... the advent of the Second World War though. The creation of the United Nations in its aftermath marked a shift from collective rights to individual rights. For minorities were not expressly protected under the UN Charter or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which rely on provisions concerning anti-discrimination instead. It is argued though that all human rights exist for the protection of minorities especially with anti-discrimination provisions.3 The most basic of minority or human rights was accorded though through the Genocide Convention, the right to existence. This has been signed by 97 States, and is generally accepted as customary international law4. In the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), express rights for minorities were recognised in 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 the ...

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