Consultation - Freedom of Assembly and Association - Best Practices - Deadline 20 January 2012

 

 

Civil Society Section
 
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

  

Consultation

Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Best Practices

Deadline 20 January 2012  

On behalf of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Mr. Maina Kiai, you are invited to complete a questionnaire on best practices that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.
 
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Please send completed questionnaire by 20 January 2012: freeassembly@ohchr.org

Please circulate this message widely among your networks.

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http://goo.gl/7mJIZ
 
 
Background

Resolution 15/21 of the Human Rights Council invited the Special Rapporteur to elaborate a framework through which he should consider best practices to promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. This report is expected to be considered by the Council in June 2012. 

 
Responses to the questionnaire, preferably by way of bullet points, will be annexed to the report for illustrative purposes. If requested, the identity of those who respond to the questionnaire can remain confidential (with only the country of origin disclosed). The questionnaire has also been shared with Member States, national human rights institutions and regional human rights mechanisms.

The deadline for responding to the questionnaire is 20 January 2012. Responses may be addressed to Mr Kiai through the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Email:freeassembly@ohchr.org or Fax: +41 22 917 90 06. The questionnaire is available to download inEnglish, French and Spanish.

Once completed, Mr Kiai's report will be available on the OHCHR website.
 
 
 
 
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Date of Publication: 
Fri, 12/02/2011
Section Features: 
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