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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) The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed.
(2) In this Act, “aboriginal peoples of Canada” includes the Indian, Inuit and Métis peoples of Canada.
(3) For greater certainty, in subsection (1) “treaty rights” includes rights that now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the aboriginal and treaty rights referred to in subsection (1) are guaranteed equally to male and female persons. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 35) - French(1) Les droits existants — ancestraux ou issus de traités — des peuples autochtones du Canada sont reconnus et confirmés.
(2) Dans la présente loi, “peuples autochtones du Canada” s’entend notamment des Indiens, des Inuit et des Métis du Canada.
(3) Il est entendu que sont compris parmi les droits issus de traités, dont il est fait mention au paragraphe (1), les droits existants issus d’accords sur des revendications territoriales ou ceux susceptibles d’être ainsi acquis.
(4) Indépendamment de toute autre disposition de la présente loi, les droits — ancestraux ou issus de traités — visés au paragraphe (1) sont garantis également aux personnes des deux sexes. (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 35)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe form of the indigenous territorial entities will be made subject to what the Organic Law of Territorial Ordering provides, and their delimitation will be made by the National Government, with the participation of the representatives of the indigenous communities, after the opinion of the Commission of Territorial Ordering.The reservations [resguardos] are collective property and non-alienable.
The law will define the relations and coordination of these entities with those of which they form a part.
… (Art. 329) - SpanishLa conformación de las entidades territoriales indígenas se hará con sujeción a lo dispuesto en la Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial, y su delimitación se hará por el Gobierno Nacional, con participación de los representantes de las comunidades indígenas, previo concepto de la Comisión de Ordenamiento Territorial. Los resguardos son de propiedad colectiva y no enajenable.
La ley definirá las relaciones y la coordinación de estas entidades con aquellas de las cuales formen parte.
… (Art. 329)
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
- EnglishThrough special programs and adequate legislation, the State will provide state lands to the indigenous communities who may need them for their development. (Art. 68)
- SpanishMediante programas especiales y legislación adecuada, el Estado proveerá de tierras estatales a las comunidades indígenas que las necesiten para su desarrollo. (Art. 68)
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 Agrarian Reform will eliminate the idle latifundios [large estates] and will be made by priority with lands of the State. When the expropriation of idle latifundios affects private owners [proprietarios], it will be fulfilled within that stipulated in Article 44 of this Constitution. The Agrarian Reform shall eliminate any form of exploitation of the peasants, and of the indigenous communities of the country and shall promote forms of ownership compatible with the economic and social objectives of the Nation, established in this Constitution. The regime of ownership of the indigenous communities will be regulated in accordance with the law on the matter. (Art. 107)
- Spanish
La Reforma agraria eliminará el latifundio ocioso y se hará prioritariamente con tierras del Estado. Cuando la expropiación de latifundios ociosos afecte a propietarios privados se hará cumpliendo con lo estipulado en el artículo 44 de esta Constitución. La Reforma Agraria eliminará cualquier forma de explotación a los campesinos, a las comunidades indígenas del país y promoverá las formas de propiedad compatibles con los objetivos económicos y sociales de la nación, establecidos en esta Constitución. El régimen de propiedad de las tierras de las comunidades indígenas se regulará de acuerdo a la ley de la materia. (Art. 107)