GENEVA (17 June 2016) – Fundamentalism understood broadly is fuelling growing intolerance worldwide, which poses a grave threat to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, United Nations expert Maina Kiai told the Human Rights Council today in presenting his latest report exploring the impact of religious, free market, political, and nationalist or cultural fundamentalisms. For the Special Rapporteur, the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association are the "bedrock" of tolerance, because they help ensure that “all of humanity, in its stunning diversity, has a voice.” Download the full advance report in English. Read the news release in English.