Under Article 27 ICCPR, the rights of LINGUISTIC, RELIGIOUS or ETHNIC MINORITIES:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A.
1. ICCPR Article 27: 'In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practise their own religion, or to use their own language.'
2. The right is INDIVIDUAL (held by persons), but exercised IN COMMUNITY with others.
3. The Court in the Lubicon Lake Band v Canada (HRC, 1990) and other cases interpreted minority rights broadly to include INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S COLLECTIVE RIGHTS.
4. UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992) elaborates Article 27.
5. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: UDHR 1948 / ICCPR 1966 / ICESCR 1966 / CAT 1984 / CEDAW 1979 / CRC 1989 / PHRA 1993 / Constitution Part III — ICCPR Article 27_
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