435 Basic Principles
Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials (adopted at the Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Havana, 27 August to 7 September 1990), UN Doc. A/CONF.144/28/Rev.1 at 112, Principle 2; UN Human Rights Council, Joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on the proper management of assemblies, UN Doc. A/HRC/31/66, 4 February 2016, paras. 52-55; UN Human Rights Council, Resolution 25/38 on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests, UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/25/38, 11 April 2014, para. 14; UN Human Rights Committee, General comment No. 37 (2020) on the right of peaceful assembly (article 21), UN Doc. CCPR/C/GC/37, 17 September 2020, para. 81; IACHR, Second Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas, OEA/Ser.L/V/II, Doc. 66, 31 December 2011, para. 143; IACHR, Annual Report 2015, March 17, 2016, Chapter IV.A, para. 15; OSCE-ODIHR and Venice Commission, Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, 2nd edn, 2010, Guideline 5.5 and Explanatory Notes, para. 172.
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