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VII. Overview of States not yet visited by any mandate holder
As of 31 December 2018, out of the 193
United Nations Member States, 169 States
(87.5%) have been visited by at least one
special procedures mandate holder. A total
of 24 States (12.5%) have never been
visited; 7 States have not yet received any
request, 14 States have not yet accepted
any request and 3 States have accepted
requests for visits, however, they had not
yet taken place as of 31 December 2018.
Regional division UN Member States
not yet visited by any mandate (of
the 24 in total)
States never visited, no
request sent
States never visited,
request(s) sent
(7 in total)
(17 in total)
Andorra
Barbados
Antigua and Barbuda
Brunei Darussalam
Monaco
Djibouti1
Palau
Dominica
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Eritrea
San Marino
Eswatini
Suriname
Grenada
Guinea
Lesotho2
Luxembourg3
WEOG,
17%
African
Group,
29%
Micronesia (Federated
States of)
Nauru4
GRULA
C, 29%
EEG, 0%
Asia
Pacific
Group,
25%
Saint Lucia
Sao Tome e Principe
Tonga
Vanuatu
Zimbabwe5
1
2
3
4
5
Djibouti was visited by the mandate holders on the situation of human rights in Somalia (in 2011) and in
Eritrea (in 2013) but has not yet accepted a visit from other mandate holders concerning its human rights situation.
Lesotho agreed to the visit of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to water and sanitation scheduled from the 4
to 15 February 2019.
Luxembourg accepted a visit request from the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women
and children in 2015 (postponed/cancelled by mandate holder due to prior engagements). The request of the
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty in 2015 has not received a response.
The Special Rapporteur on the situation of migrants visited off-shore detention centers in Nauru during his
country visit to Australia from 1 to 18 November 2016.
In November 2018, Zimbabwe extended an invitation to six mandate holders – the Special Rapporteur on the
right to food, the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, the Special Rapporteur on the independence
of judges and lawyers, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association,
the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Special Rapporteur on
the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights – to visit the country.
Two visits – by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom
of peaceful assembly and of association – have so far been confirmed for 2019.
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