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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishEvery person has the right to adequate, safe and comfortable, hygienic housing, with appropriate essential basic services, including a habitat such as to humanize family, neighborhood and community relations. The progressive meeting of this requirement is the shared responsibility of citizens and the State in all areas.
The State shall give priority to families, and shall guarantee them, especially those with meager resources, the possibility of access to social policies and credit for the construction, purchase or enlargement of dwellings. (Art. 82) - SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a una vivienda adecuada, segura, cómoda, higiénica, con servicios básicos esenciales que incluyan un hábitat que humanice las relaciones familiares, vecinales y comunitarias. La satisfacción progresiva de este derecho es obligación compartida entre los ciudadanos y ciudadanas y el Estado en todos sus ámbitos.
El Estado dará prioridad a las familias y garantizará los medios para que éstas y especialmente las de escasos recursos, puedan acceder a las políticas sociales y al crédito para la construcción, adquisición o ampliación de viviendas. (Art. 82)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee equal opportunity for every citizen and shall provide an appropriate standard of living. The State shall also guarantee the right of work, education, medical care, social security, and the right of intellectual and private property. The State shall further guarantee the fair distribution of national wealth among citizens, and among the different cities and districts thereof. (Art. 8)
- Arabicتضمن الدّولة تكافؤ الفرص، وتعمل على توفير المستوي المعيشي اللّائق وحقّ العمل والتعليم والرّعاية الصحية والضمان الاجتماعي لكل مواطن، كما تكفل حقّ الملكية الفردية والخاصّة، وتضمن الدولة عدالة توزيع الثروة الوطنية بين المواطنين وبين مختلف مدن ومناطق الدولة. (المادّة 8)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe state shall protect mothers and children, and shall sponsor the youth and the young. (Art. 30)
- Arabicتحمي الدولـة الأمومة والطفولــة وترعى النشء والشبـــاب. (المادّة 30)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe Public Administration is subject in its conduct to the principles of efficiency, hierarchy, objectivity, equality, transparency, economy, publicity, and coordination, with full submission to the juridical set of laws of the State.
… (Art. 138) - SpanishLa Administración Pública está sujeta en su actuación a los principios de eficacia, jerarquía, objetividad, igualdad, transparencia, economía, publicidad y coordinación, con sometimiento pleno al ordenamiento jurídico del Estado.
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Public Institutions and Services
- English1. For protection by the family, it shall specifically be the responsibility of the State:
a) To assist families in their mission as custodians of moral values recognized by the community;
b) To promote social and economic independence of family households;
c) To cooperate with parents in the raising of their children;
d) To define and implement, after consulting representative associations for families, a global and integrated family policy.
2. The state shall also have the duty to ensure the elimination of conditions that wreak discrimination on women and to guarantee the protection of their rights as well as children’s rights. (Art. 88) - Portuguese1. Para a protecção da família, incumbe ao Estado, designadamente:
a) Assistir a família na sua missão de guardiã dos valores morais reconhecidos pela comunidade;
b) Promover a independência social e económica dos agregados familiares;
c) Cooperar com os pais na educação dos filhos;
d) Definir e executar, ouvidas as associações representativas das famílias, uma política de família com carácter global e integrado.
2. O Estado tem ainda o dever de velar pela eliminação das condi- ções que importam a discriminação da mulher e de assegurar a protec- ção dos seus direitos, bem como dos direitos da criança. (Art. 88)
Public Institutions and Services
- English
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7. The State shall endeavour to develop and execute policies to minimize inequalities of income, concentration of wealth, and promote equitable distribution of public facilities among individuals and people living in different parts of the Kingdom.
8. The State shall endeavour to ensure that all the Dzongkhags are treated with equity on the basis of different needs so that the allocation of national resources results in comparable socioeconomic development.
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21. The State shall provide free access to basic public health services in both modern and traditional medicines.
22. The State shall endeavour to provide security in the event of sickness and disability or lack of adequate means of livelihood for reasons beyond one’s control.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༧) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དོ་ཟླ་མི་མཉམ་པའི་འོང་འབབ་དང་ རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཅིག་དབང་གང་ཉུང་བཟོ་ནིའི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་ཚུ་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏང་སྟེ་བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་དང་ ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་དང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་ སོ་སོར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གི་བར་ན་ དམངས་ཀྱི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༨) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཐོན་ཁུངས་བགོ་སྐལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དོ་ཟླ་མཉམ་པའི་མི་སྡེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་ལུ་ དགོས་ མཁོ་ སོ་སོར་གཞི་བཞག་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་སྐྱོང་གཞག་ངེས་པར་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོདན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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༢༡) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དེང་རབས་དང་ སྔར་སྲོལ་གསོ་དཔྱད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ མི་དམངས་གསོ་བའི་ གཞིས་གནས་ཞབས་ ཏོག་ཚུ་ སྟོང་པར་ཐོབ་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་དགོ།
༢༢) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ནད་གཞི་དང་ དབང་པོ་ལུ་ཐོ་ཕོག་པ་ ཡང་ན་ ཐབས་མེད་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུ་ ཐུག་སྟེ་འཚོ་རྟེན་ ལྡང་ངེས་མེད་པའི་སྐབས་ བདེ་སྲུང་བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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Public Institutions and Services
- English1. The State shall promote, co-ordinate and supervise economic activity, acting directly or indirectly to resolve the basic problems of the people and to reduce social and regional inequalities.
… (Art. 101) - Portuguese1. O Estado promove, coordena e fiscaliza a actividade económica agindo directa ou indirectamente para a solução dos problemas fundamentais do povo e para a redução das desigualdades sociais e regionais.
... (Art. 101)
Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The raising and upbringing of children until they come of legal age shall be a right and obligation of their parents and shall be assisted by the State.
(2) Mothers shall be the object of special protection on the part of the State and shall be guaranteed prenatal and postnatal leave, free obstetric care, alleviated working conditions and other social assistance.
… (Art. 47) - Bulgarian(1) Отглеждането и възпитанието на децата до пълнолетието им е право и задължение на техните родители и се подпомага от държавата.
(2) Жената майка се ползва от особената закрила на държавата, която й осигурява платен отпуск преди и след раждане, безплатна акушерска помощ, облекчаване на труда и други социални помощи.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe central State shall have exclusive jurisdiction over:
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6. Policies on … health, social security and housing.
… (Art. 261)6 - SpanishEl Estado central tendrá competencias exclusivas sobre:
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6. Las políticas de … salud, seguridad social, vivienda.
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Public Institutions and Services
- English
The State is committed to guaranteeing the specific needs of vulnerable persons.
It takes the measures necessary to prevent the vulnerability of children, of women, of mothers, of the elderly and of the persons with disabilities [situation de handicap].
It commits to guaranteeing the access of the vulnerable persons to the services of health, to education, to employment, to culture, and to sports and leisure. (Art. 32) - French
L’Etat s’engage à garantir les besoins spécifiques des personnes vulnérables.
Il prend les mesures nécessaires pour prévenir la vulnérabilité des enfants, des femmes, des mères, des personnes âgées et des personnes en situation de handicap.
Il s’engage à garantir l’accès des personnes vulnérables aux services de santé, à l’éducation, à l’emploi, à la culture, aux sports et aux loisirs. (Art. 32)