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Other Instruments

United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol

5.2.6. Minorities

Constitutional Provisions

Preamble: Justice – social, economic, political to all its citizens

Articles 14,15 and 16 : Guarantee right to equality and prohibits discrimination

Article 25-28 : Right to Freedom of Religion

Article 29: Right to preserve language script and culture and that they will not be denied admission to an educational institutions based on their race, language, religion or caste

Article 30: The right to establish and administer educational institutions and prohibition on any discrimination in matters of granting aids to such institutions by the State