racial discrimination, and shall recognize participation in such organizations or activities as an offence punishable by law;
(c) Shall not permit public authorities or public institutions,
national or local, to promote or incite racial discrimination.
Article 5
In compliance with the fundamental obligations laid down in article
2 of this Convention, States Parties undertake to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the right of
everyone, without distinction as to race, colour, or national or ethnic origin, to equality before the law, notably in the enjoyment of the following
rights:
(a) The right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other
organs administering justice;
(b) The right to security of person and protection by the State
against violence or bodily harm, whether inflicted by government officials
or by any individual, group or institution;
(c) Political rights, in particular the rights to participate in elections
– to vote and to stand for election – on the basis of universal and equal
suffrage, to take part in the Government as well as in the conduct of
public affairs at any level and to have equal access to public service;
(d)
Other civil rights, in particular:
(d) iiiii (i)
The right to freedom of movement and residence within the border of the State;
(d)iii i (ii)
The right to leave any country, including one’s own,
and to return to one’s country;
(d) iii (iii)
The right to nationality;
(d) iii (iv)
The right to marriage and choice of spouse;
(d) iiii (v)
The right to own property alone as well as in association with others;
(d) iii (vi)
The right to inherit;
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