Article 11. Right to Privacy
1. Everyone has the right to have his honor respected and his dignity recognized.
2. No one may be the object of arbitrary or abusive interference with his private life, his
family, his home, or his correspondence, or of unlawful attacks on his honor or reputation.
3. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 12. Freedom of Conscience and Religion
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of conscience and of religion. This right includes
freedom to maintain or to change one's religion or beliefs, and freedom to profess or
disseminate one's religion or beliefs, either individually or together with others, in public or in
private.
2. No one shall be subject to restrictions that might impair his freedom to maintain or to
change his religion or beliefs.
3. Freedom to manifest one's religion and beliefs may be subject only to the limitations
prescribed by law that are necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals, or the
rights or freedoms of others.
4. Parents or guardians, as the case may be, have the right to provide for the religious and
moral education of their children or wards that is in accord with their own convictions.
Article 13. Freedom of Thought and Expression
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought and expression. This right includes freedom
to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either
orally, in writing, in print, in the form of art, or through any other medium of one's choice.
2. The exercise of the right provided for in the foregoing paragraph shall not be subject to
prior censorship but shall be subject to subsequent imposition of liability, which shall be
expressly established by law to the extent necessary to ensure:
a. respect for the rights or reputations of others; or
b. the protection of national security, public order, or public health or morals.
3. The right of expression may not be restricted by indirect methods or means, such as the
abuse of government or private controls over newsprint, radio broadcasting frequencies, or
equipment used in the dissemination of information, or by any other means tending to
impede the communication and circulation of ideas and opinions.
4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 2 above, public entertainments may be
subject by law to prior censorship for the sole purpose of regulating access to them for the
moral protection of childhood and adolescence.
5. Any propaganda for war and any advocacy of national, racial, or religious hatred that
constitute incitements to lawless violence or to any other similar action against any person or
group of persons on any grounds including those of race, color, religion, language, or national
origin shall be considered as offenses punishable by law.
Article 14. Right of Reply
1. Anyone injured by inaccurate or offensive statements or ideas disseminated to the public in