Challenges faced by groups most at risk when exercising or seeking to exercise the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and/or of association 2014, para. 7
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Backlash from the Arab Spring of early 2011 continues to be felt globally, with increasingly less space in which civil society actors can promote or defend collectively a field of mutual interest. Democracy involves more than just exercising the right to vote. For democracy to flourish, people must be guaranteed the whole range of fundamental rights and freedoms, including the rights to freedom of expression and of assembly, as a means to influence the public policies of the State. In recent years many States have responded to people's assertions of peaceful dissent by violently clamping down on peaceful protests and other forms of assembly, unduly restricting the ability of associations to form and operate, and physically assaulting civil society actors.
Condicón jurídica
Non-negotiated soft law
Organismo
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Tipo de documento
Special Procedures' report
Medio de adopción
N.A.
Temas
Civil & Political Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Personas afectadas
All
Año
2014
Tipo de párrafo
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2014), A/HRC/26/29, para. 7.