A/HRC/35/28 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Special Rapporteur ............................................................................................. 3 A. Country visits ........................................................................................................................ 3 B. Communications ................................................................................................................... 3 C. Participation in various events .............................................................................................. 3 Achievements of civil society ....................................................................................................... 4 A. Objective, scope and limitations of the report ...................................................................... 4 B. Imagining a world without civil society ............................................................................... 6 C. Civil society’s achievements ................................................................................................ 10 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 20 III. IV. 2