SEARCH DATABASE
The Global Gender Equality Constitutional Database is a repository of gender equality related provisions in 194 constitutions from around the world. The Database was updated in partnership with the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and with support from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Government of Japan. Experience its wealth and depth of information by starting your search now.
ABOUT 674 RESULTS
Marriage and Family Life
India
- EnglishIt shall be the duty of every citizen of India—
…
(k) who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child or, as the case may be, ward between the age of six and fourteen years. (Art. 51A) - Hindiभारत के प्रत्येक नागरिक का यह कर्तव्य होगा कि वह—
…
(ट) यदि माता-पिता या संरक्षक है, छह वर्ष से चौदह वर्ष तक की आयु वाले अपने, यथास्थिति, बालक या प्रतिपाल्य के लिए शिक्षा के अवसर प्रदान करे। (अनुच्छेद 51क)
Marriage and Family Life
Lithuania
- English…
The law and court shall protect everyone from arbitrary or unlawful interference with his private and family life, as well as from encroachment upon his honour and dignity. (Art. 22) - Lithuanian…
Įstatymas ir teismas saugo, kad niekas nepatirtų savavališko ar neteisėto kišimosi į jo asmeninį ir šeimyninį gyvenimą, kėsinimosi į jo garbę ir orumą. (22 straipsnis)
Marriage and Family Life
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- EnglishEvery person has the right to adequate, safe and comfortable, hygienic housing, with appropriate essential basic services, including a habitat such as to humanize family, neighborhood and community relations. The progressive meeting of this requirement is the shared responsibility of citizens and the State in all areas.
The State shall give priority to families, and shall guarantee them, especially those with meager resources, the possibility of access to social policies and credit for the construction, purchase or enlargement of dwellings. (Art. 82) - SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a una vivienda adecuada, segura, cómoda, higiénica, con servicios básicos esenciales que incluyan un hábitat que humanice las relaciones familiares, vecinales y comunitarias. La satisfacción progresiva de este derecho es obligación compartida entre los ciudadanos y ciudadanas y el Estado en todos sus ámbitos.
El Estado dará prioridad a las familias y garantizará los medios para que éstas y especialmente las de escasos recursos, puedan acceder a las políticas sociales y al crédito para la construcción, adquisición o ampliación de viviendas. (Art. 82)
Marriage and Family Life
Nigeria
- English…
(3) For the purpose of promoting national integration, it shall be the duty of the State to:
…
(c) encourage inter-marriage among persons from different places of origin, or of different religious, ethnic or linguistic association or ties;
… (Sec. 15)
Marriage and Family Life
El Salvador
- EnglishEvery minor has the right to live in family and environmental conditions that allow for his integral development, for which [he] will have the protection of the State.
The law will determine the duties of the State and will create the institutions for the protection of the maternity and the infancy. (Art. 34) - SpanishTodo menor tiene derecho a vivir en condiciones familiares y ambientales que le permitan su desarrollo integral, para lo cual tendrá la protección del Estado.
La ley determinará los deberes del Estado y creará las instituciones para la protección de la maternidad y de la infancia. (Art. 34)
Marriage and Family Life
Kazakhstan
- English1. Marriage and family, motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood shall be under the protection of the state.
2. Care and upbringing of children shall be a natural right and responsibility of parents.
3. Adult, able-bodied children must take care of their disabled parents. (Art. 27) - Kazak1. Неке мен отбасы, ана мен әке және бала мемлекеттiң қорғауында болады.
2. Балаларына қамқорлық жасау және оларды тәрбиелеу - ата-ананың етене құқығы әрi мiндетi.
3. Кәмелетке толған еңбекке қабiлеттi балалар еңбекке жарамсыз ата-анасына қамқорлық жасауға мiндеттi. (27-бап)
Marriage and Family Life
Montenegro
- EnglishMarriage may be entered into only on the basis of a free consent of a woman and a man. Marriage shall be based on equality of spouses. (Art. 71)
- MontenegrinBrak se može zaključiti samo uz slobodan pristanak žene i muškarca.
Brak se zasniva na ravnopravnosti supružnika. (Član 71)
Marriage and Family Life
Bahrain
- Englisha. The family is the basis of society, deriving its strength from religion, morality and love of the homeland. The law preserves its lawful entity, strengthens its bonds and values, under its aegis extends protection to mothers and children, tends the young and protects them from exploitation and safeguards them against moral, bodily and spiritual neglect. The State cares in particular for the physical, moral and intellectual development of the young.
b. The State guarantees reconciling the duties of women towards the family with their work in society, and their equality with men in political, social, cultural, and economic spheres without breaching the provisions of Islamic canon law (Shari’a).
c. The State guarantees the requisite social security for its citizens in old age, sickness, disability, orphanhood, widowhood or unemployment, and also provides them with social insurance and healthcare services. It strives to safeguard them against ignorance, fear and poverty.
d. Inheritance is a guaranteed right governed by the Islamic Shari’a. (Art. 5) - Arabicأ - الأسرة أساس المجتمع، قوامها الدين والأخلاق وحب الوطن، يحفظ القانون كيانـها الشرعي، ويقوي أواصرها وقيمها، ويحمي في ظلها الأمومة والطفولة، ويرعى النشء، ويحميه من الاستغلال، ويقيه الإهمال الأدبي والجسماني والروحي. كما تـُعنى الدولة خاصة بنمو الشباب البدني والخلقي والعقلي.
ب - تكفل الدولة التوفيق بين واجبات المرأة نحو الأسرة وعملها في المجتمع، ومساواتها بالرجال في ميادين الحياة السياسية والاجتماعية والثـقافية والاقـتصادية دون إخلال بأحكام الشريعة الإسلامية.
ج - تكفل الدولة تحقيق الضمان الاجتماعي اللازم للمواطنين في حالة الشيخوخة أو المرض أو العجز عن العمل أو اليتم أو الترمل أو البطالة، كما تؤمّن لهم خدمات التأمين الاجتماعي والرعاية الصحية، وتعمل على وقايتهم من براثن الجهل والخوف والفاقة.
د - الميراث حق مكفول تحكمه الشريعة الإسلامي. (المادّة 5)
Marriage and Family Life
Senegal
- English
The woman has the right of having her own patrimony [,] as [does] her husband. She has the right to the personal management of her assets. (Art. 19)
- French
La femme a le droit d’avoir son patrimoine propre comme le mari. Elle a le droit de gestion personnelle de ses biens. (Art. 19)
Marriage and Family Life
Guatemala
- EnglishThe minimum social rights that form the basis of the labor legislation and the activity of the tribunals and [the] authorities [are]:
…
k. The protection of the working woman and [the] regulation of the conditions under which she must render her services.
There may not be differences established between married and single women in terms of [the] work. The law will regulate the protection of the maternity rights of the working woman, who may not be required to [conduct any] work that may require an effort that puts her pregnancy in jeopardy [gravidez]. The working mother will enjoy a compulsory rest [period] [descanso forzoso] paid on the basis of one hundred percent of her salary, during the thirty days prior to giving birth and [during] the subsequent forty-five days. During the period of lactation she will have the right to two periods of extraordinary rest, during her workday. The prenatal and postnatal rest periods will be expanded according to her physical conditions, by medical prescription;
… (Art. 102) - SpanishSon derechos sociales mínimos que fundamentan la legislación del trabajo y la actividad de los tribunales y autoridades:
…
k. Protección a la mujer trabajadora y regulación de las condiciones en que debe prestar sus servicios.
No deben establecerse diferencias entre casadas y solteras en materia de trabajo. La ley regulará la protección a la maternidad de la mujer trabajadora, a quien no se le debe exigir ningún trabajo que requiera esfuerzo que ponga en peligro su gravidez. La madre trabajadora gozará de un descanso forzoso retribuido con el cinto por ciento de su salario, durante los treinta días que precedan al parto y los cuarenta y cinco días siguientes. En la época de la lactancia tendrá derecho a dos períodos de descanso extraordinarios, dentro de la jornada. Los descansos pre y postnatal serán ampliados según sus condiciones físicas, por prescripción médica;
… (Art. 102)