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Côte d'Ivoire: Constitution (French) - 2000
The constitution provides for the freedoms, basic rights and responsibilities (Art 1), equality before the law (Art 2; Art 30), protection for the children, elderly and the disabled (Art 6), and the youth (Art 8), freedom of expression, conscience, religion and ideology (Art 9), free speech (Art 10), freedom of assembly and demonstration (Art 11), political formations (Art 13) and political parties (14) based on democratic principles, national sovereignty and universal suffrage, right to private property (Art 15), to private enterprise (Art 16), unionize and strike (Art 18), access to justice (Art 20), national sovereignty (Art 31), right to exercise national sovereignty via referendum or elected representatives by universal, free and secret ballot suffrage (Art 33), laws on public liberties, civic rights and fundamental rights of citizens (Art 71), Economic and Socil Council (Art 113, 114), and a "mediation body" of the Republic (Art 115-118).
13 September 2011

Spain: Constitution (Spanish) - 1978
The Constitution states that sovereignty belongs to the people (Art 1), political parties express political pluralism and conform to popular will (Art 6), the rigt to join labor and trade unions (Art 7), freedom and equality of all citizens in order to facilitate their participation in political, economic, social and cultural life (Art 9), basic rights and freedoms in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, among other conventions to which Spain is a signatory (Art 10), equality before the law (Art 14), freedom of ideology and religion (Art 16), expression (Art 20), demonstration (Art 21), association (Art 22), right of citizens to participate directly or via their representatives chosen as result of universal suffrage (Art 23), access to justice (Art 24), rigt to unionize and strike (Art 28), petition (Art 29), private property (Art 33), join or form professional associations (Art 52), ombudsman (Art 54), basic freedoms and rights (Art 53), their suspension (Art 54), written individual or collective peitions by citizens to the Congress and Senate (Art 77), public administration pursuing the public will (Art 103), citizen participation in processes of public decision- and policy-making either directly or via associations, and citizens' access to government archives except for sensitive areas such as security and defense (Art 105), and citizens' right to participate in juries.
12 September 2011