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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishPublic services are meant to satisfy the necessities of collective interest. They shall be declared by law. Consequently:
1. The State guarantees access to public services of quality, directly or by delegation, through concession, authorization, association in participation, transfer of actionable property or other contractual modality, in accordance with this Constitution and the law.
2. Public services given by the State or by individuals, the legal or contractual modalities, must respond to the principles of universality, accessibility, efficiency, transparency, responsibility, continuity, quality, reasonability, and equity of price.
… (Art. 147) - SpanishLos servicios públicos están destinados a satisfacer las necesidades de interés colectivo. Serán declarados por ley. En consecuencia:
1) El Estado garantiza el acceso a servicios públicos de calidad, directamente o por delegación, mediante concesión, autorización, asociación en participación, transferencia de la propiedad accionaria u otra modalidad contractual, de conformidad con esta Constitución y la ley;
2) Los servicios públicos prestados por el Estado o por los particulares, en las modalidades legales o contractuales, deben responder a los principios de universalidad, accesibilidad, eficiencia, transparencia, responsabilidad, continuidad, calidad, razonabilidad y equidad tarifaria;
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman established by voluntary decision, and the family as the basis of the survival of the nation.
… (Foundation, Art. L) - Hungarian(1) Magyarország védi a házasság intézményét mint férfi és nő között, önkéntes elhatározás alapján létrejött életközösséget, valamint a családot mint a nemzet fennmaradásának alapját.
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The State shall take all necessary action to ensure that the national economy is managed in such a manner as to maximise the rate of economic development and to secure the maximum welfare, freedom and happiness of every person in Eswatini and to provide adequate means of livelihood and suitable employment and public assistance to the needy.(2) The State shall, in particular, take all necessary steps to establish a sound and healthy economy whose underlying principles shall include -…(c) ensuring that individuals and the private sector bear their fair share of social and national responsibilities including responsibilities to contribute to the overall development of the country;(d) undertaking even and balanced development of all regions and in particular improving the conditions of life in the rural areas, and generally, redressing any imbalance in development between the rural and urban areas;… (Sec. 59)
Public Institutions and Services
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Khmer citizens of both sexes shall have the right to enjoy social security and other social benefits as determined by law.
… (Art. 36) - Khmer…
ប្រជាពលរដ្ឋខ្មែរទាំងពីរភេទ មានសិទ្ធិទទួលការធានា រ៉ាប់រងសង្គម និងអត្ថប្រយោជន៍ខាងសង្គមកិច្ចដែលមាន ចែងក្នុងច្បាប់។
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Public Institutions and Services
- English1. The family sector shall play a fundamental role in meeting the basic needs of the people.
2. The State shall support and provide incentives for family sector production, and shall encourage peasants as well as individual workers to organize themselves into more advanced forms of production. (Art. 105) - Portuguese1. Na satisfação das necessidades essenciais da população, ao sector familiar cabe um papel fundamental.
2. O Estado incentiva e apoia a produção do sector familiar e encoraja os camponeses, bem como os trabalhadores individuais, a organizarem-se em formas mais avançadas de produção. (Art. 105)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe development structure shall have the following objectives:
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2. To build a fair, democratic, productive, mutually supportive and sustainable economic system based on the egalitarian distribution of the benefits of development and the means of production, and on the creation of decent, stable employment.
… (Art. 276) - SpanishEl régimen de desarrollo tendrá los siguientes objetivos:
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2. Construir un sistema económico, justo, democrático, productivo, solidario y sostenible basado en la distribución igualitaria de los beneficios del desarrollo, de los medios de producción y en la generación de trabajo digno y estable.
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of the national life.
(2) The State shall, in particular, strive to minimise the inequalities in income, and endeavour to eliminate inequalities in status, facilities and opportunities, not only amongst individuals but also amongst groups of people residing in different areas or engaged in different vocations. (Art. 38) - Hindi(1) राज्य ऐसी सामाजिक व्यवस्था की, जिसमें सामाजिक, आर्थिक और राजनैतिक न्याय राष्ट्रीय जीवन की सभी संस्थाओं को अनुप्राणित करे, भरसक प्रभावी रूप से स्थापना और संरक्षण करके लोक कल्याण की अभिवृद्धि का प्रयास करेगा।
(2) राज्य, विशिष्टतया, आय की असमानताओं को कम करने का प्रयास करेगा और न केवल व्यक्तियों के बीच बल्कि विभिन्न क्षेत्रों में रहने वाले और विभिन्न व्यवसायों में लगे हुए लोगों के समूहों के बीच भी प्रतिष्ठा, सुविधाओं और अवसरों की असमानता समाप्त करने का प्रयास करेगा। (अनुच्छेद 38)
Public Institutions and Services
- English
(1) The State shall be bound to take actions in order that every person has a decent standard of living that would ensure him/her and his/her family members health protection and welfare including food, clothing, shelter, medical care, as well as necessary social services.
(2) All citizens have the right to be insured in case of: unemployment, disease, disability, widowhood, old age or other situations where, due to causes beyond one’s control, one loses the source or means of obtaining the necessities of life. (Art. 47) - Moldovian
(1) Statul este obligat să ia măsuri pentru ca orice om să aibă un nivel de trai decent, care să-i asigure sănătatea şi bunăstarea, lui şi familiei lui, cuprinzînd hrana, îmbrăcămintea, locuinţa, îngrijirea medicală, precum şi serviciile sociale necesare.
(2) Cetăţenii au dreptul la asigurare în caz de: şomaj, boală, invaliditate, văduvie, bătrîneţe sau în celelalte cazuri de pierdere a mijloacelor de subzistenţă, în urma unor împrejurări independente de voinţa lor. (Art. 47)
Public Institutions and Services
- English1. The family, as the fundamental element of the society, shall have the right to protection by the society and by the State.
2. It shall be incumbent, especially, upon the State:
a) To promote social and economic independence of households;
b) To promote the creation of a national network of maternal-infant assistance;
c) To cooperate with parents in the raising of their children. (Art. 51) - Portuguese1. A família, como elemento fundamental da sociedade, tem direito à protecção de sociedade e do Estado.
2. Incumbe, especialmente, ao Estado:
a) Promover a independência social e económica dos agregados familiares;
b) Promover a criação de uma rede nacional de assistência materno-infantil;
c) Cooperar com os pais na educação dos filhos. (Art. 51)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe social security constitutes a public service of an obligatory character. The law will regulate its scope, extent, and form.
Said service shall be rendered by one or various institutions, which must observe among them an adequate coordination to assure a good policy of social protection, in [a] specialized form and with optimum utilization of resources.
The employers, workers, and the State will contribute to the payment of the social security in the form and quantity determined by the law.
… (Art. 50) - SpanishLa seguridad social constituye un servicio público de carácter obligatorio. La ley regulará sus alcances, extensión y forma.
Dicho servicio será prestado por una o varias instituciones, las que deberán guardar entre sí la adecuada coordinación para asegurar una buena política de protección social, en forma especializada y con óptima utilización de los recursos.
Al pago de la seguridad social contribuirán los patronos, los trabajadores y el Estado en la forma y cuantía que determine la ley.
… (Art. 50)