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contributing to climate protection and to maintaining a healthy environment for future
generations;
We pledge to promote regional and sub-regional integration, with a view to achieving African
unity;
Approve and adopt freely and solemnly before the Nation and humanity this Constitution as the
basic Law of the State, whose Preamble is an integral part.
TITLE I. RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND DUTIES
Article 1: The State of Côte d'Ivoire recognizes the rights, freedoms and duties set forth in this
Constitution. It is committed to taking all necessary measures for ensuring the effective
implementation thereof.
CHAPTER ONE. RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Article 2: The human person is sacred.
The rights of the human person is inviolable.
Everyone has the right to respect for human dignity and to recognition as a person before the
law.
Article 3: The right to life is inviolable.
No one has the right to take the life of another person.
The death penalty is abolished.
Article 4: All Ivoirians are born and remain free and equal in rights.
No one may be privileged or discriminated against by reason of their race, their ethnicity, their
clan, their tribe, their skin color, their sex, their region, their social origin, their religion or belief,
their opinion, their fortune, their difference in culture or language, their social status or their
physical or mental state.
Article 5: Slavery, human trafficking, forced labor, physical or moral torture, inhumane, cruel,
degrading and humiliating treatment, physical violence, female genital mutilation as well as all
other forms of degradation of a human being are prohibited.
Any medical or scientific experimentation on a person without their informed consent as well as
organ trafficking for commercial or ulterior motives are also prohibited. However, everyone has
the right to donate their organs, under the conditions prescribed by law.
Article 6: The right of everyone to free and equal access to justice is protected and guaranteed.
Everyone has the right to a fair trial and to judgment rendered within a reasonable period as
determined by law.
The State promotes the development of local justice.
Article 7: No one may be prosecuted, arrested, detained or charged, except by virtue of a law
promulgated prior to the facts alleged against them.
No one may be arbitrarily arrested, prosecuted or detained.
Any person arrested or detained has the right to humane treatment that protects their dignity.
They must be informed immediately of the reasons for their arrest or detention and of their
rights, in the language understandable to them.
Every defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty following a fair trial providing all the
guarantees necessary for their defense.
Article 8: The home is inviolable. Exceptions or restrictions may only be prescribed by law.
Article 9: Everyone is entitled to education and professional training.
Everyone is also entitled to access to healthcare services.