A/HRC/32/36/Add.2 Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association on his mission to the Republic of Korea** Contents Page I. Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Background and context ................................................................................................................... 3 III. International legal framework .......................................................................................................... 4 IV. Situation of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association ..................................... 5 A. Freedom of peaceful assembly ................................................................................................ 6 B. Freedom of association ............................................................................................................ 10 V. Sewol ferry disaster .......................................................................................................................... 17 VI. National Human Rights Commission of Korea ................................................................................ 18 VII. Conclusions and recommendations .................................................................................................. 19 ** 2 Circulated in the language of submission only.