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Country Position Paper: Statelessness in Kuwait

Posted on 21 October 2022 by Jan Brulc
Yousra Owayed, 31, holds her baby Nour in the kitchen of the apartment in Chios she and her husband received through UNHCR. The family of seven are members of Kuwait's stateless Bidoon community. They arrived by sea from Turkey to Greece in July 2018. ; UNHCR works with the Greek Government, local authorities and NGOs to provide urban accommodation and cash assistance to refugees and asylum-seekers in Greece. By the end of October 2018, UNHCR had created nearly 26,000 places in the accommodation scheme as part of the Emergency Support To Integration and Accommodation programme (ESTIA). As of late-October 2018, there were just under 4,000 asylum-seekers on the eastern Aegean island of Chios. The reception centre in Vial hosts more than 2,000 people, double its capacity. Living conditions are poor and among the asylum-seekers are unaccompanied children, pregnant women, people with disabilities and survivors of sexual violence. Some 35,000 refugees and migrants arrived in Greece between January and September 2018 – an increase of 48 per cent compared to 2017.

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