1. MAKING EFFECTIVE USE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS TO SOLVE STATELESSNESS on ensuring that no child is born stateless (accounting for six of the rejected recommendations on this topic).54 For other States the concordance of these recommendations with the provisions of the CRC may have contributed to making them acceptable. A similar pattern is visible in the recommendations on denial, loss or deprivation of nationality; recommendations dealing with specific situations or particular groups are significantly less likely to be accepted than those referring only to discriminatory provisions in national laws. The well established nature of the prohibition on arbitrary deprivation of nationality may help in this respect, but this may equally be seen as a recognition that principles of non-discrimination and equality should apply to nationality laws. The high level of acceptance of recommendations on birth registration may again be related to the near universal acceptance of the CRC as well as the generally uncontroversial nature of the issue. Recommendations linking birth registration to other issues such as the status of migrant workers,55 minorities,56 the withdrawal of reservations to the CRC,57 or the prevention of statelessness58 are less likely to be accepted than those without such references. On the other hand including in these recommendations the importance of issuing documentation as well 54 55 56 57 58 HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Dominican Republic, 4 April 2014, A/HRC/26/15, paras. 98.18, 98.114, 98.116-117, 98.126, 98.131 (while these recommendations do not all specifically mention preventing childhood statelessness their context makes it clear that one of the concerns being addressed in each case was the denial of nationality to children of Haitian descent born in the Dominican Republic). HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Republic of Korea, 12 December 2012, A/HRC/22/10, para. 124.29; HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Malaysia, 4 December 2013, A/HRC/25/10, para. 146.221. HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: India, 9 July 2012, A/HRC/21/10, para. 138.131. HRC, UPR Report: Malaysia, supra n55, para. 146.33. Of the four birth registration recommendations mentioning statelessness, three were rejected. HRC, UPR Report: Republic of Korea, supra n55, para. 124.29; HRC, UPR Report: Dominican Republic, supra n54, para. 98.113; HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Lebanon, 22 December 2015, A/HRC/31/5, para. 132.215. The one accepted birth registration recommendation mentioning statelessness was HRC, Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review: Comoros, 7 April 2014, A/HRC/26/11, para. 112.6. 32