Everyone has the right to privacy and no one may interfere with a person’s right to privacy in his or her home and in his or her correspondence or communications. 21. Freedom of Association Every person has the right to freedom of association. 22. Freedom of assembly, demonstration, picketing and petition Everyone has the right, peacefully and unarmed, to assemble, to demonstrate, to picket and to present petitions. 23. Freedom of conscience (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience, which includes— (a) freedom of thought, opinion, religion or belief; (b) freedom to change their thought, opinion, religion or belief; (c) freedom to practise and propagate and give expression to their thought, opinion, religion or belief, whether in public or in private and whether alone or together with others; and (d) academic freedom in institutions of higher learning. (1) No one may be compelled to take an oath that is contrary to their religion or belief or to take an oath in a manner that is contrary to their religion or belief. (2) The State must respect the right of parents and guardians of children to ensure their children’s religious and moral education in conformity with their own convictions. (4) Any religious community may ensure that religious instruction is given in educational courses or institutions provided by the community, even if the community or institution receives a subsidy or other financial assistance from the State. 24. Freedom of speech and expression and freedom of the media (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of speech and expression, which includes— (a) freedom to hold opinions; (b) freedom to seek, receive and communicate ideas and information regardless of frontiers; (c) (d) freedom of artistic creativity; freedom of the press and other media of communication. 26

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