A/50/514 English Page 20 school according to linguistic criteria was, however, not found to be in breach of article 14. This was confirmed in a number of follow-up cases. The Commission also considered that the right claimed by the applicants to have the imprint of their own personality and of the culture they acknowledge as their own take first place among the factors conditioning the education of their children, in order that their children’s thinking should not become alien to their own, was outside the scope of articles 9 and 10; (g) The question of interference with the expression of a particular culture has hardly ever arisen in the Strasbourg case law. In the case of alleged discrimination against the Slovene minority in Austria by virtue of the failure to license a private radio station and an alleged insufficiency of programmes on the public broadcasting system, the Commission did not find elements of discrimination; the Court did not express an opinion; (h) Several cases decided by the Commission concerned special protection of particular minorities under national law and resultant restrictions on the freedom of expression of persons not belonging to those minorities. The Commission considered such restrictions as being justified under article 10, paragraph 2, of the Convention. In the case of defamatory remarks made against Gypsies in Germany, the Commission found that there had been no interference with individual rights. VIII. NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS 66. Caritas Internationalis mentioned that the situation of minority groups was of great concern to the organization, and some of Caritas’s member organizations were very much involved in assisting such groups in defending the dignity of their members. The World Muslim Congress stated that, through their branches throughout the world, greater awareness about the rights of minorities was being promoted and the abolition of discriminatory laws called for. IX. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 67. In view of the small number of replies received by the Centre for Human Rights and the lack of substantive information contained therein, it is difficult to arrive at conclusions of a general nature which accurately represent the measures taken to give effect to the Declaration by the international community as a whole. In particular, it seems that the replies focused mainly on the constitutional and legislative provisions protecting and promoting the rights of persons belonging to minorities, with many Governments listing relevant legislation at length. It would have been more useful for the purposes of this report if Governments had submitted substantive information on the actual measures taken to protect minorities, including any affirmative action undertaken to give effect to the Declaration. It should thus be underscored that what is needed is information about the practical implementation of the Declaration. 68. It would therefore seem indispensable for the preparation of future reports on the subject, and in order to provide a more accurate overview of the measures /...