Former UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kaia, launches FOAA Online. In May 2017, former UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kaia, launched FOAA Online, which provides easily accessible legal arguments to assist lawyers, activists and…
UN Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Prof. Annalisa Ciampi, to speak at side event on expanding civic space within the United Nations during the United Nations Generally Assembly in New York in October 2017. As national governments across the world impose greater restrictions on the rights…
EIGHTH ASSEMBLY – SESSION REPORTS The Eighth Assembly attendees participated in more than 50 sessions throughout the conference whose topics were built on the foundation of the World Movement for Democracy’s Steering Committee statement, “A Call for Democratic Renewal.” In the statement, the Steering Committee highlights four core dimensions under which the international democratic community…
On August 15, 2017, Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal sentenced Nathan Law to eight months in prison for organizing over 200,000 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement demonstrators on a 79-day blockade in the business districts of Hong Kong three years ago. Fellow organizers Joshua Wong and Alex Chow were also tried and sentenced to six and seven months in…