constituteproject.org PDF generated: 14 Oct 2013, 20:27 TITLE II Of the RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND DUTIES of the CITIZENS SUB TITLE I Of the RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS Article 10 Every human being carries within them inalienable and imprescriptible rights. The safeguarding of these rights is the objective of any human community. The State has the obligation to respect them, to guarantee them and to protect them. Moral persons may enjoy the rights guaranteed by this Constitution to the extent these rights are compatible with their nature. Article 11 All human beings are equal in dignity and in right. The man and the woman are equal before the law. No one may be favored or disadvantaged for reason of their familial, ethnic or regional origin, of their economic or social situation, of their political, religious, philosophical or other convictions. Article 12 Every human being has the right to development, to the physical, intellectual, moral and cultural fulfillment of their person. Article 13 The State has the obligation to guarantee the physical and mental integrity, the life and the security of every living person in the national territory. No one may be arbitrarily deprived either of their liberty or of their life. Article 14 The exercise of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by this Constitution may only be subject to the restrictions expressly provided by the law and necessary for the protection of the national security, of the public order, of the public health, of morality or of the fundamental rights and freedoms of others. Article 15 No one may be arbitrarily arrested or detained. Whoever is arrested without legal basis or detained longer than the time period of arrest may, on their request or that of any interested person, refer [the matter] to the judicial authority designated to this effect by the law. The judicial authority decides without delay on the legality or the regularity of their detention. Togo 1992 (rev. 2007) Page 5