The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 39
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- In his fifth report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/32/36), the previous mandate holder addressed the phenomenon of fundamentalism and its impact on the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. While he stressed that the mere voluntary adherence to a fundamentalist belief system was not a human rights violation in and of itself, he recalled that, when holders of such beliefs sought to impose them in a way that controlled or restricted the rights of others who might have different views or backgrounds, they threatened the values of pluralism and broadmindedness that were core to democracy. The tipping point, for the purposes of the report, was when fundamentalist views formed the basis for violations of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. He also examined the positive role that those rights could play in preventing the spread of extremism and radicalization.
- 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)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Contributions of the previous mandate holder
- Paragraph number
- 39
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