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The right to freedom of association involves the right of individuals to interact and organize among themselves to collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests. This includes the right to form trade unions. Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association serve as a vehicle for the exercise of many other rights guaranteed ...
This document, adopted on 27 July 2020, gives a comprehensive overview on the right of peaceful assembly, outlining the responsibilities of states in ensuring the right as well as providing guidance for protest organizers. The document, issued in July 2020 by OHCHR, provides clear guidance on the use of less lethal weapons, including in the ...
the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to track demonstrators and political opponents;Acknowdleging the important role of private companies in protecting and facilitating the enjoyment of freedom of assembly online and other democratic rights, based on their due diligence as stated in the UN Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights;
In this report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, calls for urgent joint global action to respond to the global attack on civic space, to preserve the gains made, and push back against the emerging and deepening threats against the rights to peaceful assembly and of association.
In 2010, the Human Rights Council adopted resolution 15/21 on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (FoAA), creating the mandate of the Special Rapporteur. Over the course of the first ten years of its existence, the mandate has guided and contributed to many achievements in the protection of FoAA rights as well as civic space globally.
Civil and political rights. This document, adopted on 27 July 2020, gives a comprehensive overview on the right of peaceful assembly, outlining the responsibilities of states in ensuring the right as well as providing guidance for protest organizers.
BackgroundIn her first report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Ms. Gina Romero, will examine global patterns and trends in the spread of negative and stigmatizing narratives against civil society and activists.
GENEVA (15 September 2023) – States must effectively respect, protect and facilitate the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, of association and of expression online and in digitally-mediated spaces, and ensure digital technologies are not used to unduly restrict civic space online and offline, UN and regional human rights experts urged in a new joint declaration.
Freedom of association and assembly. Main international standards Universal Declaration of Human Rights: article 20 (1) International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: articles 21 and 22 General Comment 25 (Article 25) of the Human Rights Committee (participation in public affairs and the right to vote)
In July 2020, the Human Rights Committee published General Comment 37 (GC 37) on the right of peaceful assembly, a right enshrined in Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Article 21 provides that "the right of peaceful assembly shall be recognized," and allows limited circumstances in which it can be restricted.