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Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe principles that govern territorial organization and the decentralized and autonomous territorial entities are: unity, voluntariness, solidarity, equity, the common good, self government, equality, complementariness, reciprocity, gender equity, subsidiarity, gradualness, coordination and institutional faithfulness, transparency, public participation and control, provision of economic resources and the pre-existence of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, under the terms established in this Constitution. (Art. 270)
- SpanishLos principios que rigen la organización territorial y las entidades territoriales descentralizadas y autónomas son: la unidad, voluntariedad, solidaridad, equidad, bien común, autogobierno, igualdad, complementariedad, reciprocidad, equidad de género, subsidiariedad, gradualidad, coordinación y lealtad institucional, transparencia, participación y control social, provisión de recursos económicos y preexistencia de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos, en los términos establecidos en esta Constitución. (Art. 270)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishMinimum curricula shall be established for elementary education so as to assure a common basic education and respect for national and regional cultural and artistic values.
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§2°. Regular elementary education shall be given in the Portuguese language, also assuring to indigenous communities the use of their native languages and their own learning procedures. (Art. 210) - PortugueseSerão fixados conteúdos mínimos para o ensino fundamental, de maneira a assegurar formação básica comum e respeito aos valores culturais e artísticos, nacionais e regionais.
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§ 2º O ensino fundamental regular será ministrado em língua portuguesa, assegurada às comunidades indígenas também a utilização de suas línguas maternas e processos próprios de aprendizagem. (Art. 210)
Indigenous Peoples
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(3) The cultural identities and rights of traditional communities shall be respected in accordance with the development of times and civilisations.
… (Art. 28I) - Indonesian…
(3) Identitas budaya dan hak masyarakat tradisional dihormati selaras denganperkembangan zaman dan peradaban.
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Indigenous Peoples
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The other ancestral languages are in official use by indigenous peoples in the areas where they live and in accordance with the terms set forth by law. The State shall respect and encourage their preservation and use. (Art. 2) - Spanish…
Los demás idiomas ancestrales son de uso oficial para los pueblos indígenas en las zonas donde habitan y en los términos que fija la ley. El Estado respetará y estimulará su conservación y uso. (Art. 2)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishIn electing people’s representatives to the Hluttaws:
(a) every citizen who has attained 18 years of age on the day on which the election commences, who is not disqualified by law, who is eligible to vote, and person who has the right to vote under the law, shall have the right to vote;
(b) every citizen who is eligible to vote and person who has the right to vote under the law shall cast a vote only for each Hluttaw at a constituency in an election;
(c) Moreover, the relevant national races having right to vote in accord with the provisions contained in this Constitution have also the right to vote to elect Hluttaw representatives of national races for their Region or State Hluttaw;
… (Sec. 391) - Burmeseလွှတ်တော်များသို့ ပြည်သူ့ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များကို ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ရာတွင် -
(က) ရွေးကောက်ပွဲစတင်ကျင်းပသည့် နေ့ရက်၌ အသက် ၁၈ နှစ်ပြည့်၍ ဥပဒေအရ အရည်အချင်း ပျက်ယွင်းသူမဟုတ်သည့်အပြင် ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံသားနှင့် ဥပဒေအရ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးခွင့်ရှိသူတိုင်းသည် ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
(ခ) ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နိုင်ငံသားနှင့် ဥပဒေအရ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးခွင့် ရှိသူတိုင်းသည် ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတစ်ရပ်၌ မဲဆန္ဒနယ် တစ်နယ်တွင် လွှတ်တော်တစ်ရပ်စီအတွက် ဆန္ဒမဲတစ်မဲသာ ပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
(ဂ) ထို့ပြင် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေပါ ပြဌာန်းချက်များနှင့်အညီ ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသော သက်ဆိုင်ရာတိုင်းရင်းသားတိုင်းများသည် မိမိတို့၏ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်လွှတ်တော်အတွက် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ရာတွင်လည်း ဆန္ဒမဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသည်၊
...(ပုဒ်မ-၃၉၁)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishWE, THE GUYANESE PEOPLE,
… proclaim this Constitution in order to:
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Celebrate our cultural and racial diversity and strengthen our unity by eliminating any and every form of discrimination;
Value the special place in our nation of the Indigenous Peoples and recognize their right as citizens to land and security and to their promulgation of policies for their communities;
… (Preamble)
Indigenous Peoples
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“person belonging to the Malay community” means any person, whether of the Malay race or otherwise, who considers himself to be a member of the Malay community and who is generally accepted as a member of the Malay community by that community;
… (Art. 39A)
Indigenous Peoples
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The State will organize by means of a law, the regime of autonomy for the indigenous peoples and the ethnic communities of the Caribbean Coast, which must contain among other norms: the attributions of their organs of government, their relation with the Executive and Legislative Power and with the municipalities, and the exercise of their rights. Said law, for its approval and reform, will require the majority established for the reform of the constitutional laws.
... (Art. 181) - Spanish
El Estado organizará, por medio de una Ley el régimen de autonomía para los pueblos indígenas y las comunidades étnicas de la Costa Caribe, la que deberá contener entre otras normas: las atribuciones de sus órganos de gobierno, su relación con el Poder Ejecutivo y Legislativo y con los municipios y el ejercicio de sus derechos. Dicha ley, para su aprobación y reforma, requerirá de la mayoría establecida para la reforma a las leyes constitucionales.
... (Art. 181)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishIn this Chapter-
a. “Banaban” and “Banabans” means the former indigenous inhabitants of Banaba and such other persons one of whose ancestors was born in Kiribati before 1900 as may now or hereafter be accepted as members of the Banaban community in accordance with custom;
b. “Rabi Council” means the Council of Leaders establish by the Banaban Settlement Ordinance 1970 of Fiji and includes such successor body as represents the Banaban community on Banaba and Rabi Island in Fiji. (Sec. 125)
Indigenous Peoples
- English1. The Republic of Vanuatu recognises, that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on non-citizens and holders of dual citizenship who are not indigenous or naturalised citizens, all persons are entitled to the following fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual without discrimination on the grounds of race, place of origin, religious or traditional beliefs, political opinions, language or sex but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and to the legitimate public interest in defence, safety, public order, welfare and health-
... (Art. 5) - French1) Sous réserve des restrictions que la Loi peut imposer aux non-citoyens et aux détenteurs de la double nationalité qui ne sont pas indigènes ou citoyens naturalisés et dans le respect des droits et libertés d'autrui et de l'intérêt public légitime en matière de défense, de sécurité, d'ordre public, de prospérité et de santé, la République de Vanuatu reconnaît que toute personne, sans distinction de race, lieu d'origine, croyances religieuses ou traditionnelles, opinions politiques, langue ou sexe jouit des droits fondamentaux et les libertés individuelles suivants:
... (Art. 5)