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• Human Rights Committee (page 120), citing CCPR art. 21 (association), & 25 (voting and
government participation)
• International Labour Organization (page 136) (association and assembly of workers)
• UNESCO Committee on Conventions and Recommendations (page 139) (assembly and association
for cultural, education and scientific purposes)
at the regional level
• African Commission (and Court) on Human and Peoples’ Rights (page 156), citing AfCHPR
arts. 11 (assembly), & 13 (participation in government)
• Inter-American Commission (and Court) on Human Rights (page 171), citing ACHR arts. 15
(assembly), 16 (association) & 23 (participation in government and voting) and/or ADRDM
arts. 20 (participation in government and voting), 21 (assembly), & 22 (association)
• European Court of Human Rights (page 195), citing ECHR art. 11 (assembly and association)
• European Committee of Social Rights (page 198) (association and assembly of workers)
Where restrictions on the rights to association, assembly and public participation amount to a bar
on free expression, the mechanisms beginning on page 41 might also be used.
For children, these issues may also be brought to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (page
131) citing CRC art. 15 (assembly and association). Restrictions particularly targeted against human
rights defenders may be of interest to the mechanisms described on page 24.
Discrimination in the provision of these rights may be brought to the mechanisms in the section
beginning on page 26, citing, in the case of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination (page 124) art. 5 of CERD, and in the case of Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women (page 128), CEDAW art. 7 (equal assembly, association, and participation
in government).
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IDPs may not be arbitrarily deprived of their property or possessions (Guiding Principle 21). This right is
most directly covered by mechanisms at the regional level, where it may be brought to the attention of:
• African Commission (and Court) on Human and Peoples’ Rights (page 156), citing AfCHPR
art. 14
• Inter-American Commission (and Court) on Human Rights (page 171), citing ACHR arts. 21
and/or ADRDM art. 23
• European Court of Human Rights (page 195), citing ECHR protocol 1, art. 1
Discriminatory deprivation of property or possessions may be brought to the attention of the
mechanisms beginning on page 26, citing, in the case of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
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