The present report is the fourth by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolutions 15/21 and 24/5. In sections I and II of the report, the Special Rapporteur provides an overview of the activities he carried out between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2015. In section III, he addresses legislation and practices concerning natural resource exploitation that present challenges to the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. The Special Rapporteur outlines his conclusions and recommendations to various stakeholders in section IV.