A/HRC/23/39
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
24 April 2013
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty third session
Agenda item 3
Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights,
including the right to development
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to
freedom of peaceful assembly and of association,
Maina Kiai
Summary
The Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association presents the mandate’s second thematic report to the Human Rights Council,
pursuant to Council resolutions 15/21 and 21/16.
In chapters I and II of the report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of
activities he carried out between 1 May 2012 and 28 February 2013.
In chapters III and IV, the Special Rapporteur addresses two issues he considers to
be among the most significant ones of his mandate, namely funding of associations and
holding of peaceful assemblies.
The Special Rapporteur outlines his conclusions and recommendations in chapter V.
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