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• Right to strike
• Right to establish a business
• Right to competitive marketplace
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The right to strike is guaranteed and is exercised within the framework of laws that
regulate it and cannot, in any case, adversely affect either the freedom to work or
the free exercise of the right to property.
Article 11
Free enterprise is guaranteed within the framework of the laws in force.
• Right to health care
Article 12
The State will do everything it can to guarantee the right to health and medical
protection.
Article 13
• Freedom of association
• Right to form political parties
All citizens have the right to freely form associations, groups, political parties,
societies, organisations and institutions of public use, as long as they conform to the
laws in force.
• Prohibited political parties
Associations, groups, political parties, societies, organisations and institutions whose
activities are contrary to the public order as well as to the unity and cohesion of the
people of Central Africa or represent a threat to the State or to its national territorial
integrity are banned.
Article 14
• Reference to art
• Freedom of expression
• Right to information
Freedom of information, of expression and to disseminate one’s opinions through
speech, writing and art, under condition of respect of the rights of others, is
guaranteed at an individual and collective level.
• Freedom of assembly
The State guarantees the freedom to demonstrate peacefully.
• Right to privacy
• Telecommunications
The privacy of correspondence, as well as that of postal, electronic, telegraphic and
telephonic communications, is inviolable.
The above mentioned provisions cannot be restricted save through application of a
law.
• Freedom of press
Freedom of press is recognised and guaranteed. It is exercised within the conditions
prescribed by law.
• Media commission
The exercise of this freedom and equal access for all to the media are guaranteed by
an independent body, with regulatory and decision-making powers, and whose
status is established by law.
• Reference to art
• Right to culture
Freedom of intellectual, artistic and cultural creativity is recognised and guaranteed.
It is to be exercised within the conditions prescribed by law.
Article 15
• Protection from expropriation
• Right to own property
Every physical or moral person has the right to property. No one shall be deprived of
their property, save for a matter of public utility legally established and under the
condition of a just and prior indemnisation.
• Right to privacy
The home, like all private property, is inviolable. It can only be infringed upon
following a judicial decision and for a set period of time, and, if there is a danger
within the home, by other authorities designated by law and obliged to do so in ways
prescribed by law.
Central African Republic 2013
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