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Every Citizen within the jurisdictional influence of this Constitution, without exception or other distinction of any kind, shall, through the administration of the Central Bureau, be provided at no personal cost, the materials, services and/or allowances that constitute their inalienable Rights, which are:
Article 1. The means to maintain a healthy physical and mental condition and hygienic living environment:
1) A quota of potable water adequate for hydration and sanitation
2) A quota of nutritional food adequate for health and sustenance
3) Reasonably secure and private shelter with appropriate utilities, amenities and furnishings
4) Access to any required health service
5) Adequate toiletries and medicines applicable to maintaining or regaining a healthy and hygienic physical condition
6) A social order dedicated to effectively eradicating macro-environmental pollution and rehabilitating polluted environments
Article 2. The means to fulfil designated Responsibilities:
1) Education at any required level, in any discipline; open-ended scholarship
2) Choice of active profession/s
3) Minimum working hours sufficient to perform designated tasks, and to allow reasonably equal sharing of a consistent workload (where practical) with other designated contributors
4) Maximum working hours sufficient to avoid compromising personal and domestic Rights and Responsibilities
5) Entitlements, proportionate to contribution made
6) Be consulted and officially acknowledged whenever one’s work and qualifications are relevant to the determination of a societal matter
7) All required vocational equipment (for use on approved tasks)
8) All required educational equipment
9) All training relevant to the particular vocational position
10) Accommodation in close proximity to workplace/s
11) Protest regarding Standard Occupational Procedure, citing non-compliance with requisite Principles
12) Anonymous, registered complaint regarding serial incompetence or negligence in colleagues
13) All basic equipment and information necessary for successful child-rearing (where applicable)
Article 3. General liberties:
1) Sufficient opportunities for sleep and rest
2) Periodic holidays
3) Regular opportunities for recreation
4) Experience of culture
5) Celebration
6) Domestic solitude
7) Consensual co-habitation
8) Consensual marriage
9) Adoption
10) Divorce
11) Be respectfully informed and officially consulted regarding any planned societal activity by which one is directly affected
12) Accessible societal services and infrastructure conducive to maximising the independence of those with physical or intellectual disability
13) Multiple choice as a parent, as to the kind of education that shall be given to one's child [26-3]
14) Freedom of thought, conscience and religion, including freedom to change one's religion or belief; and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest one's religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance [18]
15) Not be prevented from receiving accurate, descriptive information regarding any religion, science, belief system, philosophy, creation myth or origin theory
16) Freedom of opinion and expression, including freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any available media and regardless of frontiers [19]
17) Freedom of peaceful assembly and association [20-1]
18) Not be compelled to belong to an association [20-2]
19) Protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any technological, literary or artistic production of which one is the author [27-2]
20) A social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realised [28]
21) An economic and administrative system that effectively serves to perpetuate society in acknowledgement of, and respect for, the fragility of natural systems and the finiteness of their resultant resources
22) An economic and administrative system that alleviates need, inhibits the expression of greed, and rewards beneficial societal contribution
23) Free movement and exchange between Conscientist states
Article 4. Possession of property:
1) Permanent, exclusive custody of inheritable, and otherwise eligible, property
2) Long-term custody of eligible property
3) Short-term custody of eligible property
4) Innovative and/or aesthetic modification of eligible property
5) Not be compelled to accept an unwanted Entitlement as substitute for a preferred one that is unavailable
6) Custody over, or access to, all required/desired property owned prior to the introduction of Conscientism
Article 5. Factually-informed control over one's own physical destiny:
1) Not be held in slavery or servitude [4]
2) Not be subjected to torture, or cruel or degrading treatment or punishment [5]
3) Not be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile [9]
4) Not be killed by another
5) Not be compelled to kill
6) Consensual sexual activity with other adult humans only
7) Contraception and common safeguards against infectious agents
8) Sexual reproduction
9) Early-stage foetal abortion
10) Self-termination, and the means to do so in a reliable, non-distressing and pain-free manner; aided if required and desired
11) Consumption of mind- or body-altering substances
12) Engagement in any recreational activity in which self-risk is inherent
13) All relevant, accurate information regarding methods and/or substances, their relative safety, and the likely and potential effects (both positive and negative) of any activity necessarily involving self-risk
14) Availability (through Entitlement) of methods and/or substances that minimise the potential for objective self-harm (both physical and psychological) while maximising the desired effect of the risky activity
Article 6. Legal standing:
1) Recognition everywhere as a person before the law [6]
2) Equal protection of the law, without any discrimination [7]
3) An effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted to one by the constitution or by law [8]
4) A fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of one's rights and obligations and of any criminal charge [10]
5) If charged with a penal offence, to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which one has had all the guarantees necessary for one's defence [11-1]
6) Not be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor have a heavier penalty imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed [11-2]
7) Not be subjected to arbitrary interference with one's privacy, family, home or correspondence [12]
8) Not be subjected to unsubstantiated attacks upon one's honour and reputation [12]
9) Freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state [13-1]
10) To leave any country, including one's own, and to return to one's country [13-2]
11) To seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution [14-1]
12) An official Record of one's existence
13) A legally registered name and nationality [15-1]
14) Not be arbitrarily deprived of one's nationality nor denied the right to change one's nationality [15-2]
15) Full probationary Citizenship awarded to any adult within geographical jurisdiction, able to demonstrate sufficient understanding and acceptance of Conscientist society. Applicable education provided where necessary, to ensure an adequately informed decision
16) The protection of the law against any interference with, or deprivation of, these Rights
Article 7. Stipulations of Rights:
1) The Rights of one shall never amount to, or serve to justify, depriving another of their Rights
2) These Rights apply as much to incarcerated criminals as to the general population
3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of Conscientism [30]
4) Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein, nor the Conscientist system that enables their realisation [30]
Numbers in square brackets indicate and refer to corresponding Articles contained in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
In addition to the Rights of the Citizen, every child (under 18 years of age), without exception or distinction of any kind, shall, through the administration of the Central Bureau, be provided with, at no personal cost, the materials, services and/or allowances that constitute their inalienable Rights as a child, which are:
1. Where possible, to know and be cared for by one's parents [7]
2. Not be separated from one's parents unless being maltreated [9]
3. Contact with both parents, unless this might harm the child [9]
4. Where families live in different countries, movement between those countries to enable parents and children to stay in contact, or reunite as a family [10]
5. Rejection of specific, prospective adoptive parents or foster carers
6. Not be taken out of one's own country illegally [11]
7. Be properly cared for and protected from violence, abuse and neglect by one's parents,
or any other allocated guardian [19]
8. Where one's family is necessarily absent, be properly cared for by people who respect one's religion,
culture and language [20]
9. Have one's situation reviewed regularly, where a local authority provides care rather than one's parents [25]
10. Have one's opinions taken into account when adults are making decisions that affect one [12]
11. Physical wellbeing and dignity when receiving discipline at school and at home [28]
12. Freedom to receive and share information that is not harmful to the individual child or to children generally [13]
13. Freedom to meet with other children and young people, and to join
Conscientist-compliant groups and organisations [15]
14. Full probationary Citizenship awarded to children who come as refugees into the geographical jurisdiction of a Conscientist society [22]
Numbers in square brackets indicate and refer to corresponding Articles contained in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989
All species of life - especially those of higher evolutionary and cognitive development, mostly (but not only) identified as vertebrates – shall respectfully receive from human society as a whole, through the exercise of our Responsibilities and performance of primary Conscientist tasks, their inalienable Rights, which are:
1. Except where necessary to prevent greater suffering, not be subjected to treatment or acts known or expected to entail physical or psychological suffering. These include certain training techniques, transportation, and experimentation [3-1, 6-1]
2. Not be killed unnecessarily by human act or decision. Where death is deemed necessary, one as instantaneous and painless as reasonably possible, that causes no apprehension [3-2, 7]
3. Where possible, freedom to live and reproduce in a healthy, thriving native habitat and ecosystem, minimally compromised by pollution, invasive species and detrimental human interference [4-1, 8-2]
4. Where directly dependent on humans, proper sustenance and care, and not be abandoned or killed unjustifiably [5-1, 5-2]
5. Not be subjected to inbreeding, or breeding that inadvertently maintains or exacerbates
physiologically unhealthy traits [5-3]
6. Not be compelled to perform unnatural behaviour [5-3]
7. Not be unnecessarily or unnaturally confined to captivity
8. Not have the survival of one's entire species threatened as a result of human behaviour [8-1]
Numbers in square brackets indicate and refer to corresponding Articles contained in the UNESCO Universal Declaration of Animal Rights (1978, 1990)
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