The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 24
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The intrinsic and inherent link between democracy and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association does not exhaust the importance of, nor does it fully testify to, the fundamental nature of those rights. Civil society contributes to development as much as it does to democracy.
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Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association