A/HRC/40/38/Add.1 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. 17