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• Free education
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The state guarantees the right to free public education at all levels and ensures
provisions of the necessary resources to achieve a high quality of education,
teaching, and training. It shall also work to consolidate the Arab-Muslim identity and
national belonging in the young generations, and to strengthen, promote and
generalize the use of the Arabic language and to openness to foreign languages,
human civilizations and diffusion of the culture of human rights.
Article 40
• Right to work
Work is a right for every citizen, male and female. The state shall take the necessary
measures to guarantee work on the basis of competence and fairness.
• Right to equal pay for work
• Right to safe work environment
All citizens, male and female, shall have the right to decent working conditions and to
a fair wage.
• Right to own property
Article 41
The right to property shall be guaranteed, and it shall not be interfered with except
in accordance with circumstances and with protections established by the law.
• Provisions for intellectual property
Intellectual property is guaranteed.
• Right to culture
Article 42
The right to culture is guaranteed.
The freedom of creative expression is guaranteed. The state encourages cultural
creativity and supports the strengthening of national culture, its diversity and
renewal, in promoting the values of tolerance, rejection of violence, openness to
different cultures and dialogue between civilizations.
The state shall protect cultural heritage and guarantees it for future generations.
Article 43
The state shall promote sports and shall work to provide the facilities necessary for
the exercise of physical and leisure activities.
Article 44
The right to water shall be guaranteed.
• Protection of environment
The conservation and rational use of water is a duty of the state and of society.
• Protection of environment
Article 45
The state guarantees the right to a healthy and balanced environment and the right
to participate in the protection of the climate.
The state shall provide the necessary means to eradicate pollution of the
environment.
Article 46
The state commits to protect women’s accrued rights and work to strengthen and
develop those rights.
Tunisia 2014
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