Stakeholder Summary >> Kuwait, Review Documentation, 35th Session, February 2020

JS2 called on Kuwait to comprehensively review and amend the Nationality Law to ensure that Kuwaiti women, regardless of marital status, have equal rights with men to transfer citizenship to their spouses and children; repeal Article 182 of the Kuwaiti Penal Code that pardons rapists and perpetrators from punishment when they marry their victims; and abolish Article 153 of the Kuwaiti Penal Code that provides reduced sentences for men who kill women in the name of so-called honor. [Para 18]