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Public Institutions and Services
Niger
- EnglishParents have the right and duty to raise, educate and protect their children. Descendants have the right and duty to assist and help the ascendants. Both [les uns comme les autres] are supported in this task by the State and the other public collectivities.
… (Art. 23) - FrenchLes parents ont le droit et le devoir d'élever, d'éduquer et de protéger leurs enfants. Les descendants ont le droit et le devoir d'assister et d'aider les ascendants. Les uns comme les autres sont soutenus dans cette tâche par l'État et les autres collectivités publiques.
… (Art. 23)
Public Institutions and Services
Ecuador
- EnglishThe [national health] system shall guarantee, through the institutions that comprise it, the promotion of family and community health, prevention and integral care, on the basis of primary healthcare; it shall articulate various levels of care; and it shall promote complementariness with ancestral and alternative medicines.
… (Art. 360) - SpanishEl sistema garantizará, a través de las instituciones que lo conforman, la promoción de la salud, prevención y atención integral, familiar y comunitaria, con base en la atención primaria de salud; articulará los diferentes niveles de atención; y promoverá la complementariedad con las medicinas ancestrales y alternativas.
… (Art. 360)
Public Institutions and Services
Tajikistan
- EnglishThe state shall protect the family as the basis of society. … (Art. 33)
- RussianСемья как основа общества, находится под защитой государства. … (Статья 33)
- TajikДавлат оиларо ҳамчун асоси ҷамъият ҳимоя мекунад. … (Моддаи 33)
Public Institutions and Services
Solomon Islands
- English(1) The power to grant any award under any pensions law for the time being in force in Solomon Islands (other than an award to which, under that law, the person to whom it is payable is entitled as of right) and, in accordance with any provisions in that behalf in any such law, to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any award payable under any such law shall vest in the Governor-General.
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(3) In this section, "pensions law" means any law relating to the grant to any person, or to the widow, children, dependants or personal representatives of that person, of an award in respect of the services of that person in a public office. (Sec. 132)
Public Institutions and Services
Sierra Leone
- English(1) Except with his own consent, no person shall be subjected to the search of his person or his property or the entry by others on his premises, or interference with his correspondence, telephone conversations and telegraphic and electronic communications.
(2) Nothing contained in or done under 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 that is reasonably required—
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e. for the purpose of affording such special care and assistance as are necessary for the health, safety, development and well-being of women, children and young persons, the aged and the handicapped; and except in so far as that provision or, as the case may be, the thing done under authority thereof is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a democratic society. (Sec. 22)
Public Institutions and Services
Guatemala
- English…
It is the obligation of the State to guide the national economy to achieve the utilizations of the natural resources and the human potential, to increase wealth and to try to achieve full employment and the equitable distribution of the national income.
… (Art. 118) - Spanish…
Es obligación del Estado orientar la economía nacional para lograr la utilización de los recursos naturales y el potencial humano, para incrementar la riqueza y tratar de lograr el pleno empleo y la equitativa distribución del ingreso nacional.
… (Art. 118)
Public Institutions and Services
Turkmenistan
- EnglishFamily, motherhood and fatherhood, and childhood shall be under the protection of the state. … (Art. 40)
- RussianСемья, материнство, отцовство и детство находятся под защитой государства. ... (Статья 40)
- TurkmenMaşgala, enelik, atalyk we çagalyk döwletiň goragynda durýarlar. … (40-njy madda)
Public Institutions and Services
Botswana
- English(1) The law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits that were granted to any person before the coming into operation of this Constitution shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to that person.
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(5) In this section "pensions benefits" means any pensions, compensation, gratuities or other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as public officers or as members of the armed forces or for the widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service. (Sec. 115)
Public Institutions and Services
Sudan
- English(1) Independent commissions shall be established, and figures with attested competence and integrity shall be nominated therefor. They are formed and their competencies defined by the laws that establish them.
(2) For nomination to membership on such commissions, candidates shall meet the following requirements:
(a) Academic qualification and practical expertise in the relevant field;
(b) May not have held sovereign or constitutional positions during the period of rule from June 1989;
(c) Neutrality, integrity, competence and professional independence;
(3) The Sovereignty Council appoints the chairman and members of the following commissions, in consultation with the Cabinet:
(a) Peace Commission;
(b) Borders Commission;
(c) Constitutional Drafting and the Constitutional Conference Commission;
(d) Elections Commission.
(5) [sic] (a) Legal Reform Commission;
(b) Anti-Corruption and Public Funds Recovery Commission;
(c) Human Rights Commission;
(d) Civil Service Reform Commission;
(e) Land Commission;
(f) Transitional Justice Commission;
(g) Women and Gender Equality Commission;
(h) Any other commissions that the Cabinet deems necessary to establish. (Art. 38) - Arabic1. تنشأ مفوضيات مستقلة ويرشح لها شخصيات من الخبراء مشهود لهم بالكفاءة والنزاهة، وتشكل وتحدد إختصاصاتها وفق القوانيين التي تنشئها.
2. يشترط في المرشح لعضوية المفوضيات:
ا. التأهيل العلمي والخبرة العملية في المجال المعني.
ب. عدم تولي مناصب سياديه او دستوريه خلال فترة حكم ثلاثين يونيو 1989م
ج. الحياد والنزاهة والكفاءة والاستقلالية.
3. يعين مجلس الوزراء رئيس واعضاء المفوضيات الأتيه بالتشاور مع مجلس الوزراء:
ا. مفوضية السلام
ب. مفوضية الحدود،
ج. مفوضية صناعة الدستور والمؤتمر الدستوري.
د. مفوضية الانتخابات.
4. يعين مجلس الوزراء رئيس واعضاء المفوضيات الاتيه:
ا. مفوضية الاصلاح القانونى.
ب. مفوضية مكافحة الفساد واسترداد الاموال العامة.
ج. مفوضية حقوق الانسان.
د. مفوضية اصلاح الخذمة المدنية.
ه. مفوضية الاراضي
و. مفوضية العدالة الانتقالية.
ز. مفوضية المرأة والمساواة النوعية
ح. اي مفوضية اخري يري مجلس الوزراء ضرورة لإنشاءها. (المادة 39)
Public Institutions and Services
Mexico
- English...
B. In the matter of broadcasting [radiodifusión] and telecommunications:
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V. The law will establish a public decentralized organ [organismo] with technical [and] operative autonomy, [autonomy] of decision and of administration [gestion] autonomy, having the objective of providing the service of not-for-profit broadcasting [radiodifusión sin fines de lucro], to the effect of assuring the access of the greater number of persons in each one of the entities [entidades] of the Federation, to contents that promote [promuevan] the national integration, the educational, cultural and civic training [formación], equality between women and men, the diffusion of impartial, objective, opportune and truthful [veraz] information of the national and international events [acontecer], and to give space to the works [obras] of independent production, as well as to the expression of the diversity and plurality of ideas and opinions that fortify the democratic life of the society.
... (Art. 6) - Spanish...
B. En materia de radiodifusión y telecomunicaciones:
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V. La ley establecerá un organismo público descentralizado con autonomía técnica, operativa, de decisión y de gestión, que tendrá por objeto proveer el servicio de radiodifusión sin fines de lucro, a efecto de asegurar el acceso al mayor número de personas en cada una de las entidades de la Federación, a contenidos que promuevan la integración nacional, la formación educativa, cultural y cívica, la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres, la difusión de información imparcial, objetiva, oportuna y veraz del acontecer nacional e internacional, y dar espacio a las obras de producción independiente, así como a la expresión de la diversidad y pluralidad de ideas y opiniones que fortalezcan la vida democrática de la sociedad.
… (Art. 6)