E/CN.4/1995/91/Add.1 page 101 The clauses on rights and freedoms in the IG chiefly protect persons who are Swedish citizens. Aliens in Sweden are on a fully equal footing with Swedish citizens with regard to some of the rights and freedoms (sect. 20, para. 1), inter alia, protection against all coercion to participate in any meeting for the formation of opinion or in any demonstration or other expression of opinion, or to belong to any religious congregation or other association (sect. 2, second sentence) and protection against discrimination on grounds of race, skin colour or ethnic origin (sect. 15). Concerning most of the other rights and freedoms, aliens are ranked equally with Swedish citizens, except as otherwise prescribed by special rules of law (sect. 20, para. 2). Among others freedom of speech, information, assembly, association and worship (sects. 1:1-3 and 1:5-6) and protection against all coercion to divulge an opinion (sect. 2, first sentence). In this context it should also be mentioned that the Swedish Parliament recently adopted a law which incorporates the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and Protocols Nos. 1-8 and decided that the former Swedish reservation to the second sentence in article 2 of the first protocol concerning the respect of the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions, shall be deleted. The Swedish dualistic system implies that Sweden’s international undertakings have to be implemented by incorporation or transformation into internal law or administrative regulations in order to be enforced by the authorities concerned. Therefore the incorporation means that, when the law enters into force in January 1995, it will be a part of the Swedish internal law and that private individuals can rely directly on the Convention before Swedish courts, tribunals and administrative authorities will be able to apply it in their decisions. Since 1986 there has been an Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination (DO). The DO’s field of activity encompasses the whole scope of society except for private life. The DO shall pay special attention to ethnic discrimination on the labour market." VENEZUELA 49. On 3 August 1994, the Permanent Mission of Venezuela to the United Nations Office at Geneva transmitted to the Special Rapporteur the observations of the Government of Venezuela on the question of religious intolerance, the text of which reads as follows: "Under Venezuelan law, the basic provisions on this question are set forth in the Constitution and Penal Code. Article 65 of the Constitution stipulates that everyone has the right to profess his religious faith and to practise his religion privately or publicly, provided it is not contrary to the