This 2016 legal analysis by UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai examines India’s Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA) – which regulates foreign funding to certain individuals, associations and companies – and argues that it is not conformity with international law, principles and standards.

This 2016 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Document No. A/HRC/32/20) focuses on examples of practices that optimize civil society’s transformative potential.

This report (A/HRC/31/66) provides guidance on how applicable international human rights standards may be operationalized in domestic law and practice to ensure greater protection of the rights involved.

This General Assembly Resolution calls upon Member States, the UN system and a wide range of stakeholders to support and resource the Plan of Action to integrate volunteering in peace and development during the next decade and beyond.

In this report (A/70/266), Maina Kiai’s third to the United Nations General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association compares the enabling environments that States, multilateral organizations and other actors create for businesses and associations, and highlights instances where they are treated inequitably.

This 2015 UNSECO study provides a comprehensive overview of the core documents about Internet Governance principles developed and adopted by various stakeholders.

In this report (A/HRC/29/25), Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai examines the role that the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association play in opening space for genuine and effective participation across the spectrum of natural resource exploitation activities.

This joint statement urges Member States to recognize, inter alia, that “the inclusion of civil and political rights is a significant step towards a balanced and transformative agenda that addresses freedom from fear along with freedom from want.

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

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