3 2. States Parties shall not deny the human rights of minorities by denying their objective existence or not recognising them. Article 4 States Parties shall ensure, in good faith, the active, free, effective, meaningful and informed participation of minorities, individually and collectively, in decision-making processes that may affect their rights, and in the implementation of any decisions from such processes. Article 5 States Parties shall take all necessary measures to ensure that non-State actors, such as private individuals and organizations, and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, respect and do not interfere with the rights of minorities. Article 6 1. Minorities have the fundamental right to existence. 2. States Parties shall respect and protect the rights of minority communities against: (a) any act committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the existence of a national, ethnical, racial, cultural, linguistic or religious or belief communities; (b) any acts of violence, torture, inhuman degrading punishment, arbitrary arrest and detention deliberately targeted against national, ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic or religious or belief groups, especially in situations of conflict and emergencies; (c) any discriminatory and/or deliberate targeting of national, ethnic, racial, linguistic or religious or belief community as part of emergency or national security laws and measures. 3. Minorities have the right to maintain their identities and not to be subjected to involuntary assimilation or destruction of their culture, religion or belief or language. 4. States Parties shall respect and protect the rights of minority communities against: (a) any act which deprives or has the aim or effect of depriving minorities of their integrity as a distinct community, or of their cultural, religious or belief or linguistic identities; (b) any act which deliberately changes or has the aim or effect of deliberately changing the demographic composition of a region in which a minority is settled, to the detriment of that minority; (c) any act which dispossesses or has the aim or effect of dispossessing minority individuals or communities of their properties, lands, territories, or resources, tangible or intangible heritage, including their community symbols, monuments and artefacts; (d) any act designed to promote or incite or has the aim or effect of promoting or inciting violence, hatred, persecution or discrimination directed against minorities.