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Article 2 of the Constitution
Type of Measure
Laws > Violence against women > Constitutional provision
Form of Violence
Violence against women and girls
Year
1991
Brief Description
Article 2 of the Constitution of Burkina Faso adopted in 1991, and amended in 2010, includes the following provisions: The protection of life, security, and physical integrity are guaranteed. Slavery, slavery-like practices, inhuman and cruel, degrading and humiliating treatments, physical or moral torture, services and mistreatments inflicted on children and all forms of the degradation of Man[,] are forbidden and punished by the law.
Source of Information
Constitution of Burkina Faso 1991 (amended 2012), Charter of the Transisition 13 November 2014, UN Women Constitutional Database.
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