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1/22 Some thoughts on how the #PoliceCrimeSentencingCourtsBill falls far short of international standards on the right of #PeacefulAssembly – especially the UN Human Rights Committee's recently adopted #GeneralComment37 on #Article21 ICCPR
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2/22 “States must promote an enabling environment for the exercise of the right of #peacefulassembly without discrimination, and put in place a legal and institutional framework within which the right can be exercised effectively” (#GeneralComment37, para 24) …
3/22 The #PolicingBill fundamentally undermines an effective right of peaceful assembly by failing to recognize that assemblies “are a legitimate use of public and other spaces” which “may entail by their very nature a certain level of disruption to ordinary life” (GC37, para 47)
