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Political Rights and Association
- English
(1) The Federation has powers of legislation and execution in the following matters:
7. … the right of association and assembly;
… (Art. 10) - German
(1) Bundessache ist die Gesetzgebung und die Vollziehung in folgenden Angelegenheiten:
7. … Vereins- und Versammlungsrecht;
… (Art. 10)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishPolitical rights and the capacity to perform public functions with power and jurisdiction are reserved to natural born Panamanian cultures. (Art. 132)
- SpanishLos derechos políticos y la capacidad para ejercer cargos públicos con mando y jurisdicción, se reservan a los ciudadanos panameños. (Art. 132)
Political Rights and Association
- English…
(2) Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life.
… (Art. 28) - Bengali…
(২) রাষ্ট্র ও গণজীবনের সর্বস্তরে নারী পুরুষের সমান অধিকার লাভ করিবেন।
… (অনুচ্ছেদ ২৮)
Political Rights and Association
- English… Affirming the role of women and their active participation in carrying out the revolution; …
Enshrining the principle of political pluralism and the establishment of a state of law that recognizes diversity, takes citizenship as a basis for rights and duties, and that elevates the values of justice, equality and human rights; ... (Preamble) - Arabic... واقراراً بدور المرأة ومشاركتها الفاعلة في إنجاز الثوره...
وإرساء لمبدأ التعددية السياسية وتأسيس دولة القانون التي تعترف بالتنوع وترتكز علي المواطنة أساسا للحقوق والواجبات، وتعلى قيم العدالة والمساواة وحقوق الإنسان... (ديباجه)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe elections of deputies and other persons elected to state office by the people shall be universal: citizens of the Republic of Belarus who have reached the age of 18 shall be eligible to vote.
… (Art. 64) - BelarusianВыбары дэпутатаў і іншых асоб, якія выбіраюцца на дзяржаўныя пасады народам, з’яўляюцца ўсеагульнымі: права выбіраць маюць грамадзяне Рэспублікі Беларусь, якія дасягнулі 18 гадоў.
… (Артыкул 64) - RussianВыборы депутатов и других лиц, избираемых на государственные должности народом, являются всеобщими: право избирать имеют граждане Республики Беларусь, достигшие 18 лет.
… (Статья 64)
Political Rights and Association
- English
1. Under this Constitution, the general will of the people shall be the basis of government and it shall be expressed through periodic elections.
2. A person shall have the right to vote by direct adult suffrage through secret ballot at an election if the person is:
a. A Bhutanese citizen as evidenced by a Citizenship Card;
b. Not less than eighteen years of age;
c. Registered in the civil registry of that constituency for not less than one year, prior to the date of the election; and
d. Not otherwise disqualified from voting under any law in force in Bhutan.
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
༡) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ གཞུང་གི་གཞི་གནས་འདི་ མི་སེར་སྤྱིར་གྱི་བསམ་དོན་ཨིནམ་དང་ བསམ་དོན་ འདི་ དུས་མཚམས་ཅན་གྱི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ཐོག་ལས་གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་དགོ།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་ནང་གསང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐོག་ལས་ ན་ལོན་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐད་ ཀར་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ མི་ཁུངས་ལག་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་སྟོན་ནི་ཡོད་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་དང།
ཁ༽ སྐྱེས་ལོ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ལས་མ་ཆུང་བ།
ག༽ བཙག་འཐུའི་ཚེས་གྲངས་ཀྱི་སྔ་གོང་ལས་ལོ་ངོ་གཅིག་ལས་མ་ཉུང་བར་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེའི་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་ མ་ཡིག་ནང་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པ། དང་།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཁྱདཚད་ ལས་ མ་འགལ་བ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe following rights of persons are recognized and guaranteed:
…
13. The right to associate, assemble and express oneself freely and voluntarily.
… (Art. 66) - SpanishSe reconoce y garantizará a las personas:
…
13. El derecho a asociarse, reunirse y manifestarse en forma libre y voluntaria.
… (Art. 66)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Elections of members of the Nitijela shall be conducted by secret ballot under a system of universal suffrage for all citizens of the Republic of the Marshall Islands who have attained the age of 18 years, and who are otherwise qualified to vote pursuant to this Section.
… (Art. IV, Sec. 3)
Political Rights and Association
- English... The citizens of Turkmenistan, who attained the age of 18, shall have the right to vote; each voter shall have one vote.
Citizens recognized by the court as legally incapable, as well as serving sentence in prisons, shall not participate in elections. Limiting the electoral rights of citizens in other cases shall not be acceptable, and shall be punishable by law. (Art. 119) - Russian... Право избирать имеют граждане Туркменистана, достигшие восемнадцатилетнего возраста, каждый избиратель имеет один голос.
В выборах не участвуют граждане, признанные судом недееспособными, а также отбывающие наказание в местах лишения свободы. Ограничение избирательных прав граждан в других случаях является недопустимым и влечёт ответственность, установленную законом. (Статья 119) - Turkmen... Türkmenistanyň on sekiz ýaşy dolan raýatlarynyň saýlamaga hukugy bardyr, her bir saýlawçynyň bir sesi bardyr.
Saýlawlara kazyýet tarapyndan kämillik ukyby ýok diýlip ykrar edilen, şeýle hem azatlykdan mahrum ediliş ýerlerinde jeza çekýän raýatlar gatnaşmaýarlar. Beýleki halatlarda raýatlaryň saýlaw hukuklarynyň çäklendirilmegi ýol berilmesizdir we ol kanunda bellenilen jogapkärçilige eltýär.(119-njy madda)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishBelgians have the right to enter into association or partnership; this right cannot be subject to any preventive measure. (Art. 27)
- DutchDe Belgen hebben het recht van vereniging; dit recht kan niet aan enige preventieve maatregel worden onderworpen. (Art. 27)
- FrenchLes Belges ont le droit de s’associer; ce droit ne peut être soumis à aucune mesure préventive. (Art. 27)
- GermanDie Belgier haben das Recht, Vereinigungen zu bilden; dieses Recht darf keiner präventiven Maßnahme unterworfen werden. (Art. 27)