The right to a healthy environment is recognized to all.
Article 20
Every person has the right to a free and equal access to Justice.
Article 21
No one can be prosecuted, arrested, detained [gardé à vue] or charged, except by virtue of a
law previously promulgated to the acts of which he is accused.
Article 22
No one can be arbitrarily detained.
Any accused is presumed innocent until his culpability has been established following a
procedure offering to him the guaranties indispensable to his defense.
CHAPTER II
OF THE DUTIES
Article 23
Every person living in the national territory is held to respect the Constitution, the laws and
the regulations of the Republic.
Article 24
The defense of the Nation and of the territorial integrity is a duty for every Ivorian. It is
assured exclusively by the forces of defense and of national security within the conditions
determined by the law.
Article 25
The public assets are inviolable. Every person is held to respect them and to protect them.
Article 26
Every citizen, invested with a public mandate or entrusted with a public employment or with a
mission of public service, has the duty to accomplish it with conscience, loyalty and probity.
Article 27
The duty of acquitting onself of ones fiscal obligations, in conformity with the law, is
imposed on all.
Article 28
The protection of the environment and the promotion of the quality of life are a duty for the
community and for each physical or moral person.