Factsheet: The right to freedom of peaceful assembly best practices

The Special Rapporteur’s factsheet summarizing best practices on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, presented in an easy-to use “yes/no” format, with hyperlinks to source materials.

This factsheet draws heavily from the Special Rapporteur’s 2012 report to the Human Rights Council and features guidance on:

• • Permits and notification procedures for peaceful assemblies
• • State obligations to uphold the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
• • Permissible limitations on the right
• • The role of third-party monitors and journalists at peaceful assemblies
• • The status of spontaneous assemblies
• • Assembly rights during election periods
• • Remedies for the violation of assembly rights
• • Use of force and what authorities should do in response to violence
• • And more

For the Special Rapporteur’s full factsheet series, please see: http://freeassembly.net/factsheets/