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Economic rights are human and civil rights, characterizing their
participation in the production of material goods. These include: the
right to private property (individual and collective); the right to work
and the choice of profession and kind of employment; the possibility
of choosing a kind of occupation and work by vocation; the right to
vocational training and retraining; the right to fair wages; the right to
strike; the right to rest and so on.
Social rights are the opportunities for a person and a citizen to
ensure the proper social conditions of life. This is the right to health;
the right to housing; the right to maintenance in old age, in the case of
illness, full or partial disability, etc.; the right to an adequate standard
of living for themselves and their families.
Environmental rights are human rights and citizens' rights to a
safe environment. That is, the right to safety environment for life and
health; the right to compensation for damage caused by violation of
this right, etc.
Cultural rights are opportunities for human access to the
spiritual values of their people (nation) and of all mankind. This is the
right to education; the right to use the achievements of domestic and
world culture; the right to freedom of scientific, technical and artistic
works; the right to protection of intellectual property; the right to use
the results of intellectual, creative activity, etc.
Family rights are opportunities for a person and a citizen to
freely dispose of themselves in family relationships. It means: the
right to non-interference in personal and family lives; the right to
voluntary marriage, equal rights and obligations in marriage and
family; the right to state protection of family, maternity, paternity and
childhood; the right to equality of children irrespective of origin or
birth in marriage or out of wedlock.
The basic rights of citizens are inextricably linked with their
duties. The main duty of a citizen is the form and extent of his/her
obligatory behaviour, established by the Constitution of the state. In
order for a person to successfully exercise his/her rights and receive
certain material and spiritual benefits from society, he/she must
perform the duties assigned to him, give his/her work to society,
his/her efforts, take care of state and public affairs.
Constitutional rights, freedoms, duties, as well as constitutional
principles and guarantees form the basis of the legal status of citizens,
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