A/HRC/32/36
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of
peaceful assembly and of association
Contents
Page
I.
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................
3
II.
Activities .........................................................................................................................................
3
A.
Communications ......................................................................................................................
3
B.
Country visits ...........................................................................................................................
3
C.
Participation in various events .................................................................................................
4
Fundamentalism and its impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly
and of association .............................................................................................................................
4
A.
Introduction .............................................................................................................................
4
B.
State and non-State actors: the interplay between fundamentalism and power .......................
5
C.
Legal framework ......................................................................................................................
6
D.
Market fundamentalism ...........................................................................................................
8
E.
Political fundamentalism .........................................................................................................
11
F.
Religious fundamentalism .......................................................................................................
13
G.
Cultural and nationalist fundamentalisms ...............................................................................
16
The role of assembly and association rights in the context of rising extremism
and radicalization .............................................................................................................................
19
Conclusion and recommendations ....................................................................................................
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III.
IV.
V.
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