The Special Rapporteur’s Assembly and Association Rights Factsheet Series

PUBLISHED: MARCH 2017

This series of factsheets summarizes the reports of former UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Maina Kiai (2011-2017).

Each factsheet covers a particular area of international law and best practice, and contains hyperlinked references to source material.

The series includes thematic factsheets on the following subjects:

  • Best practices for the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
  • Best practices for the right to freedom of association
  • Multilateral organizations and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Civil society’s ability to access resources
  • Natural resource exploitation and the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • A comparison of states’ treatment of businesses and civil society
  • Recommendations on managing assemblies
  • Fundamentalism’s impact on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Assembly and association rights in the workplace
  • Mapping the achievements of civil society

It also includes factsheets summarizing the Rapporteur’s official visits to the following countries:

  • Oman
  • Kazakhstan
  • United States of America