The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 58
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Restrictive laws, for example, are used to target organizations working on issues that the authorities find sensitive. Emblematic of this approach is the use by Ecuador of Executive Decree No. 16 to close the Pachamama Foundation, which had worked peacefully and legitimately for 18 years to defend human rights, especially the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon (A/HRC/26/21 and ECU 4/2013).
Legal status
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)
Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
Ethnic minorities
Year
2015
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2015), A/HRC/29/25, para. 58.