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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishPublic services are meant to satisfy the necessities of collective interest. They shall be declared by law. Consequently:
1. The State guarantees access to public services of quality, directly or by delegation, through concession, authorization, association in participation, transfer of actionable property or other contractual modality, in accordance with this Constitution and the law.
2. Public services given by the State or by individuals, the legal or contractual modalities, must respond to the principles of universality, accessibility, efficiency, transparency, responsibility, continuity, quality, reasonability, and equity of price.
… (Art. 147) - SpanishLos servicios públicos están destinados a satisfacer las necesidades de interés colectivo. Serán declarados por ley. En consecuencia:
1) El Estado garantiza el acceso a servicios públicos de calidad, directamente o por delegación, mediante concesión, autorización, asociación en participación, transferencia de la propiedad accionaria u otra modalidad contractual, de conformidad con esta Constitución y la ley;
2) Los servicios públicos prestados por el Estado o por los particulares, en las modalidades legales o contractuales, deben responder a los principios de universalidad, accesibilidad, eficiencia, transparencia, responsabilidad, continuidad, calidad, razonabilidad y equidad tarifaria;
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Public Institutions and Services
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3. The State shall ensure peaceful and stable conditions by establishing appropriate participatory institutions that guarantee and hasten equitable economic and social progress. (Art. 6)
Public Institutions and Services
- English1. Labour is the driving force of development and shall merit respect and protection.
2. The State shall promote the fair distribution of the proceeds of labour.
… (Art. 112) - Portuguese1. O trabalho é a força motriz do desenvolvimento e é dignificado e protegido.
2. O Estado propugna a justa repartição dos rendimentos do trabalho.
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Public Institutions and Services
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Every citizen unable to work and without the necessary means of subsistence shall be entitled to welfare support.
Workers shall be entitled to adequate means for their living requirements in case of accidents, illness, disability, old age and involuntary unemployment.
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Responsibilities under this Article shall be vested into entities and institutions established or supported by the State.
... (Art. 38) - Italian
Ogni cittadino inabile al lavoro e sprovvisto dei mezzi necessari per vivere ha diritto al mantenimento e all’assistenza sociale.
I lavoratori hanno diritto che siano preveduti ed assicurati mezzi adeguati alle loro esigenze di vita in caso di infortunio, malattia, invalidità e vecchiaia, disoccupazione involontaria.
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Ai compiti previsti in questo articolo provvedono organi ed istituti predisposti o integrati dallo Stato.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe development structure shall have the following objectives:
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2. To build a fair, democratic, productive, mutually supportive and sustainable economic system based on the egalitarian distribution of the benefits of development and the means of production, and on the creation of decent, stable employment.
… (Art. 276) - SpanishEl régimen de desarrollo tendrá los siguientes objetivos:
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2. Construir un sistema económico, justo, democrático, productivo, solidario y sostenible basado en la distribución igualitaria de los beneficios del desarrollo, de los medios de producción y en la generación de trabajo digno y estable.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishIn order to attain the objectives specified in Article 2, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has the duty of directing all its resources to the following goals:
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12. Building a valid and just economic system, in accordance with Islamic criteria, in order to create welfare, eliminate poverty, and abolish all forms of deprivation with respect to food, housing, work, health care, and the provision of social insurance for all;
… (Art. 3) - Persianدولت جمهوری اسلامی ایران موظف است برای نیل به اهداف مذکور در اصل دوم، همه امکانات خود را برای امور زیر به کار برد:
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12- پیریزی اقتصادی صحیح و عادلانه برطبق ضوابط اسلامی جهت ایجاد رفاه و رفع فقر و برطرف ساختن هر نوع محرومیت در زمینههای تغذیه و مسکن و کار و بهداشت و تعمیم بیمه.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe State shall support and protect social organizations recognized by law which, in correspondence with specific interests, shall frame and foment the civic participation of the citizens. (Art. 62)
- PortugueseO Estado apoia e protege as organizações sociais reconhecidas por lei que, em correspondência com interesses específicos, enquadram e fomentam a participação cívica dos cidadãos. (Art. 62)
Public Institutions and Services
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1. The authorities shall take steps to promote the health of the population.
2. It shall be the concern of the authorities to provide sufficient living accommodation.
3. The authorities shall promote social and cultural development and leisure activities. (Art. 22) - Dutch
1. De overheid treft maatregelen ter bevordering van de volksgezondheid.
2. Bevordering van voldoende woongelegenheid is voorwerp van zorg der overheid.
3. Zij schept voorwaarden voor maatschappelijke en culturele ontplooiing en voor vrijetijdsbesteding. (Art. 22)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe social security constitutes a public service of an obligatory character. The law will regulate its scope, extent, and form.
Said service shall be rendered by one or various institutions, which must observe among them an adequate coordination to assure a good policy of social protection, in [a] specialized form and with optimum utilization of resources.
The employers, workers, and the State will contribute to the payment of the social security in the form and quantity determined by the law.
… (Art. 50) - SpanishLa seguridad social constituye un servicio público de carácter obligatorio. La ley regulará sus alcances, extensión y forma.
Dicho servicio será prestado por una o varias instituciones, las que deberán guardar entre sí la adecuada coordinación para asegurar una buena política de protección social, en forma especializada y con óptima utilización de los recursos.
Al pago de la seguridad social contribuirán los patronos, los trabajadores y el Estado en la forma y cuantía que determine la ley.
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Public Institutions and Services
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The State and society focus on building, improving disease prevention systems, providing health care to all people with quality, creating conditions to ensure that all people have access to health care, especially women and children, poor people and people in remote areas, to ensure the people's good health.
… (Art. 25) - Lao
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ລັດ ແລະ ສັງຄົມ ຕັ້ງໜ້າກໍ່ສ້າງ ແລະ ປັບປຸງລະບົບການກັນພະຍາດ, ປິ່ນປົວຄົນເຈັບຢ່າງທົ່ວເຖິງ, ແລະ ມີຄຸນນະພາບ, ສ້າງເງື່ອນໄຂໃຫ້ປະຊາຊົນທຸກຄົນໄດ້ຮັບການເບິ່ງແຍງດ້ານສຸຂະພາບ ໂດຍສະເພາະແມ່ ແລະ ເດັກນ້ອຍ, ປະຊາຊົນຜູ້ທຸກຍາກ ແລະ ຜູ້ຢູ່ເຂດຫ່າງໄກສອກຫຼີກ ເພື່ອໃຫ້ທຸກຄົນມີ ສຸຂະພາບດີ.
... (ມາດຕາ 25) (ປັບປຸງ)