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Human Rights Instruments

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  
  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly . The Guinness Book of Records describes the UDHR as the "Most Translated Document" in the world....
   - Article 20
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  
  The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is a United Nations treaty based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, created in 1966 and coming into force on 23 March 1976....
   - Article 21
• European Convention of Human Rights - Article 11
• American Convention on Human Rights
  American Convention on Human Rights
  
  The American Convention on Human Rights is an International human rights instruments.It was adopted by the nations of the Americas meeting in San Jos?, Costa Rica, Costa Rica, in 1969....
   - Article 15

Constitutions

• Canada
  Canada
  
  Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
   - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  
  The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms The Charter was preceded by the Canadian Bill of Rights, which was enacted in 1960. However, the Bill of Rights was only a federal statute, rather than a constitutional document....
   which is Part I of the Constitution of Canada
  Constitution of Canada
  
  The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified Act of Parliaments and uncodified constitution traditions and constitutional convention s....
  
• France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
   - article 431-1 of the Nouveau Code Pénal
• Hong Kong
  Hong Kong
  
  Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
   - Basic Law Section 27
• Article 27 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Republic of Ireland
  Republic of Ireland
  
  Ireland is an Island country in north-western Europe. The modern Sovereignty state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned by the British on 3 May 1921....
   - Guaranteed by Article 40.6.1 of the Constitution of Ireland
  Constitution of Ireland
  
  The Constitution of Ireland came into force on 29 December 1937 after having been passed by a national plebiscite the previous July. The Constitution is the second constitution of Republic of Ireland and replaced the Constitution of the Irish Free State....
  
• Turkey
  Turkey
  
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
   - article 33 and 34 of the Constitution of Turkey
  Constitution of Turkey
  
  The current Constitution of Turkey, ratified in 1982, establishes the organization of the government of the Republic of Turkey and sets out the principles and rules of the state's conduct along with its responsibilities towards its citizens....
   guarantee the freedom of association
  Freedom of association
  
  Freedom of association is the individual right to come together with other individuals and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests....
   and assembly.
• United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   - First Amendment
  First Amendment to the United States Constitution
  
  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that expressly prohibits the United States Congress from making laws "Establishment Clause of the First Amendment" or that prohibit the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, laws that infringe the Freedom of speech in the United State...
   to the Constitution of the United States
  United States Constitution
  
  The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America; the Federal Government of the United States; and all the State & local governments and Territorial Administrative bodies contained therein....
  

See also

• Freedom of assembly in Russia
  Freedom of assembly in Russia
  
  Freedom of assembly in the Russia is granted by Art. 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation adopted in 1993: Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to gather peacefully, without weapons, and to hold meetings, rallies, demonstration , marches and picketing....
  
• Free speech zone
  Free speech zone
  
  Free speech zones are areas set aside in public places for political activists to exercise their right of free speech in the United States....