Full Coverage: Kuwait

23.08.2007 OneWorld was among many news sites and blogs to highlight the detention of Kuwaiti blogger Bashar Al-Sayegh this week. Now they're reporting on his release.

22.08.2007 Roughly a month after the trial of an Egyptian blogger, the detention of Kuwaiti journalist and blogger Bashar Al-Sayegh has elicited strong criticism from Kuwaitis who assert that the government has violated the national constitution.

05.04.2006 Kuwaiti women have voted for the first time, going to the polls to choose a local council member in the district of Salmiya.

25.08.2005 Kuwait's State Ministry of Communications (MOC) is buying a gigabit passive optical network (GPON) solution that will serve about 60 per cent of the access areas involved in the present roll-out.

06.10.2004 KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, October 6, 2004 (ENS) - Access to Iraq's two deepwater seaports is blocked and the marine environment of the entire northern Persian Gulf is threatened by hundreds of sunken ships that were wrecked in wars over the past 25 years, according to a detailed new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

21.05.2004 Nei giorni scorsi l'ambasciata saudita di Londra comunicava la possibilità per le donne di poter votare alle elezioni municipali di ottobre. E il governo del Kuwait ha recentemente presentato un disegno di legge per consentire alle donne diritto di voto nelle elezioni parlamentari. "Fino a quando il Parlamento non approverà la legge è inutile entusiasmarsi" - nota in un'intervista a Peace Reporter Loluwa al-Mulla, presidente della Società Culturale e Sociale delle Donne del Kuwait. Nel 1999 il Parlamento bocciò il diritto di voto per le donne nel Paese arabo al quale la coalizione internazionale guidata dagli Usa aveva promesso nel 1991 di "portare la democrazia".

21.04.2004 Tuhannet pakistanilaiset, jotka joutuivat pakolaisiksi Irakin hyökättyä Kuwaitiin vuonna 1990, eivät vieläkään ole saaneet luvattuja korvauksia YK:lta projektin huonon johtamisen ja vitkastelun vuoksi. Korvaushakemusten esittämisen takarajaksi asetettiin joulukuu 1995, mikä ihmisoikeusasianajajan mukaan tarkoittaa lähes samaa kuin että oikeus korvaukseen olisi evätty kokonaan.

14.02.2003 Irakin sodan uhka synkistää tunnelmaa Persianlahden öljyvaltioissa, joiden asukkaista karkeasti puolet on ulkomaista vierastyövoimaa. Jäädäkö vai lähteä, moni ulkomaalainen tuskailee nyt. Kenties kaikkein huolestuttavimmaksi tilanne koetaan Kuwaitissa, jonka Irak miehitti 1990. Miehitys kesti seitsemän kuukautta, kunnes Yhdysvaltain johtama liittouma puuttui asiaan.

18.12.2002 Jonathan Lash says the environmental consequences of the 1991 Gulf War were disastrous.

18.12.2002 The environmental consequences of a war against Iraq could be worse than the last time, when croplands were destroyed, plants, animals and freshwater were poisoned and oil on tarred beaches killed nearly 25,000 birds, warns World Resources Institute President Jonathan Lash.

18.12.2002 Amid what appear to be accelerating preparations for a new conflict with Iraq, Jonathan Lash looks back at the environmental consequences of the 1991 Gulf War and finds a disaster.

05.11.2002 The suspension of the Al-Jazeera broadcasting network's Kuwait bureau by the Kuwait government was condemned by an international media watchdog yesterday.

24.09.2002 Kuwait and Bahrain have become the latest countries to voice support for the creation of an international fund to promote science and technology in the Muslim World.

23.04.2002 Monen Lähi-idän arabimaan kansalaiset vaativat yhä äänekkäämmin sotilaallisia toimia Israelia vastaan, mutta ajatus on mahdoton kyseisten maiden hallituksille. Syynä on asiantuntijoiden mukaan se, että ne ovat sekä sotilaallisesti että taloudellisesti Yhdysvaltain tiukassa otteessa.

16.04.2002 More than 150 Palestinian and Israeli youth have met over the last three years to create giant mosaic that will be placed in a park on the Israel-Palestine border. The mosaic symbolises a fear-free future and may well become a meeting place for the peoples of the region and the world.

27.04.2001 The United States and Europe are calling for democratic change in Kuwait - to include the right to vote for women - in return for support during the Gulf war.

26.04.2001 European countries and the United States expect democratic change in Kuwait in return for their support during the Gulf War - and this includes giving women the right to vote.

27.03.2001 Foreign ministers from 22 Arab nations are struggling to iron out regional splits caused by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait 11 years ago at the first Arab League Summit since 1990.

23.03.2001 A police officer suspected of murdering the editor of a Kuwaiti weekly magazine has confessed he was driven to carry out the killing by anger at one of her articles, according to international press reports.

18.12.2000 Hundreds of Bangladeshi women sent to work as home helpers in Gulf nations each year are abused and exploited by unscrupulous employers, say rights groups.