provision on non-discrimination on religious grounds in Article 3, states in Article 13 that education should foster understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations and all racial, ethnic or religious groups. Similarly, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women specifies that every woman has the right to the recognition, enjoyment, exercise and protection of all human rights and freedoms embodied in regional and international human rights instruments, including, among others, “the right to profess her religion and beliefs within the law.” 118 79. In the context of the Universal System of Human Rights, Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to freedom of religion which includes “freedom, either alone or in community with others, and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.” Article 26(2) of the Declaration stipulates, in a manner similar to the American Declaration, that “education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups […].” 80. Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights also recognizes this right in similar terms to Article 12 of the American Convention, including Article 18(4) in which the States Parties to the Covenant “undertake to have respect for the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.” Article 27 of the same instrument establishes that 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 other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion and to use their own language.” 81. In similar terms to the provisions of the American Convention and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 13(3) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights establishes that the States Parties undertake to respect “the liberty of parents and, when applicable, of legal guardians, to choose for their children schools, other than those established by the public authorities, which conform to such minimum educational standards as may be laid down or approved by the State and to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with their own convictions.” 82. The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, of November 25, 1981, for its part, refers to the right to religion, and establishes in Article 5(2) that “every child shall enjoy the right to have access to education in the matter of religion or belief in accordance with the wishes of his parents or, as the case may be, legal guardians, and shall not be compelled to receive teaching on religion or belief against the wishes of his parents or legal guardians, the best interests of the child being the guiding principle.” This declaration also specifies that the “child shall be protected from any form of discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief. He shall be brought up in a spirit of understanding, tolerance, friendship among peoples, peace and universal brotherhood, respect for freedom of religion or belief of others, and in full consciousness that his energy and talents should be devoted to the service of his fellow men.” Finally, Article 6(e) recognizes that the right to freedom of religion includes the freedom “to teach a religion or belief in places suitable for such purposes.” 83. Likewise, Article 4 of Additional Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions establishes that: “Children shall be provided with the care and aid they require, and in particular: a) They shall receive an education, including religious and moral education, in keeping with the wishes of their parents, or in the absence of parents, of those responsible for their care.” In this regard, the International Committee of the Red Cross indicated that: “By using the future tense in shall provide and shall receive, the article establishes the legal obligation of States and non-State parties to ensure the continuity of education in the territory under their control and to take concrete measures to that end. Article 4(3)(a) stipulates that the education that children receive shall be in accordance with the 118 Inter-American Convention for the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women, Article 4.i. 24