Privacy Rights/History/Country sources/Burkina Faso
What is the oldest written source in this country that mentions this right?
Burkina Faso
Article 11 of the 1970 Constitution of Upper Volta proclaimed the inviolability of the home. Section One, Paragraph 4 of the 1977 Constitution of Upper Volta protected the privacy of correspondence.
The 1991 Burkina Faso Constitution protects privacy rights in Article 6. It reads, “The residence, the domicile, private and family life, [and] the secrecy of correspondence of every person, are inviolable. It can only be infringed according to the forms and in the cases specified by the law” (Constitute Project, “Burkina Faso 1991 rev. 2015” ).
References:
1970 Constitution of Upper Volta: "Title II: Fundamental Rights and Duties of Man and the Citizen," Constitution of Upper Volta (1970): 1006-1008 https://heinonline-org.proxygw.wrlc.org/HOL/Page?collection=cow&handle=hein.cow/zzbf0015&id=3&men_tab=srchresults
1977 Constitution of Upper Volta: "Section I: The Liberties," Constitution de la Republique Haute-Volta (1977): 2-3 https://heinonline-org.proxygw.wrlc.org/HOL/Page?collection=cow&handle=hein.cow/zzbf0031&id=3&men_tab=srchresults
https://constituteproject.org/constitution/Burkina_Faso_2015? lang=en