7 of science, arts and culture, and accordingly agree to foster greater international cooperation in these fields. 24. As regards the American Convention, the right to cultural identity, while not explicitly set forth, is protected in the treaty based on an evolutionary interpretation of the content of the rights embodied in its Articles 1(1), 5, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23 and 24, depending on the facts of the specific case. In other words, the right to cultural identity is not abridged every time one of said articles is breached. 25. Protection under Article 5 (Right to Humane Treatment) of the American Convention, in combination with Article 10 (Right to Health) of the San Salvador Protocol includes the right of the members of ethnic and cultural groups to use their own medicine and traditional health practices, as well as the right of access to public health institutions and medical care provided to the rest of the population, to ensure their physical, psychological and moral wellbeing. 26. Protection under Article 11 (Right to Privacy) of the Convention includes the right of the members of ethnic and cultural groups not to suffer arbitrary or abusive interference with their private, family and community life, which involves protection of their culture and respect for the integrity of the values, practices and institutions of these peoples. 27. Protection under Article 12 (Freedom of Conscience and Religion) of the Convention entails the right of members of ethnic and cultural groups to protect, express, disseminate, develop, teach and change their practices, ceremonies, traditions, and spiritual customs, both in the public and private spheres. It also involves their right to not be forcefully converted and for beliefs not to be imposed upon them against their will. 28. Protection under Article 13 of the Convention (Freedom of Thought and Expression) includes the right of the members of ethnic and cultural groups to express their own culture, both in public and privately, that is, to use their dress, artistic expressions, their entertainment; to preserve their own language; to seek and obtain information on their culture; to participate in generating and disseminating information and to request that information they deem erroneous regarding their culture and history be corrected; to have access to the media and to establish their own media; to contact and conduct activities with other cultures or with members of their own culture who are outside their territory; and to be informed regarding all matters that affect their spiritual, social, cultural life, as well as their movable and real property. 29. Protection under Articles 15 (Right of Assembly) and 16 (Freedom of Association) of the Convention includes the right of the members of ethnic and cultural groups to meet and to establish associations in accordance with their own culture, values, and customary law. These rights, in combination with Article 23 (Right to Participate in Government) of the Convention, allow these persons to organize in accordance with their own traditional forms of organization, to elect their representatives in accordance with their own forms of election, and to foster their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs. 30. Protection under Article 17 (Rights of the Family) of the Convention asserts the right of the members of these groups to maintain their own forms of family organization and of kinship.