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Indigenous Peoples
Indonesia
- English…
(3) The cultural identities and rights of traditional communities shall be respected in accordance with the development of times and civilisations.
… (Art. 28I) - Indonesian…
(3) Identitas budaya dan hak masyarakat tradisional dihormati selaras denganperkembangan zaman dan peradaban.
… (Pasal 28I)
Indigenous Peoples
Ecuador
- EnglishAll female and male Ecuadorians are citizens and shall enjoy the rights set forth in the Constitution.
Ecuadorian nationality is a political and legal bond between individuals and the State, without detriment to their belonging to any of the other indigenous nations that coexist in plurinational Ecuador.
… (Art. 6) - SpanishTodas las ecuatorianas y los ecuatorianos son ciudadanos y gozarán de los derechos establecidos en la Constitución.
La nacionalidad ecuatoriana es el vínculo jurídico político de las personas con el Estado, sin perjuicio de su pertenencia a alguna de las nacionalidades indígenas que coexisten en el Ecuador plurinacional.
… (Art. 6)
Indigenous Peoples
Myanmar
- EnglishIn electing people’s representatives to the Hluttaws:
(a) every citizen who has attained 18 years of age on the day on which the election commences, who is not disqualified by law, who is eligible to vote, and person who has the right to vote under the law, shall have the right to vote;
(b) every citizen who is eligible to vote and person who has the right to vote under the law shall cast a vote only for each Hluttaw at a constituency in an election;
(c) Moreover, the relevant national races having right to vote in accord with the provisions contained in this Constitution have also the right to vote to elect Hluttaw representatives of national races for their Region or State Hluttaw;
… (Sec. 391) - Burmeseလွှတ်တော်များသို့ ပြည်သူ့ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များကို ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ရာတွင် -
(က) ရွေးကောက်ပွဲစတင်ကျင်းပသည့် နေ့ရက်၌ အသက် ၁၈ နှစ်ပြည့်၍ ဥပဒေအရ အရည်အချင်း ပျက်ယွင်းသူမဟုတ်သည့်အပြင် ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံသားနှင့် ဥပဒေအရ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးခွင့်ရှိသူတိုင်းသည် ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
(ခ) ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံသားနှင့် ဥပဒေအရ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးခွင့် ရှိသူတိုင်းသည် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတစ်ရပ်၌ မဲဆန္ဒနယ် တစ်နယ်တွင် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်စီအတွက် ဆန္ဒမဲတစ်မဲသာ ပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
(ဂ) ထို့ပြင် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသော သက်ဆိုင်ရာတိုင်းရင်းသားတိုင်းများသည် မိမိတို့၏ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်အတွက် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ရာတွင်လည်း ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသည်၊
...(ပုဒ်မ-၃၉၁)
Indigenous Peoples
Guyana
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of this article -
(a) no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect; and
(b) no person shall be treated in a discriminatory manner by any person acting by virtue of any written law or in the performance of the functions of any public office or any public authority.
(2) In this article the expression ‘discriminatory’ means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their or their parents’ or guardians’ respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinion, colour, creed, age, disability, marital status, sex, gender, language, birth, social class, pregnancy, religion, conscience, belief or culture whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which other persons of the same or another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not afforded to persons of another such description.
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(6) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this article to the extent that the law in question makes provision -
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(c) for the protection, well-being or advancement of the Amerindians of Guyana.
… (Art. 149)
Indigenous Peoples
Singapore
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“person belonging to the Malay community” means any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community;
… (Art. 39A)
Indigenous Peoples
Panama
- EnglishAboriginal languages shall be the object of special study, conservation and dissemination. The State shall promote programs of bilingual literacy in indigenous communities. (Art. 88)
- SpanishLas lenguas aborígenes serán objeto de especial estudio, conservación y divulgación y el Estado promoverá programas de alfabetización bilingüe en las comunidades indígenas. (Art. 88)
Indigenous Peoples
Kiribati
- EnglishIn this Chapter-
a. “Banaban” and “Banabans” means the former indigenous inhabitants of Banaba and such other persons one of whose ancestors was born in Kiribati before 1900 as may now or hereafter be accepted as members of the Banaban community in accordance with custom;
b. “Rabi Council” means the Council of Leaders establish by the Banaban Settlement Ordinance 1970 of Fiji and includes such successor body as represents the Banaban community on Banaba and Rabi Island in Fiji. (Sec. 125)
Indigenous Peoples
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- EnglishExploitation by the State of the natural resources in native habitats shall be carried out without harming the cultural, social and economic integrity of such habitats, and likewise subject to prior information and consultation with the native communities concerned. Profits from such exploitation by the native peoples are subject to the Constitution and the law. (Art. 120)
- SpanishEl aprovechamiento de los recursos naturales en los hábitats indígenas por parte del Estado se hará sin lesionar la integridad cultural, social y económica de los mismos e, igualmente, está sujeto a previa información y consulta a las comunidades indígenas respectivas. Los beneficios de este aprovechamiento por parte de los pueblos indígenas están sujetos a la Constitución y a la ley. (Art. 120)
Indigenous Peoples
Central African Republic
- EnglishThe Central African People, ...
Reaffirms its adherence to all International Conventions duly ratified, notably those concerning the prohibition of all forms of discrimination with regard to women, to the protection of the rights of the child and those relative to the autochthonous and tribal peoples;
... (Preamble) - FrenchLE PEUPLE CENTRAFRICAIN, …
Réaffirme son adhésion à toutes les Conventions Internationales dûment ratifiées notamment celles relatives à l’interdiction de toute forme de discrimination à l’égard des femmes, à la protection des droits de l’enfant et celles relatives aux peuples autochtones et tribaux;
… (Préambule)
Indigenous Peoples
Kenya
- EnglishThe objects of the devolution of government are—
...
(d) to recognise the right of communities to manage their own affairs and to further their development;
(e) to protect and promote the interests and rights of minorities and marginalised communities;
… (Art. 174) - SwahiliMalengo ya ugatuzi wa serikali ni-
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(d) kutambua haki ya jamii kusimamia mambo yao wenyewe na kukuza maendeleo yao;
(e) kulinda na kuimarisha masilahi na haki za watu wenye uwakilishi mdogo katika jamii na jamii za pembezoni;
… (Kifungu cha 174)