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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the fundamental nucleus of society. It is constituted by natural or juridical ties, through the free decision of a man and woman to contract matrimony or through the responsible will to conform to it.
The State and the society guarantee the complete protection of the family. The law may determine the family patrimony [to be] inalienable and unseizable.
The honor, dignity, and intimacy of the family are inviolable.
Family relations are based on the equality of rights and duties of the couple and on the reciprocal respect among all its members.
Any form of violence in the family is considered destructive of its harmony and unity, and will be sanctioned according to the law.
The children born in matrimony or outside it, adopted or conceived naturally or with scientific assistance, have equal rights and duties.
The law will regulate responsible progeniture.
The couple has the right to decide freely and responsibly the number of their children and must support them and educate them while they are minors or disabled.
The forms of matrimony, the age and capacity to contract it, the duties and rights of the spouses, their separation and the dissolution of the tie are determined by the civil law.
Religious marriages will have civil effects in the terms established by the law.
The civil effects of all marriages may cease by divorce in accordance with the civil law.
Sentences of annulment of religious marriages issued by the authorities of the respective religion, will also have civil effects within the limits established by the law.
The law will determine [that] relative to the civil status of persons and the consequent rights and duties. (Art. 42) - SpanishLa familia es el núcleo fundamental de la sociedad. Se constituye por vínculos naturales o jurídicos, por la decisión libre de un hombre y una mujer de contraer matrimonio o por la voluntad responsable de conformarla.
El Estado y la sociedad garantizan la protección integral de la familia. La ley podrá determinar el patrimonio familiar inalienable e inembargable.
La honra, la dignidad y la intimidad de la familia son inviolables.
Las relaciones familiares se basan en la igualdad de derechos y deberes de la pareja y en el respeto recíproco entre todos sus integrantes.
Cualquier forma de violencia en la familia se considera destructiva de su armonía y unidad, y será sancionada conforme a la ley.
Los hijos habidos en el matrimonio o fuera de él, adoptados o procreados naturalmente o con asistencia científica, tienen iguales derechos y deberes. La ley reglamentará la progenitura responsable.
La pareja tiene derecho a decidir libre y responsablemente el número de sus hijos, y deberá sostenerlos y educarlos mientras sean menores o impedidos.
Las formas del matrimonio, la edad y capacidad para contraerlo, los deberes y derechos de los cónyuges, su separación y la disolución del vínculo, se rigen por la ley civil.
Los matrimonios religiosos tendrán efectos civiles en los términos que establezca la ley.
Los efectos civiles de todo matrimonio cesarán por divorcio con arreglo a la ley civil.
También tendrán efectos civiles las sentencias de nulidad de los matrimonios religiosos dictadas por las autoridades de la respectiva religión, en los términos que establezca la ley.
La ley determinará lo relativo al estado civil de las personas y los consiguientes derechos y deberes. (Art. 42)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State should strengthen the family unit which is an important basic element of society, provide an appropriate accommodation, promote and develop the enhancement of health in order to enable people to have good health and strong mind, as well as promote and develop excellence in sports and to maximise the benefit for the people. ...
The State should provide assistance to children, youth, women, the elderly, persons with disabilities, indigent persons and underprivileged persons to be able to have a quality living, and shall protect such persons from violence or unfair treatment, as well as provide treatment, rehabilitation and remedies to such injured persons. ... (Sec. 71) - Thaiรัฐพึงเสริมสร้างความเข้มแข็งของครอบครัวอันเป็นองค์ประกอบพื้นฐานที่สําคัญของสังคม จัดให้ประชาชนมีที่อยู่อาศัยอย่างเหมาะสม ส่งเสริมและพัฒนาการสร้างเสริมสุขภาพเพื่อให้ ประชาชนมีสุขภาพที่แข็งแรงและมีจิตใจเข้มแข็ง ตลอดจนส่งเสริมและพัฒนาการกีฬาให้ก้าวไปสู่ความเป็นเลิศและเกิดประโยชน์สูงสุดแก่ประชาชน ...
รัฐพึงให้ความช่วยเหลือเด็ก เยาวชน สตรี ผู้สูงอายุ คนพิการ ผู้ยากไร้ และผู้ด้อยโอกาส ให้สามารถดํารงชีวิตได้อย่างมีคุณภาพ และคุ้มครองป้องกันมิให้บุคคลดังกล่าวถูกใช้ความรุนแรงหรือปฏิบัติอย่างไม่เป็นธรรม ตลอดจนให้การบําบัด ฟื้นฟูและเยียวยาผู้ถูกกระทําการดังกล่าว ... (มาตรา ๗๑)
Marriage and Family Life
- English… Equality of the rights of women and men is ensured:
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by creating conditions that allow women to combine work and motherhood; by legal protection, material and moral support of motherhood and childhood, including the provision of paid leave and other privileges to pregnant women and mothers. (Art. 24) - Ukrainian… Рівність прав жінки і чоловіка забезпечується:
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створенням умов, які дають жінкам можливість поєднувати працю з материнством; правовим захистом, матеріальною і моральною підтримкою материнства і дитинства, включаючи надання оплачуваних відпусток та інших пільг вагітним жінкам і матерям. (Стаття 24)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishIt is hereby recognised and declared that in Trinidad and Tobago there have existed and shall continue to exist, without discrimination by reason of race, origin, colour, religion or sex, the following fundamental human rights and freedoms, namely–
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(c) the right of the individual to respect for his private and family life;
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(f) the right of a parent or guardian to provide a school of his own choice for the education of his child or ward;
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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. All children, regardless of the circumstances of their birth, are entitled to equal treatment before the law, and the best interests and welfare of children shall be a primary consideration in all decisions affecting them.
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3. Children have the right to know, and to be raised by, their parents.
4. All children shall be entitled to reasonable maintenance from their parents, whether such parents are married, unmarried or divorced, and from their guardians; and, in addition, all children, and particularly orphans, children with disabilities and other children in situations of disadvantage shall be entitled to live in safety and security and, where appropriate, to State assistance.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (7) of this section, no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
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(3) In this section, the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by sex, race, place of origin, political opinions, colour or creed whereby persons of one such description are subject to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.
(4) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any law far as that law makes provision-
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(c) for the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in subsection (3) of this section (or of persons connected with such persons) of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters which is the personal law of persons of that description;
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Marriage and Family Life
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The State shall create conditions for the development of pre-school education and upbringing.
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Pre-school education and upbringing … shall be under state supervision.
… (Art. 50) - Uzbek
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Davlat maktabgacha ta’lim va tarbiyani rivojlantirish uchun shart-sharoitlar yaratadi.
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Maktabgacha ta’lim va tarbiya, ... davlat nazoratidadir.
... (50-modda)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
(1) Anything done or omitted which would otherwise constitute a breach of any of the provisions of this Part9 shall not constitute such a breach if—
(a) it is done or omitted in good faith for the purpose of assisting or advancing persons or groups of persons, being in each case persons against whom discrimination is unlawful by virtue of this Part; and
(b) those persons or groups need or may reasonably be supposed to need assistance or advancement in order to achieve an equal place with other members of the community.
(2) Nothing in this Part—
(a) limits the power of the Crown to establish or arrange work or training schemes or employment assistance measures, eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status; or
(b) makes it unlawful for any person to recruit or refer any other person who is of a particular age or of a particular employment status or of a particular family status for any work or training scheme or employment assistance measure that is established or arranged by the Crown, the eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 73)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishFamily, being the natural and fundamental cell of society and the basis for the preservation and reproduction of the population, as well as motherhood and childhood shall be under special protection and aegis of the state. (Art. 16)
- ArmenianԸնտանիքը, որպես հասարակության բնական և հիմնական բջիջ, բնակչության պահպանման և վերարտադրման հիմք, ինչպես նաև մայրությունը և մանկությունը պետության հատուկ պաշտպանության և հովանավորության ներքո են: (Հոդված 16)
Marriage and Family Life
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(f) No persons shall be compelled to give testimony against themselves or their spouses, who shall include partners in a marriage by customary law, and no Court shall admit in evidence against such persons testimony which has been obtained from such persons in violation of Article 8(2)(b) hereof.
... (Art. 12)