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. 57
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- Funding restrictions, including restrictions on foreign funding, may disproportionately affect associations that promote issues that do not enjoy popularity or the support of the State or the majority of the population, including those that relate to the advancement of the rights of marginalized groups. This is evidenced by the dichotomy that some States impose regarding association funding sources: certain types of activities or organizations are permitted to receive foreign funding while others only receive domestic funding. For instance, to be considered an Ethiopian charity or society, organizations cannot receive more than 10 per cent of their funding from foreign sources. Only Ethiopian charities or societies may engage in promoting human rights work, gender equality and religious equality, the rights of persons with disabilities, children's rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation and the efficiency of the justice and law enforcement services. Foreign associations or those that receive more than 10 per cent of their funding from foreign sources may not engage in such activities. In the Russian Federation, an organization working on "political activities" and receiving foreign funding must register itself as a "foreign agent", which in Russian is synonymous with "foreign spy". The law broadly defines political activities as attempts to influence official decision-making or to shape public opinion to exert a similar influence, and thus can include work in areas such as human rights, governance and accountability issues.
- 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)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Children
- Persons with disabilities
- Year
- 2014
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/29, para. 57.
- Paragraph number
- 57
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