1. MAKING EFFECTIVE USE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS TO SOLVE STATELESSNESS rate rises to 83%.89 As with the other treaty bodies, there have been some significant omissions. The failure to make any relevant recommendations to certain States with stateless populations and the fact that 30 States did not receive recommendations to ratify the UN Statelessness Conventions are cases in point. In addition, three States which maintain gender discrimination in their nationality laws did not receive recommendations on that subject although this affects children’s right to nationality.90 The Committee on the Rights of the Child has frequently asked States to respect their international obligations by taking measures to prevent children being or becoming stateless.91 These recommendations have made specific reference to children of stateless parents and children of foreign nationals who cannot transmit their nationality,92 children born out of wedlock93 or outside the country of their parents’ nationality,94 and foundlings, including those whose birth in the State cannot be proved.95 In general these recommendations reflect the position that the child’s right to nationality should not be dependent on his or her parent’s status.96 This approach accords with the approach taken in 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 A similar pattern can be seen in the UPR where recommendations on birth registration are among those least likely to include a reference to statelessness. Liberia, Nepal and Togo. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Guinea-Bissau, 8 July 2013, CRC/C/GNB/CO/2-4, paras. 34-35; CRC, Concluding observations on the combined third to fifth periodic reports of Ghana, 9 June 2015, CRC/C/GHA/ CO/3-5, paras. 31-32. CRC, Concluding observations on the second periodic report of Malta, 18 June 2013, CRC/C/MLT/CO/2, paras. 34-35. CRC, Concluding observations: Madagascar, 8 March 2012, CRC/C/MDG/CO/34, paras. 31-32. CRC, Concluding observations: Myanmar, 14 March 2012, CRC/C/MMR/ CO/3-4, paras. 41-42; CRC, Concluding observations on the combined third and fourth periodic report of Canada, 6 December 2012, CRC/C/CAN/CO/3-4, paras. 40-41. CRC, Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Fiji, 13 October 2014, CRC/C/FJI/CO/2-4, paras. 26-27. See, e.g., CRC, Concluding observations on the combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Chile, 30 October 2015, CRC/C/CHL/CO/4-5, paras. 3233, “ensure that all children born in the State party who would otherwise be stateless can acquire Chilean nationality at birth, irrespective of their parents migrant status” (emphasis added); CRC, Concluding observations on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of Switzerland, 26 February 2015, CRC/C/CHE/CO/2-4, paras. 30-31; CRC, Concluding observations on 42