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Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
the natural resources, biodiversity, wetlands, forests and wild life for the present and future citizens.]
biodiversity
Equality of opportunity
19. (1) The State shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity to all citizens.
(2) The State shall adopt effective measures to remove social and economic inequality between man and
man and to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth among citizens, and of opportunities in order to attain
a uniform level of economic development throughout the Republic.
18[ (3)The State Shall endeavour to ensure equality of opportunity and participation of women in all spheres
of national life.]
20. (1) Work is a right, a duty and a matter of honour for every citizen who is capable of working, and
everyone shall be paid for his work on the basis of the principle “from each according to his abilities, to
each according to his work”.
(2) The State shall endeavour to create conditions in which,�� as a general principle, persons shall not be able
to enjoy unearned incomes, and in which human labour in every form, intellectual and physical, shall become
a fuller expression of creative endeavour and of the human personality.
21. (1) It is the duty of every citizen to observe the Constitution and the laws, to maintain discipline, to
perform public duties and to protect public property.
(2) Every person in the service of the Republic has a duty to strive at all times to serve the people.
22. The State shall ensure the separation of the judiciary from the executive organs of the State.
23. The State shall adopt measures to conserve the cultural traditions and heritage of the people, and so to
foster and improve the national language, literature and the arts that all sections of the people are afforded
the opportunity to contribute towards and to participate in the enrichment of the national culture.
Work as a right and duty
Duties of citizens and of
public servants
Separation of Judiciary from
the executive
National culture
The culture of tribes, minor
races, ethnic sects and
communities
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[ 23A. The State shall take steps to protect and develop the unique local culture and tradition of the
tribes, minor races, ethnic sects and communities.]
National monuments, etc
24. The State shall adopt measures for the protection against disfigurement, damage or removal of all
monuments, objects or places of special artistic or historic importance or interest.
Promotion of international
peace, security and solidarity
25. 20[ ***] The State shall base its international relations on the principles of respect for national
sovereignty and equality, non interference in the internal affairs of other countries, peaceful settlement of
international disputes, and respect for
international law and the principles enunciated in the United Nations Charter, and on the basis of those
principles shall –
(a) strive for the renunciation of the use of force in international relations and for general and complete
disarmament;
(b) uphold the right of every people freely to determine and build up its own social, economic and political
system by ways and means of its own free choice; and
(c) support oppressed peoples throughout the world waging a just struggle against imperialism, colonialism or
racialism.
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PART III
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS
Laws inconsistent with
26. (1) All existing law inconsistent with the provisions of this Part shall, to the extent of such inconsistency,
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