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  

Dear All,

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

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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.

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