A/HRC/32/36
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 August 2016
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-second session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association*
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat has the honour to transmit the fifth thematic report of the Special
Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, prepared
pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 15/21 and 24/5. In sections I and II of the
report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of the activities that he carried out
between 1 March 2015 and 28 February 2016. In section III, he addresses the phenomenon
of fundamentalism and its impact on the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful
assembly and of association. In section IV, he examines the positive role that assembly and
association rights can play in preventing the spread of extremism and radicalization. The
Special Rapporteur outlines his conclusions and his recommendations to various
stakeholders in section V.
* The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent developments.
GE.16-13829(E)