SOLVING STATELESSNESS address any human rights issue, the treaty bodies only consider the rights in that particular convention (although in light of the interrelated nature of human rights what is relevant to a particular treaty can be, and often is, interpreted broadly). On the other hand, this limitation allows the treaty bodies to address issues in far greater depth than the UPR and, as the figures below show, they are somewhat more consistent in addressing issues. The third difference between the UPR and the treaty bodies is that the recommendations of the treaty bodies are considered those of the body as whole, unlike the UPR where recommendations are made by individual States. A final difference is that the UPR occurs at fixed intervals (each State is reviewed every four and a half years), whereas the timetable of review by treaty bodies is variable and depends on the submission of reports by States Parties. Issues of nationality and statelessness could arise in any of the human rights treaty bodies.62 For this chapter we have chosen to focus on three treaties: The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). 3.1 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (Committee on Racial Discrimination) Article 5 of ICERD provides that: In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article 2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following rights: […] (d) Other civil rights, in particular: […] (iii) The right to nationality 62 A full listing of relevant treaty body provisions can be found in, Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion, Addressing the Right to Nationality through the Convention on the Rights of the Child: A toolkit for civil society, 2016, section 8. 35