Best practices that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 2012, para. 15
Paragraphe
Paragraph text
According to article 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the right of peaceful assembly and the right to freedom of association are not absolute rights. Resolution 15/21 (OP 4) makes clear that they "can be subject to certain restrictions, which are prescribed by law and which are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order (ordre public), the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others".
Status juridique
Non-negotiated soft law
Organe
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Type de document
Special Procedures' report
Mode d'adoption
N.A.
Thèmes
Civil & Political Rights
Equality & Inclusion
Governance & Rule of Law
Health
Personnes concernées
All
Année
2012
Type de paragraphe
Other
Reference
SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the HRC (2012), A/HRC/20/27, para. 15.