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Indigenous Peoples
- English…
II. The Public Defender shall also promote the defense of the rights of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, of urban and intercultural communities, and of Bolivians who are abroad.
… (Art. 218) - Spanish…
II. Corresponderá asimismo a la Defensoría del Pueblo la promoción de la defensa de los derechos de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos, de las comunidades urbanas e interculturales, y de las bolivianas y los bolivianos en el exterior.
… (Art. 218)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe National Congress shall have exclusive powers:
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XVI. to authorize exploitation and use of water resources, prospecting and mining of mineral wealth on indigenous lands;
… (Art. 49) - PortugueseÉ da competência exclusiva do Congresso Nacional:
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XVI - autorizar, em terras indígenas, a exploração e o aproveitamento de recursos hídricos e a pesquisa e lavra de riquezas minerais;
… (Art. 49)
Indigenous Peoples
- English(1) There shall be a Commission for the Scheduled Tribes to be known as the National Commission for the Scheduled Tribes.
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(5) It shall be the duty of the Commission:
(a) to investigate and monitor all matters relating to the safeguards provided for the Scheduled Tribes under this Constitution or under any other law for the time being in force or under any order of the Government and to evaluate the working of such safeguards;
(b) to inquire into specific complaints with respect to the deprivation of rights and safeguards of the Scheduled Tribes;
(c) to participate and advise on the planning process of socioeconomic development of the Scheduled Tribes and to evaluate the progress of their development under the Union and any State;
(d) to present to the President, annually and at such other times as the Commission may deem fit, reports upon the working of those safeguards;
(e) to make in such reports recommendation as to the measures that should be taken by the Union or any State for the effective implementation of those safeguards and other measures for the protection, welfare and socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes; and
(f) to discharge such other functions in relation to the protection, welfare and development and advancement of the Scheduled Tribes as the President may, subject to the provisions of any law made by Parliament, by rule specify.
… (Art. 338A) - Hindi(1) अनुसूचित जनजातियों के लिए एक आयोग होगा, जो राष्ट्रीय अनुसूचित जनजाति आयोग के नाम से ज्ञात होगा।
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(5) आयोग का यह कर्तव्य होगा कि वह:
(क) अनुसूचित जनजातियों के लिए इस संविधान या तत्समय प्रवृत्त किसी अन्य विधि या सरकार के किसी आदेश के अधीन उपबंधित रक्षोपायों से संबंधित सभी विषयों का अन्वेषण करे और उन पर निगरानी रखे तथा ऐसे रक्षोपायों के कार्यकरण का मूल्यांकन करे;
(ख) अनुसूचित जनजातियों को उनके अधिकारों और रक्षोपायों से वंचित करने की बाबत विनिर्दिष्ट शिकायतों की जांच करे;
(ग) अनुसूचित जनजातियों के सामाजिक-आर्थिक विकास की योजना प्रक्रिया में भाग ले और उन पर सलाह दे तथा संघ और किसी राज्य के अधीन उनके विकास की प्रगति का मूल्यांकन करे;
(घ) उन रक्षोपायों के कार्यकरण के बारे में प्रतिवर्ष, और ऐसे अन्य समयों पर, जो आयोग ठीक समझे, राष्ट्रपति को रिपोर्ट प्रस्तुत करे;
(ड.) ऐसे रिपोर्ट में उन उपायों के बारे में जो उन रक्षोपायों के प्रभावपूर्ण कार्यान्वयन के लिए संघ या किसी राज्य द्वारा किए जाने चाहिए, तथा अनुसूचित जनजातियों के संरक्षण, कल्याण और सामाजिक-आर्थिक विकास के लिए अन्य उपायों के बारे में सिफ़ारिश करे; और
(च) अनुसूचित जनजातियों के संरक्षण, कल्याण, और विकास तथा उन्नयन के संबंध में ऐसे अन्य कृत्यों का निर्वहन करे जो राष्ट्रपति, संसद द्वारा बनाई गई किसी विधि के उपबंधों के अधीन रहते हुए, नियम द्वारा विनिर्दिष्ट करे।
… (अनुच्छेद 338क)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe form of the indigenous territorial entities will be made subject to what the Organic Law of Territorial Ordering provides, and their delimitation will be made by the National Government, with the participation of the representatives of the indigenous communities, after the opinion of the Commission of Territorial Ordering.The reservations [resguardos] are collective property and non-alienable.
The law will define the relations and coordination of these entities with those of which they form a part.
… (Art. 329) - SpanishLa conformación de las entidades territoriales indígenas se hará con sujeción a lo dispuesto en la Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial, y su delimitación se hará por el Gobierno Nacional, con participación de los representantes de las comunidades indígenas, previo concepto de la Comisión de Ordenamiento Territorial. Los resguardos son de propiedad colectiva y no enajenable.
La ley definirá las relaciones y la coordinación de estas entidades con aquellas de las cuales formen parte.
… (Art. 329)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishEvery citizen shall be at liberty in the exercise of the following rights, if not contrary to the laws, enacted for Union security, prevalence of law and order, community peace and tranquility or public order and morality:
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(d) to develop their language, literature, culture they cherish, religion they profess, and customs without prejudice to the relations between one national race and another or among national races and to other faiths. (Sec. 354) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် နိုင်ငံတော်လုံးခြုံရေး၊ တရားဥပဒေစိုးမိုးရေး၊ ရပ်ရွာအေးချမ်းသာယာရေး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်သူတို့၏ ကိုယ်ကျင့်တရားအကျိုးငှာ ပြဌာန်းထားသည့် ဥပဒေများနှင့် မဆန့်ကျင်လျှင် အောက်ပါအခွင့်အရေးများကို လွတ်လပ်စွာ သုံးစွဲဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့်ရှိသည် -
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(ဃ) တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုး တစ်မျိုးနှင့် တစ်မျိုး သို့မဟုတ် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးအချင်းချင်း ကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ အခြားဘာသာသာသနာကိုလည်းကောင်း ထိခိုက်နစ်နာမှုမရှိစေဘဲ မိမိချစ်ခင်မြတ်နိုးသည့် စကား၊ စာပေ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ ကိုးကွယ်သည့်ဘာသာ သာသနာနှင့် ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းများကို လွတ်လပ်စွာ ဆောင်ရွက်ပိုင်ခွင့်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၅၄)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThrough special programs and adequate legislation, the State will provide state lands to the indigenous communities who may need them for their development. (Art. 68)
- SpanishMediante programas especiales y legislación adecuada, el Estado proveerá de tierras estatales a las comunidades indígenas que las necesiten para su desarrollo. (Art. 68)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
… The State … shall support indigenous, appropriate, and self-reliant scientific and technological capabilities, and their application to the country’s productive systems and national life. (Art. XIV, Sec. 10)
- Filipino
… ang Estado ... Dapat suportahan nito ang mga kakayahang siyentipiko at teknolohikal na katutubo, angkop at umaasa sa sariling kakayahan at ang kanilang kabagayan sa mga sistemang pamproduksyon at pambansang kapamuhayang pambansa. (Art. XIV, Seksyon 10)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
The Agrarian Reform will eliminate the idle latifundios [large estates] and will be made by priority with lands of the State. When the expropriation of idle latifundios affects private owners [proprietarios], it will be fulfilled within that stipulated in Article 44 of this Constitution. The Agrarian Reform shall eliminate any form of exploitation of the peasants, and of the indigenous communities of the country and shall promote forms of ownership compatible with the economic and social objectives of the Nation, established in this Constitution. The regime of ownership of the indigenous communities will be regulated in accordance with the law on the matter. (Art. 107)
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La Reforma agraria eliminará el latifundio ocioso y se hará prioritariamente con tierras del Estado. Cuando la expropiación de latifundios ociosos afecte a propietarios privados se hará cumpliendo con lo estipulado en el artículo 44 de esta Constitución. La Reforma Agraria eliminará cualquier forma de explotación a los campesinos, a las comunidades indígenas del país y promoverá las formas de propiedad compatibles con los objetivos económicos y sociales de la nación, establecidos en esta Constitución. El régimen de propiedad de las tierras de las comunidades indígenas se regulará de acuerdo a la ley de la materia. (Art. 107)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishHer Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf. (Treaty of Waitangi, Article the Second)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishNative peoples have the right to maintain and develop their ethnical and cultural entity, world view, values, spirituality and holy places and places of cult. The State shall promote the appreciation and dissemination of the cultural manifestations of the native peoples, who have the right to their own education, and an education system of an intercultural and bilingual nature, taking into account their special social and cultural characteristics, values and traditions. (Art. 121)
- SpanishLos pueblos indígenas tienen derecho a mantener y desarrollar su identidad étnica y cultural, cosmovisión, valores, espiritualidad y sus lugares sagrados y de culto. El Estado fomentará la valoración y difusión de las manifestaciones culturales de los pueblos indígenas, los cuales tienen derecho a una educación propia y a un régimen educativo de carácter intercultural y bilingüe, atendiendo a sus particularidades socioculturales, valores y tradiciones. (Art. 121)