New Tool Helps Civil Society Score Their Governments

The UN is launching a new online tool, “The 10 Principles Implementation Checklist,” that will help activists score, and assess how closely their public authorities follow international law while managing public assemblies. The checklist is built on the “10 Guiding Principles” highlighted in the UN Special Rapporteur’s March 2016 report, “Practical Recommendations for the Management of Assemblies” (A/HRC/31/66). The report was a collaboration between Maina Kiai, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and Christof Heyns, Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. The checklist provides actionable strategies for governments to integrate human rights law into their management of public assemblies.

Civil society members are encouraged to share and tweet the score to the UN Special Rapporteur using the Twitter handle: @MainaKiai_UNSR. Maina Kiai is currently serving as a member of the World Movement for Democracy’s Steering Committee.