Every person has the right to a healthy and ecologically balanced environment, being therefore entitled to denounce any acts that may infringe said right and claim redress for the damage caused. The State shall guarantee, defend and preserve that right. The Law shall establish the appropriate responsibilities and penalties. The family, as a natural element and foundation of society, is entitled to State protection. Mothers, children, the elderly and the destitute infirm are also entitled to such protection.
Marriage is the essential basis of the family and rests on equality of the rights of spouses.
Parents have the same obligations toward children born out of wedlock that they have toward those born within it. Everyone is entitled to know who his parents are, in accordance with the law. Any personal qualification based on the nature of filiation is prohibited. Labor is a right of the individual and an obligation to society. The State shall strive to see that everyone has lawful and useful employment, duly compensated, and prevent the establishment on that account of conditions which may in any way curtail human freedom or dignity or degrade his labor to the status of mere merchandise.