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Indigenous Peoples
- English…
2. All levels of government shall:
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c. facilitate the development of the private sector, particularly indigenous entrepreneurs to establish and develop a viable private sector capable of participating effectively in reconstruction and development;
… (Art. 37)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishI. The judicial function is singular. Ordinary jurisdiction is exercised by the Supreme Court of Justice, the departmental courts of justice, the sentencing courts and the judges; the agro-environmental jurisdiction is exercised by the Agro-Environmental Court and judges; and the rural native indigenous jurisdiction is exercised by their own authorities. There shall be specialized jurisdictions regulated by the law.
II. Ordinary jurisdiction and rural native indigenous jurisdiction enjoy equal status.
… (Art. 179) - SpanishI. La función judicial es única. La jurisdicción ordinaria se ejerce por el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia, los tribunales departamentales de justicia, los tribunales de sentencia y los jueces; la jurisdicción agroambiental por el Tribunal y jueces agroambientales; la jurisdicción indígena originaria campesina se ejerce por sus propias autoridades; existirán jurisdicciones especializadas reguladas por la ley.
II. La jurisdicción ordinaria y la jurisdicción indígena originario campesina gozarán de igual jerarquía.
... (Art. 179)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall recognize, respect, protect and promote community economic development. This form of community economic organization includes productive and reproductive systems of public life, founded on the principles and visions of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples. (Art. 307)
- SpanishEl Estado reconocerá, respetará, protegerá y promoverá la organización económica comunitaria. Esta forma de organización económica comunitaria comprende los sistemas de producción y reproducción de la vida social, fundados en los principios y visión propios de las naciones y pueblos indígena originario y campesinos. (Art. 307)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall promote with special care the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and, in particular, of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation. (Art. 46)
- Hindiराज्य, जनता के दुर्बल वर्गों के, विशिष्टतया, अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के शिक्षा और अर्थ संबंधी हितों की विशेष सावधानी से अभिवृद्धि करेगा और सामाजिक अन्याय और सभी प्रकार के शोषण से उनकी संरक्षा करेगा। (अनुच्छेद 46)
Indigenous Peoples
- English(1) This Charter applies
(a) to the Parliament and government of Canada in respect of all matters within the authority of Parliament including all matters relating to the Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories; and
(b) to the legislature and government of each province in respect of all matters within the authority of the legislature of each province.
… (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 32) - French(1) La présente charte s’applique:
a) au Parlement et au gouvernement du Canada, pour tous les domaines relevant du Parlement, y compris ceux qui concernent le territoire du Yukon et les territoires du Nord-Ouest;
b) à la législature et au gouvernement de chaque province, pour tous les domaines relevant de cette législature.
... (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 32)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe Union shall assist :
(a) to develop language, literature, fine arts and culture of the National races;
(b) to promote solidarity, mutual amity and respect and mutual assistance among the National races;
(c) to promote socio-economic development including education, health, economy, transport and communication, so forth, of less-developed National races. (Sec. 22) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် -
(က) တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ စကား၊ စာပေ၊ အနုပညာ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု တို့ကို ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်စေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ခ) တိုင်းရင်းသားအချင်းချင်း စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေး၊ ချစ်ကြည်လေးစားရေးနှင့် ရိုင်းပင်း ကူညီရေးတို့ တိုးတက်ဖြစ်ထွန်းစေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ဂ) တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုနည်းပါးနေသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ ပညာရေး၊ ကျန်းမာရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး စသည်တို့ပါဝင်သော လူမှုစီးပွားရေး တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုး ရေးအတွက် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၂)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe lands of the cooperatives, [the] indigenous communities or any other forms of communal or collective possession of agrarian ownership, as well as the family patrimony and the people's housing, will enjoy special protection of the State, [and] of preferential credit and technical assistance, which may guarantee their possession and development, in order to assure an improved quality of life to all of the inhabitants.
The indigenous communities and others that hold lands that historically belong to them and which they have traditionally administered in special form, will maintain that system. (Art. 67) - SpanishLas tierras de las cooperativas, comunidades indígenas o cualesquiera otras formas de tenencia comunal o colectiva de propiedad agraria, así como el patrimonio familiar y vivienda popular, gozarán de protección especial del Estado, de asistencia crediticia y de técnica preferencial, que garanticen su posesión y desarrollo, a fin de asegurar a todos los habitantes una mejor calidad de vida.
Las comunidades indígenas y otras que tengan tierras que históricamente les pertenecen y que tradicionalmente han administrado en forma especial, mantendrán ese sistema. (Art. 67)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall:
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(4) Encourage non-formal, informal, and indigenous learning systems, as well as self-learning, independent, and out-of-school study programs particularly those that respond to community needs;
… (Art. XIV, Sec. 2) - FilipinoAng Estado ay dapat:
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(4) Pasiglahin ang di-pormal, impormal at katutubong mga sistema ng pagkatuto, at gayon din ang mga programang pagkatuto sa sarili, sarilinang pag-aaral at pag-aaral sa labas ng paaralan lalo na yaong tumutugon sa mga pangangailangan ng pamayanan;
… (Art. XIV, Seksyon 2)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
The State has the obligation to adopt [dictar] laws designed to promote actions that assure that no Nicaraguan will be the object of discrimination for reason of their [su] language, culture and origin. (Art. 91)
- Spanish
El Estado tiene la obligación de dictar leyes destinadas a promover acciones que aseguren que ningún nicaragüense sea objeto de discriminación por razón de su lengua, cultura y origen. (Art. 91)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF FIJI,
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the Rotuman from the island of Rotuma, their ownership of Rotuman lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
… (Preamble) - iTaukeiO KEIMAMI NA LEWEI VITI,
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua se kawa itaukei, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, na nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua o Rotuma, mai na yanuyanu o Rotuma, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
… (Ikau)