Ability of associations to access financial resources as a vital part of the right to freedom of association & Ability to hold peaceful assemblies as an integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 2013, para. 24
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The Special Rapporteur also calls for sectoral equity, noting that commercial companies and other entities have been abused for terrorist purposes. He calls on States to avoid measures that disproportionately target or burden civil society organizations, such as imposing onerous vetting rules, procedures or other CSO-specific requirements not applied to the corporate sector writ large.
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Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
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Special Procedures' report
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Governance & Rule of Law
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Year
2013
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Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2013), A/HRC/23/39, para. 24.