A/HRC/29/25 Contents Page I. Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1–2 3 II. Activities ................................................................................................................. 3–5 3 III. IV. 2 Paragraphs A. Communications ............................................................................................. 3 3 B. Country visits .................................................................................................. 4 3 C. Participation in various events ........................................................................ 5 4 Rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation ............................................................................... 6–66 5 A. Background ..................................................................................................... 6–12 5 B. Key actors in the natural resource exploitation field ...................................... 13–19 6 C. International legal and regulatory framework ................................................. 20–29 8 D. Challenges applicable to both the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association ............................................................................ 30–38 11 E. Challenges to the right to freedom of peaceful assembly ............................... 39–56 13 F. Challenges to the right to freedom of association ........................................... 57–66 17 Conclusions and recommendations ......................................................................... 67–77 19 A. States ............................................................................................................... 72 20 B. Corporations ................................................................................................... 73 21 C. Civil society .................................................................................................... 74 22 D. Other actors..................................................................................................... 75–77 22

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