CIVIL & POLITICAL COVENANT (Cont'd)
Article 16
Everyone shall have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before
the law.
Article 17
1. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or untoviul intaference with his privacy, family, home or contespondence, nor to unlawful attacks. on his honour and reputatios.
2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such inter- ference or attacks.
Article 15
1. Everyone shall inve the tight to freedom of thought, conscience and religion. This right shall include tresdom to have or to adopt a religion or behel of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.
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2. No one shall be subject to coercion which wou'd impair his freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice,
3. Freedom to manifest one's religion or beliefs may be subject only to stuch limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary to protect public safety, rider, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others.
4 The States Parties to the present. Covenant undertake to have respect fow the liberty of parents and, when applicable, legal guardians to ensure the religious and moral education of their children in conformity with
their own convictions.
ICONOMIC & SOCIAL COVENANT (Cont'd)
BELIZE CONSTITUTION ART. 6 (Cont'd)
(b) may by law be empowered or required to do in the interests of
defence, public safety or public order.
(10) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of
(a) subsection (3)(a) of this section to the extent that the law in question imposes upon any person charged with a criminal offence the burden of proving particular facts;
(b) subsection (3)(e) of this section to the extent that the law in question imposes reasonable conditions that must be satisfied if witnesses called to testify on behalf of an accused person are to be paid their expenses out of public funds; or
(c) subsection (5) of this section to the extent that the law in ques- tion-authorises a court to try a member of a disciplined force for a criminal offence notwithstanding any trial and conviction or acquittal of that member under the disciplinary law of that force, so, however, that any court so trying such a member and convict- ing him shall in sentencing him to any punishment take into account any punishment awarded him under that disciplinary law. (11) In the case of any person who is held in lawful detention the provisions of subsection (2) and paragraphs (d) and (e) of subsection (3) of this section shall not apply in relation to his trial for a criminal offence under the law regulating the discipline of persons held in such detention. (12) In this section “criminal offence" means a criminal offence under a law.
right of privacy.
Protection of 14.-(1) A person shall not be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor io unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation. The private and family life, the home and the personal correspondence of every person shall be respected.
Protection of freedom of conscience.
(2) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this section to the extent that the law in question makes provision of the kind specified in subsection (2) of section 9 of this Constitution.
11.-(1) Except with his own consent, a person shall not be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of conscience, including freedom of thought and of religion, freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others, and both in public and in private, to manifest and propagate his religion or belief in worship, teaching, practice and observance.
(2) Except with his own consent (or, if he is a person under the age of eighteen years, the consent of his parent or guardian) a person attending any place of education, detained in any prison or corrective institution or serving in a naval, military or air force shall not be required to receive religious instruction or to take part in or attend any religious ceremony or observance if that instruction, ceremony or observance relates to a relig. ion which is not his own.
(3) Every recognised religious community shall be entitled, at its own expense, to establish and maintain places of education and to manage any place of education which it maintains; and no such community shall be prevented from providing religious instruction for persons of that com- munity in the course of any education provided by that community whether or not it is in receipt of a government subsidy or other form of financial assistance designed to meet in whole or in part the cost of such course of education.
(4) A person shall not be compelled to take any oath which is contrary to his religion or belief or to take any gath in a manner which is contrary to his religion or belief.