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1. OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
AND OF THE CITIZEN
• Human dignity
Article 21
Human dignity is respected and protected. All threat [atteinte] to human dignity is
punished by the penal code.
Article 22
• General guarantee of equality
All citizens are equal before the law, which assures them an equal protection.
• Equality regardless of gender
• Equality regardless of skin color
• Equality regardless of creed or belief
• Equality regardless of social status
• Equality regardless of origin
• Equality regardless of race
• Equality regardless of language
• Equality regardless of religion
• Equality for persons with disabilities
No one may be subject to discrimination notably because of their origin, of their race,
of their ethnicity, of their sex, of their color, of their language, of their social situation
of their religious, philosophical or political convictions or because of a physical or
mental handicap or because they are carriers of the HIV/AIDS or of any other
incurable disease.
• Ultra-vires administrative actions
Article 23
No one shall be treated in an arbitrarily manner by the State or its organs.
The State has the obligation to indemnify any person [made a] victim of arbitrary
treatment by its act or of [the] act of its organs.
• Right to life
Article 24
Every woman, every man has the right to life.
• Prohibition of cruel treatment
• Freedom of movement
• Prohibition of torture
Article 25
Every woman, every man has the right to the freedom of their person, notably to the
physical and psychical integrity and to the freedom of movement. No one shall be
submitted to torture, or to cruel, inhuman or degrading penalties or treatments.
• Prohibition of slavery
Article 26
No one shall be held in slavery or in servitude. Slavery and trafficking in slaves are
prohibited in all their forms.
Article 27
The State sees[,] within the measure of possible[,] that all citizens dispose of the
means to lead [mener] an existence in accordance with human dignity.
Article 28
Every woman, every man has the right to respect for their private life and for their
family life, for their domicile and their personal communications.
Burundi 2005
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