SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS

• Legal framework: 

Saint Kitts and Nevis’s Constitution of 1983

https://www.oas.org/juridico/PDFs/mesicic4_kna_const_stkitts.pdf 

CHAPTER II – PROTECTION OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

3. Fundamental rights and freedoms.

Whereas every person in Saint Christopher and Nevis is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms, that is to say, the right, whatever his or her race, place of origin, birth, political opinions, color, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following, namely,

(a) life, liberty, security of the person, equality before the law and the protection of the law;

(b) freedom of conscience, of expression and of assembly and association; and

(c) protection for his or her personal privacy, the privacy of his or her home and other property and

from deprivation of property without compensation, the provisions of this Chapter shall have effect for the purpose of affording protection to those rights and freedoms subject to such limitations of that protection as are contained in those provisions, being limitations designed to ensure that the enjoyment of those rights and freedoms by any person does not impair the rights and freedoms of others or the public interest.

13. Protection of freedom of assembly and association.

(1) Except with his or her own consent, a person shall not be hindered in the enjoyment of his or her

freedom of assembly and association, that is to say, his or her right to assembly freely and associate with other persons and in particular to form or belong to trade unions or other associations for the protection of his or her interests or to form or belong to political parties or other political associations.

(2) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this section to the extent that the law in question makes provision

(a) that is reasonably required in the interests of defence, public safety, public order, public morality or public health;

(b) that is reasonably required for the purpose of protecting the rights or freedoms of other persons; or

(c) that imposes restrictions upon public officers that are reasonably required for the proper performance of their functions, and except so far as that provision or, as the case may be, the thing done under the authority thereof is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a democratic society

• Legislative framework: 

https://lawcommission.gov.kn/