Challenges faced by groups most at risk when exercising or seeking to exercise the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and/or of association 2014, para. 70
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The Special Rapporteur recognizes the severe impact that the diagnosis of disability can have on the right to freedom of association. Too often, persons with disabilities are deprived of their autonomy to exercise their voting rights and to choose who to marry, where to live and how to relate to others in the community because of perceived or actual deficiencies in mental capacity and decision-making ability. Persons suffering from cognitive or psychosocial disabilities, and often children and young persons with these disabilities, are most at risk of being deprived of their legal capacity and equal treatment under the law. The Special Rapporteur urges States to take measures to ensure that no one is at any time deprived of their legal capacity due to their disability. Instead, support should be provided to enhance their capacity to exercise the rights and duties that they hold as human beings.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
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N.A.
Topic(s)
Equality & Inclusion
Person(s) affected
Children
Persons with disabilities
Youth
Year
2014
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/29, para. 70.