A. International Documents
• ILO, Guidelines for the Police and Military to apply Freedom of Association and Right to Collective Bargaining (2013)
• UN CERD, General Recommendation No. 31: Prevention of Racial Discrim-ination in the Administration and Functioning of the Criminal Justice Sys-tem, (Sixty-seventh session, 2005), A/60/18 (SUPP)
• UN CERD, General Recommendation No. 35: Combating racist hate speech, 26 September 2013, CERD/C/GC/35
• UN Committee against Torture, Concluding observation of the fourth peri-odic report of Belarus, 7 December 2011, CAT/C/BLR/CO/4
• UN CRC, General Comment No. 2: The Role of Independent National Human Rights Institutions in the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child, 15 November 2002, CRC/GC/2002/2
• UN CRC, General Comment No. 5 (2003): General measures of implemen-tation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 27 November 2003, CRC/GC/2002/5
• UN General Assembly, Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Indi-viduals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, G.A. res. 53/144, annex, 53 U.N. GAOR Supp., U.N. Doc. A/RES/53/144 (1999)
• UN General Assembly, Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities, G.A. res. 47/135, annex, 47 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 210, U.N. Doc. A/47/49 (1993)
• UN General Assembly, Declaration on the Human Rights of Individuals Who are not Nationals of the Country in which They Live, G.A. res. 40/144, annex, 40 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 53) at 252, U.N. Doc. A/40/53 (1985)
• UN Human Rights Committee, General Comment No. 34 on the Freedom of Expression and Opinion, 12 September 2011, CCPR/C/GC/34
• UN Human Rights Committee, General comment No. 25: Article 25 (Partic-ipation in Public Affairs and the Right to Vote), 12 July 1996, CCPR/C/21/
Rev.1/Add.7
• UN Human Rights Council, Civil society space: creating and maintaining, in law and in practice, a safe and enabling environment, 9 October 2013, A/
HRC/RES/24/21
• UN Human Rights Council, The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, 8 October 2013, A/HRC/RES/24/5
• UN Human Rights Council, The rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, 11 October 2012, A/HRC/RES/21/16
• UN Human Rights Council, Resolution 15/21 on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, 17 June 2011, A/HRC/RES/15/21
• UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Report to the UN Human Rights Council (Threats to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association for groups most at risk), UN Doc. A/HRC/26/29, 14 April 2014
• UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Report to the UN Human Rights Council (Funding of asso-ciations and holding of peaceful assemblies), UN Doc. A/HRC/23/39, 24 April 2013
• UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Report to the UN Human Rights Council (Best practices that promote and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association), UN Doc. A/HRC/20/27, 21 May 2012
• UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, U.N. A/HRC/13/37, 28 December 2009
• Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Guidelines on national preventive mechanisms, 9 December 2010, CAT/OP/12/5
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, Adopted by the World Con-ference on Human Rights in Vienna on 25 June 1993
B. Council of Europe Documents
• Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, Report by the Expert Council on NGO Law on “Sanctions and Liability in Respect of NGOs” (January 2011), available at http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Source/
Expert_Council_NGO_Law_report_2010_en.pdf
• Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, Report by the Expert Council on NGO Law on “Internal Governance of NGOs”
(January 2010), available at http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Source/
Expert_Council_NGO_Law_report_2009_en.pdf
• Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe, Report by the Expert Council on NGO Law on “Conditions of Establishment of NGOs”
(January 2009), available at http://www.coe.int/t/ngo/Source/
Expert_Council_NGO_Law_report_2008_en.pdf
• Council of Europe, Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)14 of the Committee of Ministers to member states on the legal status of non-governmental organisations in Europe, Strasbourg, 10 October 2007
• Council of Europe, Fundamental Principles on the Status of Non-govern-mental Organisations in Europe and explanatory memorandum, Stras-bourg, 13 November 2002
• Council of Europe, Guidelines to promote the development and strength-ening of NGOs in Europe, Multilateral meeting organised by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Japan Foundation, Strasbourg, 23 - 25 March 1998
C. OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission Guidelines
• OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission, Joint Guidelines on the Legal Per-sonality of Religious or Belief Communities (2014)
• OSCE/ODIHR, Guidelines on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (2014)
• OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission, Joint Guidelines on Political Party Regulation (2011)
• OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission, Joint Guidelines on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly (2nd edition, 2010)
• OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission, Guidelines for Review of Legisla-tion Pertaining to Religion or Belief (2004)
Legal Opinions
• Venice Commission, “Opinion on the Law on Non-Governmental Organ-isations (Public Associations and Funds) as amended of the Republic of Azerbaijan”, CDL-AD(2014)043 (15 December 2014)
• Venice Commission, “Compilation of Venice Commission Opinions on Freedom of Association”, CDL-PI(2014)004 (3 July 2014)
• OSCE/ODIHR and Venice Commission, “Joint Interim Opinion on the Draft Law amending the Law on Non-Commercial Organisations and other Leg-islative Acts of the Kyrgyz Republic”, CDL-AD(2013)030 (16 October 2013)
• Venice Commission, “Interim Opinion on the Draft Law on Civic Work Organisations of Egypt”, CDL-AD(2013)023 (18 June 2013)
• Venice Commission, “Opinion on the Federal law on combating extremist activity of the Russian Federation”, CDL-AD(2012)016 (20 June 2012)
• Venice Commission, “Opinion on the compatibility with human rights standards of the legislation on non-governmental organisations of the Republic of Azerbaijan”, CDL-AD(2011)035 (19 October 2011)
• Venice Commission, “Opinion on the compatibility with universal human rights standards of article 193-1 of the criminal code on the rights of non-registered associations of the Republic of Belarus”, CDL-AD(2011)036 (18 October 2011)
• OSCE/ODIHR, “Comments on the Law of Turkmenistan on Public Associ-ations” (22 June 2010)
D. Books and Articles
• Brown, Ian, “Report on Online Freedom Expression, Assembly and Associ-ation and the Media in Europe”, MCM(2013)007
• Conte, A. and Burchill, R., “Defining Civil and Political Rights: The Jurispru-dence of the United Nations Human Rights Committee”, second edition (Ashgate, 2009)
• Jacobs, White and Ovey, “The European Convention on Human Rights”, fifth edition (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Nowak, Manfred, “U.N. Convention on Civil and Political Rights: CCPR Commentary”, second revised edition (Publisher N.P. Engel, 2005)
• Rutzen, Douglas and Zenn, Jacob, “Association and Assembly in the Digital Age”, International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law / vol. 13, no. 4, Decem-ber 2011 / 53
• Van Dijk, Van Hoof , Van Rijn et.al.,(eds) “Theory and Practice of the Euro-pean Convention on Human Rights”, fourth Edition (Intersentia, 2006)
• Van Der Schyff, “Limitation of Rights: A Study of the European Convention and the South African Bill of Rights” (Wolf Legal Publications, 2005)