A/HRC/58/54 68. A person belonging to a minority has the right to access information and knowledge about the history, customs, practices and contribution to society as a whole by the minority he or she belongs to. This implies that State authorities do not prevent the production and diffusion of information and knowledge about the role of a given minority in national storytelling, so that persons belonging to a minority group understand and embrace their minority identity, and those not belonging to a minority group understand the minority identity and its contribution to society as a whole and respect it. 69. Persons belonging to a minority have the right to express their identity in private and in public spaces. This includes: (a) The right to use their own language; (b) The right to exert freely their religion and to express their religious affiliation through their appearance or the wearing of other distinctive signs; (c) The right to promote their minority identity through traditional practices, art and other cultural manifestations, including by preserving the environmental and patrimonial dimension, whether natural or urban, through which their minority identity is present in the public space. 70. Persons belonging to a minority have the right to have their specific identity recognized, preserved and protected wherever they live in the State territory, be it in the territory traditionally occupied by the minority to which they belong, or in other parts of the country (cities). Minority identity may neither be used as a pretext to restrict the movement of persons within the State, nor as a justification for forced displacements within or across State borders. V. Recommendations 71. States should urgently implement the commitments made in article 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. They should aim at a symbiotic relationship between minority and dominant group identities and encourage conditions for the promotion of the minority group’s identity, without discrimination, as follows: (a) In their relationship with persons belonging to a minority, States should recognize the specific identity of persons belonging to a minority, including in official documents concerning the use of a given name, which should preferably be in the minority language or transliterated; (b) States should take no measures (or eliminate those that exist) that preclude the free and genuine expression of the identity of persons belonging to a minority, including signs of religious affiliation or the use of a minority language in public space. Any imposition or restrictions as regards dress codes should not lead to discrimination against persons belonging to a minority; (c) States should take no measures (or eliminate those that exist) that restrict the right of persons belonging to a minority to perpetuate their minority identity from one generation to the next, including through the transmission of traditional names, cultural practices or other signs of minority identity, within the limit of respect for individual human rights; (d) States should protect buildings or natural spaces that constitute part of the minority identity; (e) States should communicate and consult with the Special Rapporteur and/or OHCHR when taking measures related to paragraph 71. 72. The Special Rapporteur requests the Human Rights Council to regularly assess, during the universal periodic review, respect for the right of persons belonging to a minority to their specific identity. 16 GE.25-00509