LEGAL ENSHRINEMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FREEDOM OF BELIEF FOR CHILDREN IN ALGERIAN LEGISLATION

Abstract

This study aims to examine the extent to which Algerian legislation recognises children's freedom of belief, reconciling foreign and domestic texts and respecting innate aspects that do not conflict with public order and public morals, considering that children's freedom of belief is moral in nature before being a legal obligation, and how this right is exercised, especially for foreigners, with regard to the practice of religious rites for non-Muslims, on the basis that Algeria has ratified the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and African and Arab international conventions, which required their inclusion in its constitutions, from the 1963 Constitution to the 2020 Constitution.