Le régime juridique des étrangers au Cameroun

2) Economic, social, and cultural rights

Just like the PIDCP, the PIDESC also proclaim economic, social and cultural rights for the expatriates. It thus sanctions the rights to work and equitable wages for a work of equal value. It recognizes also the rights to health and education. On this subject, the preamble to the constitution of January 18, 1996 lays out that «the State grants to the child the right to the instruction. Primary education teaching is obligatory ». In the same way, the expatriates have the right to practice their religion, to profit from scientific progress and its applications, to profit from the protection of the moral and material interests rising from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which they are the authors.

If the rights give them a true sedentary comfort in what they make prevail their physical and moral integrity, the obligations make it possible to prevent that the exercise of these rights does not degenerate into abuse ; so freedoms of non-national in general are juridically framed^67(*).

* ⁶⁷ On this subject, we can quote, rightly, ROUSSEAU (Jean-Jacques), Of the social contract, 1764, which says  :  «  my freedom starts where that of the other stops  ».