Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 32
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Article 2 outlines that minorities have the right to establish and maintain their own associations (art. 2, para. 4); and 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 (art. 2, para. 5). Article 2 underscores the right to participate effectively in cultural, religious, social, economic and public life and to participate effectively in decisions on the national and, where appropriate, regional level concerning the minority to which they belong or the regions in which they live.