The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 33
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- In his second report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/23/39), addressing civil society’s right to seek, receive and use human, material and financial resources, he observed that restrictions on funding had become a major existential threat to associations across the world, as Governments increasingly used the financial noose as a way to silence them. He clarified that, under international law, freedom of association encompassed the right to seek, receive and use human, material and financial resources from domestic, foreign and international sources. He noted that States were obliged to facilitate, not restrict, access to funding so that associations could effectively take part in democratic and developmental processes, just as businesses and Governments do. A document outlining general principles on protecting civic space and the right to access resources, summarizing the key aspects of that right and their legal bases, was issued in May 2014.
- 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)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Contributions of the previous mandate holder
- Paragraph number
- 33
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