The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of elections 2013, para. 30
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- Everyone has the right to form or join a political party and conversely, no one should be compelled to belong to a political party. The Human Rights Committee, in its general comment No. 25 (para. 26), has stated that political parties and membership in parties play a significant role in the conduct of public affairs and the election process. Political parties are indeed the primary vehicles through which people can participate in the conduct of public affairs. The Special Rapporteur recognises political parties as a subset of associations included in the right to freedom of association enshrined in article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As such, the principles and minimum standards elaborated by the Special Rapporteur in his thematic report on best practices (A/HRC/20/27) generally apply to the regulation of political parties. Nevertheless, political parties are organizations formed to carry out particular objectives, that is, presenting candidates for elections in order to be represented in political institutions and to exercise political power on any level, national or local, and may therefore be subject to specific requirements not necessary for other civil society organizations. According to the European Court of Human Rights, it is in the nature of the role they play that political parties, the only bodies which can come to power, also have the capacity to influence the whole of the regime in their countries. By the proposals for an overall societal model which they put before the electorate and by their capacity to implement those proposals once they come to power, political parties differ from other organizations which intervene in the political arena.
- 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
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Personnes concernées
- All
- Année
- 2013
- Type de paragraphe
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Assembly, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/299, para. 30.
- Paragraph number
- 30
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