GENEVA (21 September 2016) – The Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, just launched, along with his latest report, "The 10 Principles Implementation Checklist", which is a tool for rating countries' management of assemblies. The checklist is a companion publication to the March 2016 Human Rights Council report on "practical recommendations for the management of assemblies" (A/HRC/31/66), which was authored by Kiai and the former Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns.
The checklist, which is based on 100 indicators from the recommendations of that report, invites users to evaluate whether the targets were met, with the ultimate goal of assessing how well authorities manage assemblies. The indicators take the entire spectrum of “managing an assembly” into account and include the activities and measures before, during and after an assembly or protest takes place. The checklist can be downloaded here.