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LGBTQ individuals in Kuwait face significant challenges and discrimination. Same-sex sexual activity between men is explicitly outlawed, with penalties of up to seven years in prison. Although there are no specific laws criminalizing same-sex sexual activity between women, it is still technically illegal due to the inability to consent unless ...
Illegal since 1962 Penalty: Up to 3 to 6 years imprisonment with hard labour. [68] [88] Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Disputed territory; excluding Southern Provinces) Illegal Penalty: Up to 3 years imprisonment. [68] [89] [90] Sudan: Illegal since 1899 (as Anglo-Egyptian Sudan) Penalty: Life imprisonment for a third offense of anal sex ...
Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have looser procedures for a name change while civil law jurisdictions are more restrictive. While some civil law jurisdictions have loosened ...
Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or the letter ß in family names are recognized as an important reason for a name change. (Even just the change of the spelling, e.g. from Müller to Mueller or from Weiß to Weiss, is regarded as name change. In German ID cards and passports, however, such names are spelled in two different ways: the correct way in the ...
'Neveen Ma'arafi') claimed that "There is a special law about the Kuwaiti Nationality that organizes the way to gain citizenship, what happened is that it appeared to the government that there are people who gained the citizenship through illegal ways, and there are those who gained the Kuwaiti citizenship then they were chosen to gain another ...
Kuwait's National Cinema Company pulled 'Beauty and the Beast' from its theaters to edit out the 'gay moment' in the Disney film.
In 2014, Kuwait was ranked 113 of 142 globally in the Global Gender Gap Report, [88] [89] the country improved its ranking due to significant increases in the overall income indicator. In 2015, Kuwait was ranked 117 of 145 globally in the Global Gender Index. [90] In 2020, Kuwait was ranked 122 of 153 globally in the Global Gender Gap Report.
Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia: Showed in cinemas elsewhere, including in Bahrain, Egypt and Lebanon. [94] Thor: Love and Thunder: 2022 Bahrain, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia: Banned in all Gulf states except the United Arab Emirates. [95] Also banned in Malaysia. [96] West Side Story: 2021 Kuwait and Saudi Arabia [97]