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• Compulsory education
• Free education
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Primary education is obligatory and free in the public establishments.
Article 44
The eradication of illiteracy is a national duty [for] the realization of which the
Government must elaborate a specific program.
• International law
Article 45
• Free education
Education is free.
It is nevertheless subject to the supervision of the public powers, under the
conditions established by the law.
All persons have access to establishments of national education, without
discrimination of place of origin, of race, of religion, of sex, of political or
philosophical opinions, of their physical, mental or sensorial state in accordance with
their capacities.
The national education establishments shall assure, in cooperation with the religious
authorities, to their minor pupils[,] and having parents demanding it[,] an education
conforming to their religious convictions.
The public authorities have the duty to promote and to assure, through teaching,
education and diffusion, the respect of the rights of man, of the fundamental
freedoms and of the duties of the citizens provided by this Constitution.
The public powers have the duty to assure the diffusion and the teaching of the
Constitution, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, the African Charter of
the Rights of Man and of Peoples, as well as all the duly ratified regional and
international conventions concerning the rights of man and to international
humanitarian law.
The State has the obligation to integrate the rights of the human person into all the
training programs of the armed forces, of the police and of the security services.
The law determines the conditions of application of this article.
• Right to culture
Article 46
• Reference to art
• Reference to science
The right to culture, to freedom of intellectual and artistic creation, and that of
scientific and technological research are guaranteed, under reserve of respect for
the law, for public order and for morality.
• Provisions for intellectual property
Copyrights and intellectual property [rights] are guaranteed and protected by the
law.
The State takes into account, in carrying out its tasks, of the cultural diversity of the
country.
It protects the national cultural patrimony and assures its promotion.
• Right to health care
Article 47
The right to health and to [a] secure food supply is guaranteed.
The law specifies the fundamental principles and the rules of organization for public
health and [a] secure food supply.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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