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humanitarian assistance or social benefits, and to ensure that everyone has the right
and the opportunity to have access, on general terms of equality, to public services
in one’s country, without any discrimination on the basis of religion or belief;
(e) To review, whenever relevant, existing registration practices in order to
ensure that such practices do not limit the right of all persons to manifest their
religion or belief, either alone or in community with others and in public or private;
(f) To ensure that no official documents are withheld from the individual on
the grounds of religion or belief and that everyone has the right to refrain from
disclosing information concerning one’s religious affiliation on such documents
against one’s will;
(g) To ensure, in particular, the right of all persons to worship, assemble or
teach in connection with a religion or belief and their right to establish and maintain
places for these purposes and the right of all persons to write, issue and disseminate
relevant publications in these areas;
(h) To exert the utmost efforts, in accordance with their national legislation
and in conformity with international human rights law, to ensure that religious
places, sites, shrines and symbols are fully respected and protected and to take
additional measures in cases where they are vulnerable to desecration and
destruction;
(i) To ensure that, in accordance with appropriate national legislation and in
conformity with international human rights law, the freedom of all persons and
members of groups to establish and maintain religious, charitable or humanitarian
institutions is fully respected and protected;
(j) To ensure that all public officials and civil servants, including members
of law enforcement bodies and personnel of detention facilities, the military and
educators, in the course of fulfilling their official duties, respect freedom of religion
or belief and do not discriminate for reasons based on religion or belief, and that all
necessary and appropriate awareness-raising, education or training is provided;
(k) To take all necessary and appropriate action, in conformity with
international standards of human rights, to combat hatred, discrimination, intolerance
and acts of violence, intimidation and coercion motivated by intolerance based on
religion or belief, as well as incitement to hostility and violence, with particular
regard to members of religious minorities in all parts of the world;
(l) To promote, through education and other means, understanding,
tolerance, non-discrimination and respect in all matters relating to freedom of
religion or belief by encouraging a wider knowledge in the society at large of the
history, traditions, languages and culture of the various religious minorities existing
within their jurisdiction;
(m) To prevent any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on
religion or belief which impairs the recognition, enjoyment or exercise of human
rights and fundamental freedoms on an equal basis, and to detect signs of
intolerance that may lead to discrimination based on religion or belief;
12. Stresses the importance of a continued and strengthened dialogue in all
its forms, including among and within religions or beliefs, and with broader
participation, including of women, to promote greater tolerance, respect and mutual
understanding, and welcomes different initiatives in this regard, including the
Alliance of Civilizations and the programmes led by the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization;
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