Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 10
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In all regions of the world, persons belonging to religious minorities face daily human rights violations. These range from violations of their individual rights and discrimination on the basis of their religious or belief identities to attacks on their community activities and violence against them, their places of worship or homes. They are targeted on the basis of discriminatory national laws and as State policy, and they suffer violations resulting from the disparate impact of apparently neutral laws, from the actions of non-State actors and from the impact of intercommunal tensions. There are millions of persons belonging to religious minorities globally who suffer human rights violations from birth until death.