<Li> Encourage groups, movements, and other means that eliminate barriers between races, and discourage racial division </Li> <P> Parties are obliged "when the circumstances so warrant" to use positive discrimination policies for specific racial groups to guarantee "the full and equal enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms". However, these measures must be finite, and "shall in no case entail as a consequence the maintenance of unequal or separate rights for different racial groups after the objectives for which they were taken have been achieved". </P> <P> Article 5 expands upon the general obligation of Article 2 and creates a specific obligation to guarantee the right of everyone to equality before the law regardless of "race, colour, or national or ethnic origin". It further lists specific rights this equality must apply to: equal treatment by courts and tribunals, security of the person and freedom from violence, the civil and political rights affirmed in the ICCPR, the economic, social and cultural rights affirmed in the ICESCR, and the right of access to any place or service used by the general public, "such as transport hotels, restaurants, cafes, theatres and parks ." This list is not exhaustive, and the obligation extends to all human rights . </P> <P> Article 6 obliges parties to provide "effective protection and remedies" through the courts or other institutions for any act of racial discrimination . This includes a right to a legal remedy and damages for injury suffered due to discrimination . </P>

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