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International standards
Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Main international standards
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights: article 20(1)
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: articles 21 and 22
- General Comment 25 (Article 25) of the Human Rights Committee (participation in public affairs and the right to vote)
- International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: article 8
- International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: articles 4 and 5(ix)
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: article 7(c)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child: article 15
- International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families: article 26
- International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: article 24(7)
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: article 29
- International Labour Organization (ILO)’s Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise
- ILO’s Convention No. 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining
- ILO’s Convention No. 135 on Workers’ Representatives
- Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms): article 5
Main regional standards
- African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights: articles 10 and 11
- African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: article 8
- American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man: articles 21 and 22
- American Convention on Human Rights: articles 15 and 16
- European Convention on Human Rights: article 11
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union: article 12
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Council of Europe's Commission for Democracy through Law (Venice Commission): Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (2nd edition)
- OSCE/ Venice Commission: Guidelines on Political Party Regulation