The right to privacy

The right to privacy

RESPECTING THE INDIVIDUAL

Most civilised societies recognise the importance of affording individuals the right to privacy.

Even Queen Elizabeth I of England recognised that we have no right to “make windows into men’s souls.” 

CIVIL-ISATION recognises the right to private preference and even the prejudice that might make respecting others difficult. 

Our concern is only with the basic human right of all to be treated respectfully and with dignity and that to withhold this universal human right for any reason is the beginning of tyranny.

“The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origins, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, beliefs, culture, language and birth.”

FROM THE NEW SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTION  (1996)