Adopted at the Referendum of 23 July 2000
PREAMBLE
The People of Côte d’Ivoire,
Conscious of their liberty and national identity, of their responsibility before history and
humanity;
Conscious of their ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, and desirous to build one nation
unified in solidarity and prosperous;
Convinced that union with respect for diversity assures economic progress and social wellbeing;
Profoundly attached to constitutional legality and to democratic institutions;
Proclaims its adherence to the rights and freedoms as defined in the Universal Declaration of
the Rights of Man of 1948 and in the African Charter of the Rights of Man and of Peoples of
1981;
Expressing its attachment to democratic values recognized to all, the free people, notably:
— The respect and the protection of fundamental freedoms, individual as well as collective,
— The separation and the equilibrium of powers,
— Transparency in the conduct of public affairs,
Committed to the promotion of regional and sub-regional integration, in view of the
constitution of African Unity,
Gives freely and solemnly as the fundamental law this Constitution adopted by Referendum.
TITLE I
OF THE FREEDOMS, OF THE RIGHTS, AND OF THE DUTIES
CHAPTER I
OF THE FREEDOMS AND OF THE RIGHTS
Article 1
The State of Cote d’Ivoire recognizes the freedoms, the fundamental rights and duties
provided [énoncer] in this Constitution and commits itself to take the legislative or regulatory
measures to assure its effective application.
Article 2
The human person is sacred.