23-04-2020
Brief overview on the right to peaceful assembly during a time of pandemic in Europe.
Across the world governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have included introducing wide-ranging, necessary and temporary restrictions on people’s fundamental human rights, including restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly. The restrictions have been imposed through a variety of legal mechanisms, but it is important that both the limitations and their implementation remain proportionate as the context of the pandemic changes, and they are lifted as soon as possible as part of a transition to more normal daily routines.
ECNL prepared a brief overview on legal restrictions and how they have been challenged: