These Guidelines, published in 2015, aim to ensure that legislation is drafted with the purpose of promoting the establishment and existence of associations, enabling their operation and facilitating their aims and activities.

The constitutional guarantee of freedom of assembly is supplemented by a wide range of secondary legislation in Turkey.

This country note by Caterina Scuderi reviews constitutional provisions and two other main laws regulating assemblies in Italy.

On 16 August 2012, members of the South African Police Service (“SAPS”) lethally shot 34 people at Lonmin Mine, Marikana.

The respect for the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association has long been tenuous in Russia.

This 2014 Amnesty International report raises human rights concerns on law enforcement response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, such as intimation of protestors, dispersal of protests, restrictions on media and accountability of law enforcement.

This report presents the findings of the monitoring of public events undertaken by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in selected OSCE participating States between May 2013 and July 2014.

This 2014 report by the UN Secretary General synthesizes input on the the Post-2015 Agenda.

A paper detailing the outcomes of an African regional workshop on “Protecting Civic Space” on November 17-18, 2014 at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. 

The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are equally fundamental and protected at the national and multilateral levels.