freedom of association

1. The right to form societies, clubs, and other groups of people, and to meet with people individually, without interference by the government.

Example Sentences

Earlier, Business Secretary Peter Kyle said marchers were "demonstrating freedom of association and freedom of speech".

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Business Secretary Peter Kyle said marchers were demonstrating freedom of association and freedom of speech, after up to 150,000 joined a "Unite the Kingdom" rally, organised by Robinson and about 5,000 took part in a counter-protest, co-ordinated by Stand Up To Racism.

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On a more positive note, the report also highlighted how "the government effectively enforced laws protecting freedom of association, collective bargaining, and the right of workers to engage in a strike or other industrial action".

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Those systems possessed many, if not all, of the features of modern authoritarian regimes, such as widespread surveillance, mass incarceration, policing of borders and limits on travel and freedom of association, thought crimes, book bans, suppression of civil society and voting, censorship, paramilitaries, legal and extralegal violence on a massive scale, one-party rule, a system of tiered citizenship and belonging, a corrupt elite class, and systematic violations of human and civil rights.

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“No matter how you feel about what Israel is doing to Gaza this is purely a freedom of speech and freedom of association issue. That’s explicitly what they’re doing. If they wanted to do something else they could,” Cameron said.

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