Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 69
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Despite those provisions, evidence from all regions indicates that religious minorities may face particular and persistent barriers to their participation in all aspects of civil, cultural, economic, social, political and public life. Long-standing patterns of discrimination and unequal treatment may gradually lead to religious minorities themselves internalizing their status as "others". This may lead to an intergenerational burden of exclusion, which is highly prevalent in many States and may lead to a lack of engagement of religious minorities with wider society and public life that is counter to the objective of positive integration.