The InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance prevent or impair their enjoyment of human rights, the State should take specific action to correct those conditions. Such action may involve granting for a time, to the part of the population concerned, certain preferential treatment in specific matters as compared with the rest of the population. However, as long as such action is needed to correct discrimination, it is, in fact, a case of legitimate differentiation under the Covenant. However, to minimise the legal incompatibility of such affirmative measures within the individualist legal framework of the Constitution, the government should take necessary measures to specifically recognise the existance of various religious and ethnic groups in the country. Minority Rights:118 The Constitution should specifically mention the existing ethnic minorities in Bangladesh, and guarantee them the protection of their culture, religion and language. The government should also take measures to establish the right that is conferred on individuals belonging to minority groups and which is distinct from, and additional to, all the other rights which, as individuals in common with everyone else, they are already entitled to enjoy under the Covenant. The right of individuals belonging to a linguistic minority to use their language among themselves, in private or in public, should be distinguished from the general right to freedom of expression. Even if Article 27 is expressed in negative terms, it, 93