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CongoDR
Constitution
Article 11
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in
rights. However, the enjoyment of political rights is
recognized to Congolese only, save for the exceptions
established by the law.
Article 12
All Congolese are equal before the law and have the right to
equal protection of the laws.
Article 13
No Congolese person may, in matters of education or of
access to public functions or any other matter, be subject to
a discriminatory measure, that results from the law or from
an act of the executive, for reason of his religion, of his
family origin, of his social condition, of his residence, of his
opinion or political convictions, or his belonging to a certain
race, to an ethnicity, to a tribe, [or] to a cultural or
linguistic minority.
Article 21
All judgments are written and substantiated. They are
pronounced in a public audiences.
Article 22
All persons have the right to freedom of thought, of conscience
and of religion.
All persons have the right to manifest their religion or their
convictions, alone or as a group, both in public and in private,
by worship, teaching, practices, the accomplishment of rites
and the state of religious life, under reserve of respect for the
law, for public order, for morality and for the rights of others.
The law establishes the modalities for the exercise of these
freedoms.
Article 23
All persons have the right to freedom of expression.
This right implies the freedom to express their opinions or
their convictions, notably by speech, print and pictures,
under reserve of respect for the law, for public order and for
morality.
Article 24 (Part of it)
All persons have the right to information.
Article 26 (Part of it)
The freedom of demonstration is guaranteed.
No one may be forced to take part in a demonstration.
Article 27
All Congolese have the right to address, individually or
collectively, a petition to the public authority which
responds to it within three months.
No one may be made the subject of discrimination, in any
form that may be, for having taken such an initiative.
Article 28
No one is required to execute a manifestly illegal order.
Every individual, every State agent is relieved from the duty
to obey, when an order received constitutes a manifest
infringement of the respect of the rights of man and of the
public freedoms and of morality.
The proof of the manifest illegality of the order is incumbent
on the person who refuses to execute it.
Article 37 (Part of it)
The State guarantees the freedom of association.
This collaboration may take the form of a subsidy.
Article 39
The right to strike is recognized and guaranteed.
Article 40 (Part of it)
Each individual has the right to marry with the person of
their choice, of the opposite sex, and to establish a family.
Article 43 (Part of it)
All persons have the right to a scholastic education. It is
provided by national education.
National education consists of public establishments and
approved private establishments.
The law establishes the conditions of creation and of
functioning of these establishments.
Primary education is obligatory and free in the public
establishments.
Article 47
The right to health and to secure food supply is guaranteed.
Article 48
The right to decent housing, the right of access to drinking
water and to electric energy are guaranteed. The law
establishes the modalities of the exercise of these rights.
Article 49
The elderly person and the handicapped person have the
right to specific measures of protection concerning their
physical, intellectual and moral needs.
The State has the duty to promote the presence of
handicapped persons within national, provincial and local
institutions.
Article 62
There is no excuse of ignorance of the law.
All persons are required to respect the Constitution and to
comply with the laws of the Republic.
Article 64
All Congolese have the sacred right and duty to defend the
country and its territorial integrity in the face of an external
threat or aggression.
Obligatory military service can be instituted under the
conditions determined by the law.
All national, provincial, local and customary authorities have
the duty to safeguard the unity of the Republic and the
integrity of its territory, under penalty of high treason.
Article 64
All Congolese have the duty to oppose any individual or
group of individuals who seize power by force or who
exercise it in violation of the provisions of this Constitution.
Any attempt to overthrow the constitutional regime
imprescriptibly constitutes an infraction against the Nation
and the State. It is punished in accordance with the law.
Article 66
All Congolese have the duty to respect and to treat their
fellow citizens without any discrimination and to maintain
relations with them that permit the safeguarding, the
promotion, and the strengthening of the national unity, and
of reciprocal respect and tolerance.
They have, in addition, the duty to preserve and to reinforce
the national solidarity, singularly when it is threatened.
Article 67
All Congolese have the duty to protect the public property,
assets and interests and to respect the property of others.
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Constitution of Congo DR

  • 2. Article 11 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in rights. However, the enjoyment of political rights is recognized to Congolese only, save for the exceptions established by the law.
  • 3. Article 12 All Congolese are equal before the law and have the right to equal protection of the laws.
  • 4. Article 13 No Congolese person may, in matters of education or of access to public functions or any other matter, be subject to a discriminatory measure, that results from the law or from an act of the executive, for reason of his religion, of his family origin, of his social condition, of his residence, of his opinion or political convictions, or his belonging to a certain race, to an ethnicity, to a tribe, [or] to a cultural or linguistic minority.
  • 5. Article 21 All judgments are written and substantiated. They are pronounced in a public audiences.
  • 6. Article 22 All persons have the right to freedom of thought, of conscience and of religion. All persons have the right to manifest their religion or their convictions, alone or as a group, both in public and in private, by worship, teaching, practices, the accomplishment of rites and the state of religious life, under reserve of respect for the law, for public order, for morality and for the rights of others. The law establishes the modalities for the exercise of these freedoms.
  • 7. Article 23 All persons have the right to freedom of expression. This right implies the freedom to express their opinions or their convictions, notably by speech, print and pictures, under reserve of respect for the law, for public order and for morality.
  • 8. Article 24 (Part of it) All persons have the right to information.
  • 9. Article 26 (Part of it) The freedom of demonstration is guaranteed. No one may be forced to take part in a demonstration.
  • 10. Article 27 All Congolese have the right to address, individually or collectively, a petition to the public authority which responds to it within three months. No one may be made the subject of discrimination, in any form that may be, for having taken such an initiative.
  • 11. Article 28 No one is required to execute a manifestly illegal order. Every individual, every State agent is relieved from the duty to obey, when an order received constitutes a manifest infringement of the respect of the rights of man and of the public freedoms and of morality. The proof of the manifest illegality of the order is incumbent on the person who refuses to execute it.
  • 12. Article 37 (Part of it) The State guarantees the freedom of association. This collaboration may take the form of a subsidy.
  • 13. Article 39 The right to strike is recognized and guaranteed.
  • 14. Article 40 (Part of it) Each individual has the right to marry with the person of their choice, of the opposite sex, and to establish a family.
  • 15. Article 43 (Part of it) All persons have the right to a scholastic education. It is provided by national education. National education consists of public establishments and approved private establishments. The law establishes the conditions of creation and of functioning of these establishments. Primary education is obligatory and free in the public establishments.
  • 16. Article 47 The right to health and to secure food supply is guaranteed.
  • 17. Article 48 The right to decent housing, the right of access to drinking water and to electric energy are guaranteed. The law establishes the modalities of the exercise of these rights.
  • 18. Article 49 The elderly person and the handicapped person have the right to specific measures of protection concerning their physical, intellectual and moral needs. The State has the duty to promote the presence of handicapped persons within national, provincial and local institutions.
  • 19. Article 62 There is no excuse of ignorance of the law. All persons are required to respect the Constitution and to comply with the laws of the Republic.
  • 20. Article 64 All Congolese have the sacred right and duty to defend the country and its territorial integrity in the face of an external threat or aggression. Obligatory military service can be instituted under the conditions determined by the law. All national, provincial, local and customary authorities have the duty to safeguard the unity of the Republic and the integrity of its territory, under penalty of high treason.
  • 21. Article 64 All Congolese have the duty to oppose any individual or group of individuals who seize power by force or who exercise it in violation of the provisions of this Constitution. Any attempt to overthrow the constitutional regime imprescriptibly constitutes an infraction against the Nation and the State. It is punished in accordance with the law.
  • 22. Article 66 All Congolese have the duty to respect and to treat their fellow citizens without any discrimination and to maintain relations with them that permit the safeguarding, the promotion, and the strengthening of the national unity, and of reciprocal respect and tolerance. They have, in addition, the duty to preserve and to reinforce the national solidarity, singularly when it is threatened.
  • 23. Article 67 All Congolese have the duty to protect the public property, assets and interests and to respect the property of others.