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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 67
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- An environment that allows for the robust exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association is essential in ensuring that natural resource exploitation is fair, transparent and accountable and benefits citizens. These rights encourage access to information, public participation and free, prior and informed consent and also highlight the gaps in the enjoyment of other rights related to land tenure, the environment and self-determination. The Special Rapporteur believes that the more consultation on any particular exploitation issue, the better. He also wishes to highlight that the benefits of such consultation - and the improved planning that results from extensive consultation - can be immense for society at large. One example is the Government Pension Fund Global of Norway, which was set up in 1990 to hold surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income. It is now the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 18
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- The complexities of influence between the host State and States of origin is replicated among corporations, where parent companies domiciled in one State may have subsidiaries in other countries exercising various degrees of influence on the policies and practices of the latter entities. Furthermore, international and national financial institutions often have a significant stake in natural resource exploitation activities that they may be supporting financially. Their actions or inaction, primarily through the leverage they have as financiers, could have an impact on the human rights of affected communities, including peaceful assembly and association rights. The Special Rapporteur subscribes to the premise that international human rights law ascribes the primary duties to States, acting individually or as members of multilateral institutions. These obligations apply within the territory of the State and extraterritorially. Similarly, non-State actors have responsibilities in relation to human rights, as will be discussed below.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 7
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- Increased demand for resources has resulted in the opening up of more areas for exploration and exploitation, especially in populated areas, leading to conflict between competing interests. By some accounts, between 93 and 99 per cent of 73,000 mining, logging, agriculture, oil and gas concessions in eight tropical forested countries were inhabited. The same sources indicate that, for example, up to 40 per cent of the territory of Peru has been handed over by the Government to private for-profit entities to exploit natural resources and that in Liberia and in Indonesia 35 and 30 per cent, respectively, of the land is in the hands of the private sector for exploitation operations. The existence of widespread social conflict associated with natural resource exploitation is therefore not surprising. For example, in Peru, the Ombudsman's Office documented 211 social conflicts in the month of February 2015, 66 per cent of which were related to natural resource exploitation. In Colombia, the Ombudsman's Office participated in 218 dialogues between mining companies, protestors and the Government.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 48
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- It is worth emphasizing that peaceful protests are typically a measure of last resort, when scope for effective engagement with the authorities or businesses is otherwise limited. In some cases, communities may have gone through consultation processes only to find them, from their perspective, improperly conducted, compromised, corrupt or otherwise unsatisfactory. In other cases, agreements reached between the parties may not be not adhered to. For example in Myanmar, protests against the Monywa Copper Project were allegedly sparked in 2012 when the corporation involved in the mining operations reneged on an agreement with affected villagers to halt operations pending negotiations with them. Police later moved in to disperse the peaceful protest camps using inordinate force (see A/HRC/25/64, para. 28). A failure by a company to abide by a contract signed with the owners of community territory in La Sierrita de Galeana in Mexico also resulted in a peaceful protest that was violently dispersed, allegedly under the instructions of company officials.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ability of associations to access financial resources as a vital part of the right to freedom of association & Ability to hold peaceful assemblies as an integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 2013, para. 9
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- Legal frameworks and policies related to resources have a significant impact on the freedom of association; they can strengthen the effectiveness and facilitate the sustainability of associations or, alternatively, subjugate associations to a dependent and weak position. Moreover, for associations promoting human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights, or those involved in service delivery (such as disaster relief, health-care provision or environmental protection), access to resources is important, not only to the existence of the association itself, but also to the enjoyment of other human rights by those benefitting from the work of the association. Hence, undue restrictions on resources available to associations impact the enjoyment of the right to freedom of association and also undermine civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights as a whole.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The Special Rapporteur's vision of the mandate 2017, para. 37
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- In his fourth report to the Human Rights Council (A/HRC/29/25), on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association in the context of natural resource exploitation, the previous mandate holder examined the role that those rights played in opening up space for genuine and effective participation across the spectrum of natural resource exploitation activities. He also examined how those rights helped to foster increased transparency and accountability, facilitate constructive dialogue and, ultimately, form the basis for people’s ability to secure other substantive rights. In the report, he noted that the significance of civil society as a stakeholder in the context of natural resource exploitation was underestimated, misperceived and often denied by both States and businesses and that that was symptomatic of a growing disregard for a plurality of views, particularly those which championed non-economic values over economic ones. He argued that such disregard for civil society input was counterproductive and divisive and likely to contribute to an erosion of confidence in the world’s prevailing economic system. He concluded that it was in the interest of both States and corporations to recognize actions by civil society groups, both in support of and against the entire decision-making chain in natural resource governance, as a legitimate exercise by those individuals and groups of their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2017
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 74c
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that civil society:] Increase and enhance engagement and participation in multi-stakeholder initiatives, through which civil society has the opportunity to engage in decision-making on natural resource governance;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 74b
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that civil society:] Strengthen research, monitoring and documentation capacity of violations of peaceful assembly and association rights in the context of natural resource exploitation;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 24c
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- [A notable shortcoming of the voluntary obligations for corporations is that they do not go far enough in ensuring that both States and businesses are held accountable for any failures to comply with them, nor do they encourage robust oversight by Governments of actions by businesses that may violate human rights. Several documents set out voluntary human rights obligations for companies in relation to human rights in general and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in particular. These include:] The Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, designed specifically for the extractive industries sector, to help companies maintain the safety and security of their operations while maintaining respect for human rights. The Voluntary Principles acknowledge the primary role of Governments for maintaining law and order and ensuring human rights. Furthermore, the Principles state that companies should use their influence (i) to ensure that individuals implicated in human rights abuses do not provide security services for companies; (ii) to limit the use of force to circumstances when it is strictly necessary and to an extent proportional to the threat; and (iii) to ensure that the human rights of individuals are not violated, including the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 22
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- Although States often refer to the permissible limitations embedded in the provisions and instruments cited above, the Special Rapporteur reiterates that the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association should be viewed as the rule and the limitations as the exception (see A/HRC/20/27, para. 16). States may only limit the rights in strictly defined circumstances necessitated by narrowly defined "legitimate reasons". Such restrictions must be prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public safety, public order, the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. They must also be proportionate to the pursuance of legitimate aims. Thus, a blanket prohibition of protests outside business premises or surrounding the operations of mining, resource and forestry companies would be unjustifiable under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Similarly, broad definitions of "vital installations" or "national interests" that encompass business premises engaged in natural resource exploitation, with a view to shielding them from peaceful assemblies, would not meet international human rights law standards.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 36
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- The obligations of States to ensure the respect of human rights by corporations engaged in natural resource exploitation in their own territory is clear. Less well-developed and understood are the extraterritorial obligations of States arising from the international human rights standards to which they have voluntarily acceded. At a minimum, States of origin should ensure that victims of human rights violations have effective judicial remedies. Doing so also entails a monitoring responsibility to ensure that companies operating abroad adhere to international human rights standards. States from the global North and Brazil, China, India, the Russian Federation and South Africa, where many of the companies engaged in natural resource exploitation around the world are domiciled, have an especially important role to play in this regard. For example, civil society groups in Latin America have in public hearings at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights highlighted the significant role of Canadian companies in human rights violations in the region, and the support provided by the Government of Canada, despite these allegations.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 34
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- Legal mechanisms, such as injunctions, civil damages and trespass and defamation suits, are often used to curtail the work of civil society organizations and individuals engaged in defending rights in the context of natural resource exploitation. The increasing use of socalled "strategic litigation against public participation" suits is of concern because of the chilling effect the proceedings may have on the legitimate expression of dissent or opposition, including through peaceful protest. These suits may be brought by corporations against individuals or associations that are critical of natural resource exploitation activities in order to intimidate them or deter them from their work by burdening them with litigation costs and damages they may be unable to pay. The Special Rapporteur emphasizes that an independent judiciary should play a positive role in recognizing and upholding international human rights standards , especially in contexts where human rights defenders and communities are subjected to legal proceedings for exercising their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 27
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- The objective of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative is to promote openness and accountability in the management of natural resource exploitation through a global standard. Implementation and monitoring of the standard is overseen by an international board and national multi-stakeholder groups, consisting of representatives from Governments, companies and civil society representatives. The underlying rationale is that the management of natural resources in any country is a shared interest and can only be effective when all stakeholders have access to relevant information and are able to act on this information to promote sustainable economic and social development. To achieve the objectives of the Initiative, implementing countries are required, among other things, to ensure that an enabling environment exists for civil society to engage in the process and express views related to natural resource governance, including in relation to laws, regulations and administrative rules and practice. In its civil society protocol, the Initiative outlines that the rights of civil society to expression, operation, association, engagement and access to public decision-making in the implementing countries must be respected.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 26
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- Initiatives such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership enshrine the role of citizens in policymaking processes, including those related to natural resource governance.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of multilateral institutions 2014, para. 87c
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- [The Special Rapporteur calls, therefore, upon multilateral institutions to:] Encourage diversity of perspectives and geography among civil society organization representatives;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the workplace 2016, para. 87
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- For example, despite well-documented, systematic and decades-long violations of freedom of association in Colombia, the United States signed a free trade agreement with the country in 2012. Four years later, unions, frustrated by lax enforcement and lack of political will, filed a trade complaint charging widespread and ongoing violations of freedom of association in the petroleum and sugar cane sectors. Canadian unions have filed a similar complaint under their country's bilateral trade agreement with Colombia.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2016
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 73d
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that corporations:] Subscribe to and increase the quality of participation in and implementation of existing multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership; participating corporations should strengthen their role in respecting the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the framework of these initiatives;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 72e
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that States:] Subscribe to and increase the quality of implementation of existing multi-stakeholder initiatives, such as the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and the Open Government Partnership, which encourage civil society participation in the governance of natural resources; participating States should strengthen the role of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in these initiatives;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 56
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- The Special Rapporteur reiterates that the primary responsibility for ensuring public security, law and order for the benefit of all within a State's boundaries lies with the Government of that State. The State should also regulate, control and monitor the activities of private security firms, including those contracted in the natural resource exploitation sector, and hold them accountable when they breach the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 54
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- An issue of significant concern to the Special Rapporteur is the use of private military and security companies to protect the property and facilities of corporations engaged in natural resource exploitation. These companies may be contracted by the corporations or, as in the case of Equatorial Guinea, by the Government (see A/HRC/18/32/Add.2, para. 46). Companies may also have contracts with Governments to have members of the police force seconded to them, as in Somalia (Puntland) (see A/HRC/24/45/Add.2, para. 24).
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 15
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- States also have an obligation to prevent conflict before it starts, including by creating a legal environment that promotes transparency and fairness. The area of land rights, for example, is often key. The absence of legal frameworks that clearly spell out land rights creates opportunities for arbitrary expropriation or land grabbing, which in turn can lead to conflict. Opaque procedures for granting exploitation licences and concessions aggravate the situation and often fuel social protests.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 6
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- The global economy relies heavily on the availability and exploitation of natural resources. With the industrialization of emerging economies and the ever-increasing needs of older market-economy countries, the demand for natural resources has increased dramatically. With that demand has come a plethora of concerns relating to the sustainability of economic growth and its impact on the climate, the environment and, more generally, on human rights.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 47
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- The Special Rapporteur has received numerous reports concerning violations of the rights of human rights defenders, activists and community members who exercised their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly in the context of natural resource exploitation. Civil society activists in countries such as Colombia (A/HRC/28/85, case COL 7/2014), the Philippines (A/HRC/27/72, case PHL 2/2014) and Thailand (A/HRC/24/21, case THA 3/2013), to name a few, have paid with their lives for leading advocacy campaigns against natural resource exploitation operations. According to the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, human rights defenders working on extractive and the construction and development projects in the Americas were the subject of most communications to her and faced the highest risk of death as a result of their human rights activities (see A/HRC/19/55, para. 71). In South Africa, over 30 miners at the Marikana Mine were shot and killed by police during a strike, although the workers' action was not entirely peaceful (see A/HRC/22/67 and Corrs.1 and 2, ZAF cases 3/2012). In Guatemala, where agriculture provides the main livelihood for the majority of the population, competition between landowners, farmers, indigenous communities and their associations and large-scale commercial agricultural and mining projects has resulted in the criminalization of social movements and their claims (see A/HRC/26/29/Add.1, paras. 193-199, and A/HRC/10/12, para. 34-35).
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 46
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- Furthermore, perceived leaders of movements or protests are often subjected to particularly egregious violations of their rights, such as disappearances and arbitrary killings in an effort by States and corporations to intimidate and thus disrupt organized efforts to resist exploitation activities. In Orissa, India, anti-mining campaigners have been killed, and 42 women defenders at the forefront of demonstrations against dams were jailed for protesting (see A/HRC/19/55/Add.1, para. 76).
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Women
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 37
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- The Special Rapporteur strongly urges all Governments to weigh carefully their involvement in natural resource exploitation activities that have the potential to violate human rights. Introspection is especially needed in view of the State practice of merging foreign affairs, trade and international development portfolios and thus encouraging the alignment of sometimes disparate objectives.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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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. 11
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- For the purposes of the report, the groups most at risk will also include groups and individuals who are targeted not because of their identity, but because they actively lobby for the rights of those most at risk of discrimination and retribution. Human rights defenders, including journalists, trade unionists and environmental activists, among others, face considerable opposition, harassment, stigmatization and even physical attacks from State and non-State actors in many countries.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Environment
- Equality & Inclusion
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of multilateral institutions 2014, para. 41
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- In addition, the Special Rapporteur notes with concern the uneven level of civil society engagement and participation among various United Nations bodies. While he recognizes positive United Nations processes, such as the Major Groups Facilitating Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Special Rapporteur regrets that since 2010 NGOs have been significantly impeded in their attempts to participate as observers in the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2014
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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Ability of associations to access financial resources as a vital part of the right to freedom of association & Ability to hold peaceful assemblies as an integral component of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 2013, para. 62
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- This has also been the case for peaceful protestors advocating economic, social and cultural rights, such as indigenous peoples protesting the exploitation of a coal mine (Bangladesh), local residents denouncing the health impact of nuclear power plants (India), students protesting university reforms (Chile), employees protesting the closure of a mine (Myanmar), activists criticizing the increase in fuel prices (Sri Lanka) or students supporting an ethnic group forcibly displaced by the construction of a dam (Sudan).
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Economic Rights
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Ethnic minorities
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 73f
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that corporations:] Ensure that international law standards relating to public participation and free, prior and informed consent are scrupulously adhered to in negotiations with groups affected by natural resource exploitation activities.
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association in the context of natural resource exploitation projects 2015, para. 73e
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- [The Special Rapporteur recommends that corporations:] Provide avenues for compensation and other redress in the event of human rights violations related to natural resource exploitation activities;
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- Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Topic(s)
- Environment
- Person(s) affected
- N.A.
- Year
- 2015
- Date added
- Aug 19, 2019
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