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Preamble
We, the Sovereign People of Burkina Faso:
• CONSCIOUS of our responsibilities and of our duties before history and
before humanity;
• STRENGTHENED by the democracies [we have] acquired;
• COMMITTED to preserve those acquired and animated by a will to
construct a State of law guaranteeing the exercise of collective and
individual rights, liberty, dignity, security, well-being, development, equality
and justice as the fundamental values of a pluralist society of progress and
free from all prejudice;
• REAFFIRMING our commitment to the struggle against any form of
domination as well as to the democratic character of power;
• DETERMINED to promote integrity, probity, transparence, impartiality and
the obligation to render account as the republican and ethical values proper
to moralize the life of the Nation;
• RECOGNIZING the customary and traditional leadership as [a] moral
authority[,] depository of the customs and of the traditions in our society;
• RECOGNIZING that the promotion of gender is a factor for realization of
the equality of law between men and women of Burkina Faso;
• SEARCHING [for] the economic and political integration with the other
peoples of Africa with a view to the construction of a federative unity of
Africa;
• SUBSCRIBING to the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1948
and to the international instruments concerning economic, political, social
and cultural problems;
• REAFFIRMING solemnly our commitment vis-a-vis the African Charter of
the Rights of Man and of Peoples of 1981;
• DESIROUS to promote peace, international cooperation, the peaceful
resolution of differences between States, with justice, equality, liberty and
the sovereignty of peoples;
• CONSCIOUS of the absolute necessity to protect the environment;
APPROVE and ADOPT this Constitution of which this preamble is made an integral
part.
TITLE I: OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
AND DUTIES
CHAPTER I: OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND DUTIES
Article 1
• General guarantee of equality
All the Burkinabe are born free and equal in rights.
All have an equal vocation to enjoy all the rights and all the freedoms guaranteed by
this Constitution.
• Equality regardless of gender
• Equality regardless of skin color
• Equality regardless of financial status
• Equality regardless of political party
• Equality regardless of race
• Equality regardless of language
• Equality regardless of religion
Discrimination of all sorts, notably those founded on race, ethnicity, region, color,
sex, language, religion, caste, political opinions, wealth and birth, are prohibited.
Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012)
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