% of States 60 50 % of States receiving at least one (specific or broadly relevant) 40 1. Making effective use of UN human rights mechanisms to solve statelessness recommendation 30 20 10 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 % of States receiving a recommendation specifically mentioning stateless Figure 3. Percentage of States receiving relevant recommendations from Year the Committee on Racial Discrimination 2012-2015.63 100 % of States reviewed 90 80 % of States receiving a recommendation on statelessness or right to a nationality 70 60 50 % of States receiving at least one (broadly) relevant recommendation 40 30 20 10 0 2012 2013 Year 2014 2015 % of States receiving a recommendation specifically mentioning stateless In total 67% of the relevant recommendations in this period refer specifically to statelessness and 42% of States reviewed received at least one broadly relevant recommendation. As with the UPR, the Committee on Racial Discrimination is not entirely consistent with respect to which States receive recommendations and which do not. For example, while 20 States received recommendations to ratify the Statelessness Conventions, 26 States which are not parties to one or both Conventions did not receive such recommendations. Poland and Sweden each received no relevant recommendations.64 The recommendations cover a wide range of relevant issues, including data collection,65 birth registration66 and avoiding statelessness in 63 64 65 66 Broadly relevant recommendations are those which deal with birth registration and access to documentation without linking these issues to the right to a nationality or statelessness. At the end of 2014 Poland had a stateless population of 10,825 and Sweden one of 27,167. UNHCR, Statistical Yearbook, supra n46, Annex Table 7. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), Concluding observations on the combined six and seventh periodic reports of Kazakhstan, 14 March 2014, CERD/C/KAZ/CO/6-7, para. 19; CERD, Concluding observations on the combined tenth and eleventh periodic reports of the Czech Republic, 25 September 2015, CERD/C/CZE/CO/10-11, paras. 27-28. See, e.g., CERD, Concluding observations on the eighteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Peru, 25 September 2014, CERD/C/PER/CO/18-21, para. 19; CERD, Concluding observations on the combined eighth to tenth periodic reports of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 21 September 2015, CERD/C/MKD/CO/8-10, paras. 20-21. 36