Covid-19 Crackdowns - Police Abuse and the Global Pandemic – Dec. 2020 Amnesty International Global Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2019 – April 2020 Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Review of 2019
BBC	Timeline
Country Maps	University of Texas at Austin - Map Collection
Election Guide	Recent Elections
Freedom House	Freedom in the World - 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020; 2019, 2018, 2017 Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa 2010. - Mar. 2010
Human Rights Watch	Trapped - How Male Guardianship Policies Restrict Women’s Travel and Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa - July 2023 “THEY HUNT US DOWN FOR FUN” Discrimination and Police Violence Against Transgender Women in Kuwait - Jan. 2012 Prisoners of the Past - Kuwaiti Bidun and the Burden of Statelessness - June 2011 Walls at Every Turn - Abuse of Migrant Domestic Workers through Kuwait's Sponsorship System - Oct. 2010 Promises Betrayed: Denial of Rights of Bidun, Women, and Freedom of Expression - Oct. 2000 The Bedoons of Kuwait: “Citizens without Citizenship - Aug. 1995
World Health Organization	Webpage

Country Profiles

Amnesty International	USCIRF
Freedom House	Human Rights Watch

Updated May 20, 2024