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Article 16
The state guarantees the impartiality of educational institutions from all partisan
instrumentalization.
Article 17
Only the state may establish armed forces and internal security forces, in conformity
with the law and in the service of the public interest.
Article 18
The national army is a republican army. It is an armed military force based on
discipline that is composed and structurally organized in accordance with the law
and charged with responsibility to defend the nation, its independence and its
territorial integrity. It is required to remain completely impartial. The national army
supports the civil authorities in accordance with the provisions set out in law.
Article 19
The national security forces are republican; they are responsible for maintaining
security and public order, ensuring the protection of individuals, institutions, and
property, and ensuring the enforcement of the law while ensuring that freedoms are
respected, with complete impartiality.
• International law
• Treaty ratification
• Legal status of treaties
Article 20
International agreements approved and ratified by the Assembly of the
Representatives of the People have a status superior to that of laws and inferior to
that of the Constitution.
Title Two: Rights and Freedoms
• General guarantee of equality
Article 21
• Equality regardless of gender
All citizens, male and female, have equal rights and duties, and are equal before the
law without any discrimination.
• Right to reasonable standard of living
The state guarantees freedoms and individual and collective rights to all citizens, and
provides all citizens the conditions for a dignified life.
• Right to life
Article 22
The right to life is sacred and cannot be prejudiced except in exceptional cases
regulated by law.
• Human dignity
• Prohibition of torture
Article 23
The state protects human dignity and physical integrity, and prohibits mental and
physical torture. Crimes of torture are not subject to any statute of limitations.
Tunisia 2014
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