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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Everyone has the right to form a family and to marry under conditions of full equality.
2. The law shall regulate the requisites for and the effects of marriage and its dissolution by death or divorce, regardless of the form in which it was entered into.
3. Spouses have equal rights and duties in relation to their civil and political capacity and to the maintenance and education of their children.
4. Children born outside wedlock may not be the object of any discrimination for that reason, and neither the law, nor official departments or services may employ discriminatory terms in relation to filiation.
5. Parents have the right and the duty to educate and maintain their children.
6. Children may not be separated from their parents, save when the latter do not fulfil their fundamental duties towards them, and then always by judicial decision.
7. Adoption shall be regulated and protected in accordance with the law, which must lay down swift forms for completion of the respective procedural requirements. (Art. 36) - Portuguese1. Todos têm o direito de constituir família e de contrair casamento em condições de plena igualdade.
2. A lei regula os requisitos e os efeitos do casamento e da sua dissolução, por morte ou divórcio, independentemente da forma de celebração.
3. Os cônjuges têm iguais direitos e deveres quanto à capacidade civil e política e à manutenção e educação dos filhos.
4. Os filhos nascidos fora do casamento não podem, por esse motivo, ser objecto de qualquer discriminação e a lei ou as repartições oficiais não podem usar designações discriminatórias relativas à filiação.
5. Os pais têm o direito e o dever de educação e manutenção dos filhos.
6. Os filhos não podem ser separados dos pais, salvo quando estes não cumpram os seus deveres fundamentais para com eles e sempre mediante decisão judicial.
7. A adopção é regulada e protegida nos termos da lei, a qual deve estabelecer formas céleres para a respectiva tramitação. (Art. 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishAll persons are entitled to Social Security as a nonprofit public service to guarantee health and protection in contingencies of maternity, fatherhood, illness, invalidity, catastrophic illness, disability, special needs, occupational risks, loss of employment, unemployment, old age, widowhood, loss of parents, housing, burdens deriving from family life, and any other social welfare circumstances. The State has the obligation and responsibility of ensuring the efficacy of this right, creating a universal and complete Social Security system, with joint, unitary, efficient and participatory financing from direct and indirect contributions. The lack of ability to contribute shall not be ground for excluding persons from protection by the system. … (Art. 86)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a la seguridad social como servicio público de carácter no lucrativo, que garantice la salud y asegure protección en contingencias de maternidad, paternidad, enfermedad, invalidez, enfermedades catastróficas, discapacidad, necesidades especiales, riesgos laborales, pérdida de empleo, desempleo, vejez, viudedad, orfandad, vivienda, cargas derivadas de la vida familiar y cualquier otra circunstancia de previsión social. El Estado tiene la obligación de asegurar la efectividad de este derecho, creando un sistema de seguridad social universal, integral, de financiamiento solidario, unitario, eficiente y participativo, de contribuciones directas o indirectas. La ausencia de capacidad contributiva no será motivo para excluir a las personas de su protección. … (Art. 86)
Marriage and Family Life
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(3) The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring that –
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(h) the evolution and promotion of family life is encouraged. (Sec. 17)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe children born in or out of matrimony and the adopted [ones], have equal rights before their parents. [It] is the obligation of these to give their children protection, assistance, education and security.
Any description [calificación] concerning the nature of the affiliation will not be consigned in the records of the Civil Registry, nor will the civil status of the parents be expressed in the birth certificates [partidas].
Every person has the right to have a name to be identified [with]. The secondary law [ley secundaria] will regulate this matter.
The law will determine likewise the forms of investigating and establishing the paternity. (Art. 36) - SpanishLos hijos nacidos dentro o fuera de matrimonio y los adoptivos, tienen iguales derechos frente a sus padres. Es obligación de éstos dar a sus hijos protección, asistencia, educación y seguridad.
No se consignará en las actas del Registro Civil ninguna calificación sobre la naturaleza de la filiación, ni se expresará en las partidas de nacimiento el estado civil de los padres.
Toda persona tiene derecho a tener un nombre que la identifique. La ley secundaria regulará esta materia.
La ley determinará asimismo las formas de investigar y establecer la paternidad. (Art. 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception. The natural and primary right and duty of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character shall receive the support of the Government. (Art. II, Sec. 12)
- FilipinoKinikilala ng Estado ang kabanalan ng buhay pampamilya at dapat pangalagaan at patatagin ang pamilya bilang isang saligang institusyong lipunan. Dapat nitong pangalagaan kapwa ang buhay ng ina at ang buhay ng sanggol sa sinapupunan mula sa paglilihi. Ang likas at pangunahing karapatan at tungkulin ng mga magulang sa pagmumulat ng kabataan para sa kahusayang sibiko at pagpapaunlad ng karakter na moral ay dapat tumanggap ng tangkilik ng Pamahalaan. (Art. II, Seksyon 12)
Marriage and Family Life
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A child born out of wedlock shall have the same rights as a child born in wedlock.
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Деца рођена изван брака имају једнака права као деца рођена у браку.
... (Члан 64)
Marriage and Family Life
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19. A person shall not be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence nor to unlawful attacks on the person’s honour and reputation.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༡༩) མི་ཅིག་གི་རང་གསང་ ཡང་ན་ བཟའ་ཚང་ སྡོད་གནས་ འཕྲིན་འབྲེལ་བཅས་ལུ་བཙན་དབང་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྲིམས་ འགལ་གྱི་ ཐེ་གཏོགས་དང་ ཁོའམ་མོ་རའི་ཆེ་བསྟོད་དང་སྙན་གྲགས་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་གནོད་བཀལ་གྱི་ དབང་ལུ་ བསྡུ་ནི་ མེད།
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishParents have the natural right and the duty to raise their children. They are sustained in this effort, by the State and the public collectivities. … (Art. 20)
- FrenchLes parents ont le droit naturel et le devoir d'élever leurs enfants. Ils sont soutenus, dans cette tâche, par l'Etat et les collectivités publiques. ... (Art. 20)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following are the fundamental obligations of the State:
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d. To see to the raising of the standard of living of all the inhabitants of the country, securing [procurando] the wellbeing of the family;
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d) Velar por la elevación del nivel de vida de todos los habitantes del país, procurando el bienestar de la familia;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe state shall protect the family as the basis of society.
Everyone shall have the right to form a family. Men and women who have reached the age of marriage shall have the right freely to marry. In marriage and in divorce, husband and wife shall have equal rights.
Polygamy shall be prohibited. (Art. 33) - RussianСемья как основа общества, находится под защитой государства.
Каждый имеет право на создании семьи. Мужчины и женщины, достигшие брачного возраста, имеют право свободно вступать в брак. В семейных отношениях и при расторжении брака супруги равноправны.
Многобрачие запрещается. (Статья 33) - TajikДавлат оиларо ҳамчун асоси ҷамъият ҳимоя мекунад.
Ҳар кас ҳуқуқи ташкили оила дорад. Мардон ва занон, ки ба синни никоҳ расидаанд, ҳуқуқ доранд озодона ақди никоҳ банданд. Дар оиладорӣ ва бекор кардани ақди никоҳ зану шавҳар баробарҳуқуқанд.
Бисёрникоҳӣ манъ аст. (Моддаи 33)