Cuba 1976 Constitution (reviewed 2002)

CHAPTER VI. EQUALITY

ARTICLE 41

All citizens have equal rights and are subject to equal duties.

ARTICLE 42

Discrimination based on race, color of the skin, sex, national origin, religious creeds, or any other type offending human dignity, is prohibited and punished by the law.

The State’s institutions educate all, from the earliest age, in the principle of the equality of human beings.

ARTICLE 43

The State establishes the right, won by the Revolution, of its citizens, without distinction based on race, color, sex, religious creeds, national origin, or any other type offending human dignity to:

• have access, in keeping with their merits and abilities, to all positions and State and administrative jobs and of production and services;
  
  reach any rank of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and of Security and internal order, in keeping with their merits and abilities;

  be given equal pay for equal work;

  have a right to education at all national educational institutions, ranging from elementary schools to the universities, which are the same for all;

  be given medical care in all medical institutions;

  live in any sector, zone or area and stay in any hotel;

  be served at all restaurants and other public service establishments;

  use, without any separations, all means of transportation by sea, land and air.

  enjoy the same resorts, beaches, parks, social centers and other centers of culture, sports, recreation and rest.

ARTICLE 44

Women and men enjoy equal economic, political, cultural, social, and familial rights.

The State guarantees that women will be offered the same opportunities and possibilities as men to achieve their full participation in the development of the country.

The State organizes institutions such as child centers, semi-boarding and boarding schools, residences for care of the aged, and services to aid the working family in the performance of its responsibilities.

Providing for their health and for a healthy offspring, the State grants working women paid maternity leave before and after childbirth, and temporary work options compatible with their maternal function.

The State strives to create all the conditions that will lead to the implementation of the principle of equality.