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Categories 1. Civil and Political Rights 2. Property 3. Private and Family life 4. Freedom of Expression 5. Freedom of thought conscience and religion 6. Equality and non-discrimination 7. Access to Services 8. Tolerance, mutual respect and understanding 9. Protection of Minorities 2

3 Civil and Political rights  International covenant on civil and political rights  General comment 21  CESCR  UN Declaration on the rights of person belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities  UNESCO Convention on the protection and promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

4 Property  Universal Declaration of Human Rights  ECHR Article 1 protocol No 1

5 Private and Family Life  Article 17 International Covenant on civil and political rights  Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights

6 Freedom of Expression  ICCPR article 19  ICCPR at article 20  General comment 11  Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights

7 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion  ICCPR article 18  Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Equality and Non-Discrimination  ICCPR article 26  CEDAW  ISCESR  CRC  CRPD  Durban Declaration and Programme of Action  Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights 8

9 Access to services  UDHR  ICESR  CRC  Article 11 of the European social Chart

10 Tolerance, mutual respect & understanding  CERD  UNESCO has produced a Declaration of Principles on Tolerance and a Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression  European Court of Human Rights  Framework Convention for National Minorities

Protection of Minorities  ICCPR article 17  General comment 23  CRC  Article 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights  OSCE Ljubhana guidelines 11

Parades  Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights  “the rights of others” Article 11(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights  Articles 8, 10, 17 of the European Convention on Human Rights  The Framework Convention for National Minorities (Council of Europe)  Article 20(2) of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)  Article 4 of the International Covenant for the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) 12