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Religious Law
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20. The State shall strive to create conditions that will enable the true and sustainable development of a good and compassionate society rooted in Buddhist ethos and universal human values.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༢༠) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་ཁྱབ་ཀྱི་ཁྱད་ཆོས་དང་ སངས་རྒྱས་པའི་གྲུབ་མཐར་རྩ་བ་འཛིན་པའི་ལེགས་ལྡན་དང་ བྱམས་སྙིང་ ལྡན་པའི་ མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་ ཡུན་བརྟན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངོས་སུ་འབྱུང་ ཚུགས་པའི་གནས་སྟངས་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་ དོན་གཉེར་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Religious Law
- English1. The Republic of Kazakhstan proclaims itself as a democratic, secular, legal and social state whose highest values are a person, his life, rights, and freedoms.
… (Art. 1) - Kazak1. Қазақстан Республикасы өзiн демократиялық, зайырлы, құқықтық және әлеуметтiк мемлекет ретiнде орнықтырады, оның ең қымбат қазынасы - адам және адамның өмiрi, құқықтары мен бостандықтары.
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Religious Law
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3. Samoa is a Christian nation founded on God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. (Art. 1) - Samoan
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(3) O Samoa o se atunuu Kerisiano e faavae i le Atua le Tama, le Alo ma le Agaga Paia. (Mataupu 1)
Religious Law
- English(a) The religion of the State of the Maldives is Islam. Islam shall be the one of the basis of all the laws of the Maldives
(b) No law contrary to any tenet of Islam8 shall be enacted in the Maldives (Art. 10) - Dhivehi(ހ) ދިވެހިދައުލަތުގެ ދީނަކީ އިސްލާމްދީނެވެ. އަދި، އިސްލާމްދީނަކީ ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގެ ޤާނޫނުގެމައިގަނޑު މަޞްދަރެކެވެ.
(ށ) ދިވެހިރާއްޖޭގައި އިސްލާމްދީނުގެ އަސްލަކާ ހިލާފު އެއްވެސް ޤާނޫނެއް ނުހެދޭނެއެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 10 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Religious Law
- EnglishBurundi is an independent, sovereign, secular, democratic, and unitary Republic [,] respecting its ethnic and religious diversity. (Art. 1)
- KirundiUburundi ni Republika imwe rudende, yishira ikizana, itegamiye idini na rimwe, ishingiye ku ntwaro rusangi, yubahiriza ubudasa muvyerekeye amoko n’amadini. (Ingingo ya 1)
- FrenchLe Burundi est une République indépendante, souveraine, laïque, démocratique, unitaire et respectant sa diversité ethnique et religieuse. (Art. 1)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe State shall pursue the following policies:
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(c) Relating to social and cultural transformation:
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(5) to end all forms of discrimination, inequality, exploitation and injustice in the name of religion, custom, usage, practice and tradition existing in the society,
… (Art. 51) - Nepaliराज्यले देहायका नीतिहरू अवलम्बन गर्नेछ:
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(ग) सामाजिक र सांस्कृतिक रूपान्तरण सम्बन्धी नीतिः
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(५) समाजमा विद्यमान धर्म, प्रथा, परम्परा, रीति तथा संस्कारका नाममा हुने सबै प्रकारका विभेद, असमानता, शोषण र अन्यायको अन्त गर्ने,
... (धारा ५१)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Congolese People,
Conscious of the necessity to preserve the peace and the stability, the unitary form and the secular and indivisible character of the State, the national unity and social cohesion;
… (Preamble) - FrenchLe Peuple congolais,
Conscient de la nécessité de préserver la paix et la stabilité, la forme unitaire et le caractère laïc et indivisible de l’Etat, l’unité nationale et la cohésion sociale;
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Religious Law
- EnglishThe right of inheritance shall be maintained and governed by Shari’a law. (Art. 51)
- Arabicحق الإرث مصون وتحكمه الشريعة الإسلامية. (الماّدة 51)
Religious Law
- EnglishGuinea is a unitary republic, indivisible, secular, democratic and social.
… (Art. 1) - FrenchLa Guinée est une République unitaire, indivisible, laïque, démocratique et sociale.
… (Art. 1)
Religious Law
- EnglishThe Republic of Tajikistan shall be a sovereign, democratic, law-based, secular, and unitary state. … (Art. 1)
- RussianРеспублика Таджикистан – суверенное, демократическое, правовое, светское и унитарное государство. … (Статья 1)
- TajikҶумҳурии Тоҷикистон давлати соҳибихтиёр, демократӣ, ҳуқуқбунёд, дунявӣ ва ягона мебошад. ... (Моддаи 1)