Key-Points<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt is tasked with monitoring how countries implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1976, which under Article 21 guarantees the right to peaceful assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To gather to celebrate or to air grievances in public and in private spaces, outdoors, indoors and online is a fundamental human right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone, including children, foreign nationals, women, migrant workers, asylum seekers and refugees, can exercise the right of peaceful assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Protesters have the right to wear masks or hoods to cover their face and that Governments should not collect personal data to harass or intimidate participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governments could not prohibit protests by making \u201cgeneralised references to public order or public safety, or an unspecified risk of potential violence\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governments cannot block internet networks or close down any website because of their roles in organising or soliciting a peaceful assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Committee\u2019s interpretation will be important guidance for judges in national and regional courts around the world, as it now forms part of what is known as \u2018soft law\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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