Number of rec Number of additional broadly relevant recommendations 40 20 1. MAKING EFFECTIVE USE OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS TO SOLVE STATELESSNESS 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Number of recommendations mentioning stateless Year Figure 2. Percentage of States receiving relevant recommendations in the UPR 2012-2016 % of States reviewed 100 90 % of States receiving at least one recommendation on statelessness or right to a nationality 80 70 60 50 % of States receiving at least one (specific or broadly relevant) recommendation 40 30 20 10 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 % of States receiving a recommendation specifically mentioning stateless Year 100 90 % of States reviewed Despite the generally positive trend that these figures show, one of % of States receiving a recommendation 80 on statelessness or right to a nationality the 70 most striking features of the UPR is its inconsistency. The table 60 below shows the number of recommendations made to the twenty 50 States reviewed so far in the second cycle which have a stateless % of States receiving at least one 40 46 (broadly) relevant recommendation population of more than 10,000 persons and, for purposes of 30 comparison, the States which have received the largest number of 20 10 recommendations. It is noteworthy that seven of these 20 States % of States receiving a recommendation 0 received no recommendations on statelessness or mentioning the right to specifically stateless 2012 2013 2014 2015 nationality. A number ofYearother States where there are known to be issues, but the size of the stateless population is unclear (for instance, Albania, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Eritrea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Sudan) were also among the States which did not receive any relevant recommendations.47 46 47 UNHCR, Statistical Yearbook 2014, 2015, Annex Table 7 Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate. Syrian Arab Republic is omitted as it has yet to be reviewed. Ibid. 28