Best practices that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 2012, para. 23
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The context of elections may also heavily impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. This is particularly the case when assemblies are systematically prohibited or when individuals active in associations promoting transparent and fair electoral processes and defending democratic principles are subject to harassment and intimidation for their civic activism.
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
Civil & Political Rights
Year
2012
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/20/27, para. 23.