standing invitation definition
standing invitation which in principle means that they will accord access to any mandate- holder who requests to visit the country.39 In practice there are enough political and other pressures upon states to ensure that the great majority have admitted at least some SRs at one time or another.40 The most pressing problem, however, is that states will often pick and choose which mandates they invite, as a result of which the most pertinent ones are often blocked while those that are considered relatively “harmless” are happily admitted.41