Minority rights-based approaches to the protection and promotion of the rights of religious minorities 2013, para. 37
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Understood and implemented in human rights terms, minority rights aim to guarantee equality, not to provide privileges. Minority rights ensure equality for persons and communities who share characteristics they wish to maintain along with others, but which are held by those who are not dominant in terms of numbers or power. Even among those States that support minority rights, there may be a particular challenge entailed in relating minority rights standards to religious minorities. Even legal regimes that allow for religious pluralism but do not take account of minority status may fall short of the positive obligations that are owing to and required by religious minorities.