SOLVING STATELESSNESS Figure 4. Percentage of States receiving relevant recommendations from the Committee on Discrimination against Women 2012-2015.79 100 % of States reviewed 90 % of States receiving a recommendation on statelessness or right to a nationality 80 70 60 50 % of States receiving at least one (broadly) relevant recommendation 40 30 20 10 0 2012 2013 2014 2015 % of States receiving a recommendation specifically mentioning stateless Year % of States reviewed 100 90 % of State receiving a recommendation 80 on statelessness or right to a nationality Drawing on Article 9, the Committee on Discrimination against Women 70 60 has consistently recommended that States Parties amend provisions 50 in nationality laws which discriminate on the basis of gender.80 In 40 % of States receiving at least one the period surveyed such recommendations were made all of the (broadly) relevant to recommendation 30 20 reviewed which maintain such discriminatory laws.81 Their States 10 recommendations in this respect have included recommendations to 0 82a recommendation % of States receiving 2012 2013 2014 in State’s 2015 amend discriminatory provisions constitutions. It is also specifically mentioning stateless Year worth noting that the Committee on Discrimination against Women consistently makes such recommendations to States which have entered reservations to Article 9.83 79 80 81 82 83 Broadly relevant recommendations are those which deal with birth registration and access to documentation without linking these issues to the right to a nationality or statelessness. See, e.g., Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Jordan, 23 March 2012, CEDAW/C/JOR/ CO/5, paras. 33-34; CEDAW, Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Benin, 28 October 2013, CEDAW/C/BEN/CO/4, paras. 24-25; CEDAW, Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Bahrain, 10 March 2014, CEDAW/C/BHR/CO/3, paras. 33-34; CEDAW, Concluding observations on the combined fourth to eighth periodic reports of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 28 July 2015, CEDAW/C/VCT/CO/4-8, paras. 26-27. This has not, however, always been the case. CEDAW, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Bahamas, 6 August 2012, CEDAW/C/BHS/ CO/1-5, paras. 29-30. See, e.g., Ibid.; CEDAW, Concluding observations: Jordan, supra n80, paras. 9-10; CEDAW, Concluding observations on the combined initial and second 39