Section One
Right to Life
Article 9
(1) Everyone has the right to life, to sustain life, and to improve his or her standard of living.
(2) Everyone has the right to peace, happiness, and well-being.
(3) Everyone has the right to an adequate and healthy environment.
Section Two
Right to Marry and Bear Children
Article 10
(1) Everyone has the right to marry legally, to found a family, and to bear children.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses,
in accordance with prevailing legislation.
Section Three
Right to Self Development
Article 11
Everyone has the right to grow and develop in a way that he feels fit.
Article 12
Everyone has the right to protection of his self-development, to obtain an education, to educate
himself, and to improve the quality of his life to become responsible, content, and prosperous
people, in accordance with his human rights.
Article 13
Everyone has the right to develop and benefit from scientific knowledge and technology, arts
and culture as befits human dignity, in the interests of his own welfare, and the welfare of the
nation and humanity.
Article 14
(1) Everyone has the right to communicate and obtain information they need to develop
themselves as individuals and to develop their social environment.
(2) Everyone has the right to seek, obtain, own, store, process, and impart information using
all available facilities.
Article 15
Everyone has the right to develop himself by individually and collectively protecting his rights, in
the interests of developing his society, nation, and state.
Article 16
Everyone has the right to undertake social and charitable works, to found organizations for this
purpose, including organizing private schooling and education, and to raise funds for these
purposes, in line with prevailing legislation.
Section Four
Right to Justice
Article 17
Everyone without discrimination, has the right to justice by submitting applications, grievances,
and charges, of a criminal, civil, and administrative nature, and to a hearing by an independent
and impartial tribunal, according to legal procedure that guarantees a hearing by a just and fair
judge allowing an objective and impartial verdict to be reached.
Article 18
(1) Everyone arrested, detained, or charged for a penal offence has the right to be presumed
innocent until proven guilty according to law in a trial at which he has had all the guarantees
necessary for his defense, according to prevailing law.
(2) No one shall be charged or held guilty of a penal offence for any act or omission which did
not constitute a penal offence under prevailing law, at the time when it was committed.
(3) Should any changes be made to law, the provisions most advantageous to the person held
guilty shall apply.
(4) Everyone brought before a tribunal has the right to legal aid from the start of the hearing
until a legally binding decision is made by the tribunal.
(5) No one shall be charged more than once for an action or omission concerning which a
tribunal has previously made a legally binding decision.
Article 19
(1) No offender or criminal shall be threatened with punishment in the form of seizure of part