The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 38
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- In his third report to the General Assembly (A/70/266), he provided a comparative study on the treatment of businesses and associations by States worldwide, comparing the enabling environments created by States, multilateral organizations and other actors for businesses and associations and highlighting instances in which they were treated inequitably. He found that States and other actors often imposed more burdensome regulation on associations, both in law and in practice, with businesses receiving more favourable treatment. The net result was that, for businesses, the enabling environment, defined broadly as action or inaction by States and other actors to promote a particular non-State sector, was typically much better than it was for associations. In the report, he advocated “sectoral equity”: a fair, transparent and impartial approach in which the regulation of each sector would be grounded in domestic and international law, standards and norms and where regulations would be clearly set forth in law, with minimum discretion given to State officials.
- 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)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph focus
- Contributions of the previous mandate holder
- Paragraph number
- 38
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