Comparative study of enabling environments for associations and businesses 2015, para. 65
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In some cases, restrictions on human rights can be directly linked to States' efforts to encourage business investment. Businesses then profit from those violations, sometimes calling upon State security organs for further protection. Crimes are often committed on their behalf with impunity. This is particularly true in the field of natural resource exploitation, as the Special Rapporteur documented in his 2015 report to the Human Rights Council. For example, reprisals against activists who stood up to large business interests have occurred in Colombia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and the Philippines.
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Non-negotiated soft law
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Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
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Environment
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Activists
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2015), A/70/266, para. 65.