Kuwait

Population Statistics

2,788,534

Total Population

418,280

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

22 August 2013

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Law Number 8 of 2010 for the Rights of People with Disabilities (2010)

Updated: June 2015

Article 5 states:

obliges the Government to take administrative measures and to provide necessary equipment to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy their civil and political rights.

 

Article 5 states:

The government shall take all effective administrative procedures, and provide the necessary equipment to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy their civil and political rights. The Government is committed to providing offices to give special services for people with disabilities in all its institutions and governmental bodies including a sign language interpreter and a supporter to serve the blind to ensure they enjoy their rights on an equal basis with others.

Excerpt from Law Number 8 of 2010 for the Rights of People with Disabilities (2010)

Kuwaiti Constitution (1962)

Updated: June 2015

Article 80, clause 1 states:

The National Assembly is composed of fifty members elected directly by universal suffrage and secret ballot in accordance with the provisions prescribed by the electoral law.

 

Excerpt from Kuwaiti Constitution (1962)