SOLVING STATELESSNESS There has been a slight increase in the number of recommendations referring to statelessness in the second UPR cycle compared with the first,42 which tallies with the overall increase in the number of recommendations.43 This has not, however, meant that all the recommendations made in the first cycle were repeated or followed up in the second cycle. For instance, in the first cycle Côte d’Ivoire received four recommendations specifically mentioning the stateless population, but in the second cycle the only broadly relevant recommendations were those on birth registration and none of these referred to the prevention of statelessness.44 Figure 1 shows the number of recommendations made per year in the second cycle of the UPR.45 Figure 1. Number of recommendations made in the UPR 2012-2016 120 Number of recommendations 100 Number of recommendations on statelessness or right to a nationality 80 60 Number of additional broadly relevant recommendations 40 20 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Number of recommendations mentioning stateless Year % of States reviewed 100 42 43 44 % of States reviewed 45 90 % of States receiving at least one recommendation on statelessness or right to a nationality 80 70 A 60total of 187 recommendations on statelessness and the right to nationality 50 were made in the first cycle, including 78 using the term% “stateless”. of States receiving at least one 40 (specific or broadly relevant) in the UPR Info, Statistics, supra n38 the total number of recommendations recommendation 30 first UPR cycle was 21,356 compared to 30,926 in the (not yet complete) 20 second cycle. 10 HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Côte 0 % of States receiving a recommendation 2012 2013 2015 2016 specifically mentioning stateless d’Ivoire, 4 January 2010,2014 A/HRC/13/9, paras. 101.13, 101.17, 101.20, 101.21; Year HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Côte d’Ivoire, 7 July 2014, A/HRC/27/6, paras. 127.43, 127.87, 127.152, 127.153. In 100 2012 and 2016 (at time of writing) only 28 States had been reviewed compared to 42 in the other years. This goes some way towards explaining the 90 lower figures in these years, although 2012 still represents thereceiving lowest average % of States a recommendation 80 on statelessness or right to a nationality number of recommendations per State and it is unlikely that the number of 70 recommendations in 2016 will surpass that in 2015. 60 50 % of States receiving at least one (broadly) relevant recommendation 40 30 20 10 0 27 % of States receiving a recommendation specifically mentioning stateless