panels, and decision-making bodies. In Kosovo, for example, the constitutionally mandated Consultative Council for Communities, located in the Office of the President of Kosovo, provides a way for representatives from minority communities to express their views on legislation and programmes that affect them. 4. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain their own associations. Minorities have the right to set up associations, clubs or cultural centres to maintain and enjoy their cultural or religious life, including schools or religious institutions. Such associations must still adhere to human rights principles and must not discriminate against women or other vulnerable groups. 5. Persons belonging to minorities have the right to establish and maintain, without any discrimination, free and peaceful contacts with other members of their group and with persons belonging to other minorities, as well as contacts across frontiers with citizens of other States to whom they are related by national or ethnic, religious or linguistic ties. Minority cultures can only continue to thrive and develop by remaining in contact with others from their group. Collaboration between minority groups can strengthen advocacy for minority rights at the national or international level. Article 3 1. Persons belonging to minorities may exercise their rights, including those set forth in the present Declaration, individually as well as in community with other members of their group, without any discrimination. Minority rights are held by each individual; they are not group rights but may be exercised as a group. Minorities should not be persecuted for exercising their group identity. 2. No disadvantage shall result for any person belonging to a minority as the consequence of the exercise or non-exercise of the rights set forth in the present Declaration. States should not target those persons working to defend and promote the rights of minorities. And minorities should be able to choose freely whether or not they wish to assert their rights. Individuals within a minority group have the right to not adhere to cultural roles that discriminate against them. Article 4 1. States shall take measures where required to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all their human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law.