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) 

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