Country: Cyprus

CYPRUS
PREAMBLE

General provisions
Supremacy and Binding Force of the Constitution:

Equality:
Article 8
1. Every person shall be equal before the Constitution and the law without any discrimination. No privileges shall be granted to any individual, family, group or class.

Chapter II
RIGHTS, LIBERTIES AND DUTIES OF PERSONS

Privacy of Individual's Life:
Article 19
1. Every person shall have the right to demand that his private and family life is respected. There shall be no violation of the privacy of individual's private and family life. The exceptions necessitated by legal proceedings shall be reserved.

Chapter III
SOCIAL AND ACONOMIC RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES AND DUTIES

Protection of the Family:
Article 35
1. The family is the foundation of the community.
The State and other public corporate bodies shall adopt the necessary measures and establish the necessary organizations for the protection of the family, mother and child.
2. The rights and obligations of any male or female person reaching marriageable age to marry and to set up a matrimonial home shall be regulated by law.

Right to a Dwelling House:
Article 44
The State shall regulate 'by law the meausures necessary for meeting the housing requirements of families who do not own any houses or who do not have houses conforming to sanitary conditions suitable for human habitation.

Rehabilitation of the Poor:
Article 58
The State shall take social, economic, financial and other measures necessary for the purpose of rehabilitating the socially and economically weak persons and rendering them useful to their families and to the society.

PART VII. - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Safeguarding of the Rights:

Transitional Article 1
1. The State shall take the necessary social, economic, financial and other measures for the rehabilitation of the refugees under equal status and for rendering them useful to themselves, to their families and to the community; the State shall give the necessary assistance until such rehabilitation is realized.