Eleventh
Session
Organization
for
Statelessness
Mr.
of the
Forum
Defending
on Minority
Victims
Issues,
of Violence
2018
(ODW)
in Bahrain
President
(kpnlyaitlon
(or De/cndlng
Vlcllin+
or Vloleiice
In Bahrain,
statelessness
revoking
nationality
wielding
of
citizenship
the right
to have legal
The
or even
arbitrarily
What
country2
also
is that
the
and
Religious
the
and
Nations'
the right
problem
at
any
on the
Linguistic
Minorities,
goal to end statelessness
from
time
to the
citizenship
of
moving
number
the
been
are denied
property
and
and borrowing
free
stateless
medical
care.
dissidents
of stateless
as a punishment
Persons
in
By
are
lawl.
law, including
Rights
to own
a business
many
has
people
and to receive
and
minorities.
government
Stateless
starting
anti-terrorism
of the international
Declaration
the
of movement,
schools
is adding
people's
and religious
today,
to freedom
the country's
Kingdom
till
ethnic
and oppression.
to public
deported
for
Bahrainis
are also prevented
revoking3
in breach
760
of control
children
get
under
by arbitrarily
and activism,
They
their
imprisoned
is worse
Rights
jobs.
can
than
residency,
sending
stateless
more
as a weapon
to hold government
loans
is a longstanding
opposite
in the
for political
Universal
Belonging
people
Declaration
to
of Human
National
direction
of
by 2024.
dissent
or
Ethnic,
the
United
Nlr. President
Being
seriously
Organization
for
immediately
they
calls
situation
stop
victims
the
equal
on the
of stateless
systematic
with
with
Defending
stop
can enjoy
ODW
concerned
exercise
human
of
of
stateless
Violence
of nationality
group
people
compensation
situation
(ODW),
revocation
and
minorities
calls
of
on minority
in Bahrain
offering
the
to
right
and redress.
issues
identity
to
closely
recommendation
and
nationality
in
on
reinstate
the
Bahrain,
study
and
to the
while
the
Kingdom
all victims
rights.
working
violation
the
Victims
to
so that
monitor
the
government
to
providing
the
I https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middleeast/bahrain-is-stripping-dissidents-of-their-citizenship-and-the-us-issilent/2017/07/08/3ad347d0-5154-lle7-91eb-9611861a988fstory.html?noredirect=on&utmterm=.7d528268fd52
2 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/bahrain-citizenship-of-115-people-revoked-in-ludicrous-mass-trial/
3 https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/04/bahrain-new-deportations-nationals