peaceful assembly

Protesters gather at a park in Brooklyn, New York City to demonstrate against racism and police violence.

UN News/Daniel Dickinson

How do you define lawful peaceful protest? The UN Human Rights Committee has a clear answer

29 July 2020

People have the right to demonstrate peacefully and Governments should respect international law and let them do so, senior UN-appointed independent rights experts said on Wednesday.

“Historic racial targeting” in the US is “dangerous” for peaceful assembly

28 July 2016

General News

The ‘historic racial targeting by police’ can be dangerous for citizens’ rights to peacefully assemble in the United States.

That’s according to Maina Kiai, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to peaceful assembly and of association.

Kiai has been touring countries to assess the state of their civil rights.

For the last four months he has been in the US.

Maina Kiai, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association.

UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Malaysia: UN experts warn new bill restricts right to peaceful assembly

7 December 2011

A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today warned that a new bill in Malaysia restricts the right to peaceful assembly with measures such as a ban on street protests and conditional access for media to public gatherings.

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