A/HRC/32/36/Add.2 (b) Ensure that the legal framework affecting those rights conforms to international human rights norms, including by providing an objective and detailed framework through which decisions restricting rights are made, while ensuring that restrictions are the exception and not the rule. Limitations to the rights must be in furtherance of a legitimate aim, prescribed by law, proportionate to the aim pursued and necessary in a democratic society; (c) Ratify outstanding key international human rights and labour treaties and remove the reservation to article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; (d) Ensure that victims of violations and abuses of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association have the right to effective remedies. Recommendations on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly 95. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) the law to: Amend the Assemblies and Demonstrations Act and implementation of (i) Ensure that at most a prior notification and not a de facto authorization regime regulates the exercise of the right to peaceful assembly; (ii) Prevent blanket bans on times when and locations where assemblies can be held; (iii) Ensure that assemblies are presumed to be lawful in accordance with international human rights law standards; (b) Review the tactics used for the management of assemblies, including the use of water cannon and bus barricades, to ensure that they are not applied indiscriminately or against peaceful protestors, that they do not result in an escalation of tension and are directed at facilitating rather than preventing the exercise of assembly rights; (c) Provide adequately trained and experienced police officers to manage assemblies and refrain from deploying conscripted youth for that purpose; (d) Ensure that assembly participants are not investigated or held criminally or civilly liable for taking part in gatherings and that the principle of individual liability for unlawful actions is upheld, including in respect of assembly organizers; (e) Ensure that the rights of all categories of assembly participants, including persons with disabilities, youth, women, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons, monitors and the media are upheld during the management of assemblies. Recommendations on the right to freedom of association 96. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government: (a) Ensure that the establishment of associations, including trade unions and political parties: (i) 20 Is subject at most to a notification process;

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