ONLINE UNESCO DICTIONARY
MINORITIES
(RIGHTS OF)
UNICCPR Article
UNDRM
Article 1 1. States shall protect the existence and the national or
ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their
respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the promotion of that
identity. 2. States shall adopt appropriate legislative and other measures to
achieve those ends. Article 2 1. Persons belonging to
national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities ...have the right to
enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise
their own religion, and to use their own language, in private and in public,
freely and without interference or any form of discrimination... . Article 3 1. Persons belonging to minorities may exercise
their rights, including those set forth in the present Declaration,
individually as well as in community with other members of their group, without
any discrimination. 2. No disadvantage shall result for any person belonging to
a minority as the consequence of the exercise or non-exercise of the rights set
forth in the present Declaration.
VDPA 19. Considering the importance of the promotion and
protection of the rights of persons belonging to minorities and the
contribution of such promotion and protection to the political and social stability
of the States in which such persons live, The World Conference on Human Rights
reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to
minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental
freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law in
accordance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National
or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. The persons belonging to
minorities have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion and to use their own language
in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of
discrimination.
DHDR Article 31 The Duty and Responsibility to Respect and Protect the
Rights of Minorities 1 Members of the global community have collective, as well
as individual duties and responsibilities, to take appropriate action to
respect and protect the existence, identity and rights of national, ethnic,
religious and linguistic minorities. 2 States have the primary duty and
responsibility to take measures to respect and protect the rights of national,
ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities within their territory or under
their jurisdiction.