37. We urge national judges’ associations to bring up the issue of statelessness with the international union of judges. 38. We encourage civil society organizations to include a section relating to statelessness and the right to a nationality in reports presented at periodic reviews (universal periodic review, periodic review before the ACHPR). 39. We recommend that the United Nations and the African Union establish an international day on the fight against statelessness. 40. As statelessness can lead to instability, ECOWAS should integrate the fight against statelessness into its activities related to prevention and the resolution of conflict. 41. We urge ECOWAS to collect data on statelessness from each State, as well as set up measures to address statelessness. 42. We call on ECOWAS and UNHCR to follow up on the Conference Declaration and Recommendations and organize a conference every year to review the implementation of these commitments. 43. It is essential that States refer to best practices from other States. We invite UNHCR and ECOWAS to compile and regularly share these good practices. D. Identification of stateless persons   44. We recommend that States carry out nation-wide sensitizations on statelessness to enhance the understanding of the concept and the issues related to being stateless. 45. We recommend that States annually provide statistics to ECOWAS on stateless persons and on the number of people who during the year were able to find a durable solution to their situation of statelessness. We also invite them to share procedural and legal information relating to the fight against statelessness. We further recommend that ECOWAS make information sharing compulsory under Community law. 46. It is necessary that States integrate questions aimed at identifying and surveying stateless persons and persons at risk of statelessness in their population census. We call on ECOWAS, assisted by African Union, UNICEF and UNHCR, to develop a model framework. 47. We additionally invite States to use other mechanisms to identify stateless persons or persons at risk of statelessness, including during the preparation of electoral lists and during border control operations. All information collected through these mechanisms should be referred to a central institution designated by law, whose role is to identify and determine the status of persons concerned. 48. It is essential that States, assisted by National Human Rights Institutions and research institutes, including universities, comprehensively document the 8