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- English(1) Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman established by voluntary decision, and the family as the basis of the survival of the nation.
… (Foundation, Art. L) - Hungarian(1) Magyarország védi a házasság intézményét mint férfi és nő között, önkéntes elhatározás alapján létrejött életközösséget, valamint a családot mint a nemzet fennmaradásának alapját.
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(3) The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and is entitled to protection by the State.
(4) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance by society and the State.
(5) Society and the State have the duty to preserve and sustain the harmonious development, cohesion and respect for the family and family values.
(6) Subject to the availability of resources, the Government shall provide facilities and opportunities necessary to enhance the welfare of the needy and the elderly. (Sec. 27)
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- EnglishThe law shall provide that juvenile delinquency shall be dealt with under a special system in which women will be allowed to participate. (Art. 43)
- SpanishLa ley procurará que la delincuencia infantil esté sometida a un régimen especial en que se dará participación a la mujer. (Art. 43)
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8) The State, according to its possibilities, guarantees to all, notably to the child, to the mother, to the handicapped, to the aged workers and to the elderly, the protection of health, social security, a preserved natural environment, rest and leisure;
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14) The family is the basic natural unit [cellule] of society[;] marriage, [the] union between two persons of different sex, is the legitimate support of it. They are placed under the particular protection of the State;
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16) The support to be given to children and their education constitute for parents a natural right and a duty which they exercise under the surveillance and with the aid of the State and of the public collectivities.
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8°) L’Etat, selon ses possibilités, garantit à tous, notamment à l’enfant, à la mère, aux handicapés, aux vieux travailleurs et aux personnes âgées, la protection de la santé, la sécurité sociale, un environnement naturel préservé, le repos et les loisirs;
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14°) La famille est la cellule de base naturelle de la société, le mariage, union entre deux personnes de sexe différent, en est le support légitime. Ils sont placés sous la protection particulière de l'Etat.
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16°) Les soins à donner aux enfants et leur éducation constituent pour les parents, un droit naturel et un devoir qu’ils exercent sous la surveillance et avec l’aide de l’Etat et des collectivités publiques.
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(3) The State shall promote just and reasonable access by all citizens to public facilities and services in accordance with law.
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- EnglishThe administrative function is at the service of the general interests and is developed on the foundation of the principles of equality, morality, efficiency, economy, swiftness, impartiality, and publicity through the decentralization, the delegation, and the deconcentration of functions.
The administrative authorities must coordinate their actions for the appropriate fulfillment of the objectives of the State. The public administration, in all its orders, shall have an internal control that shall be exercised within the terms that the law specifies. (Art. 209) - SpanishLa función administrativa está al servicio de los intereses generales y se desarrolla con fundamento en los principios de igualdad, moralidad, eficacia, economía, celeridad, imparcialidad y publicidad, mediante la descentralización, la delegación y la desconcentración de funciones.
Las autoridades administrativas deben coordinar sus actuaciones para el adecuado cumplimiento de los fines del Estado. La administración pública, en todos sus órdenes, tendrá un control interno que se ejercerá en los términos que señale la ley. (Art. 209)
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- EnglishNotwithstanding anything in this Constitution,—
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(g) the Governor of Sikkim shall have special responsibility for peace and for an equitable arrangement for ensuring the social and economic advancement of different sections of the population of Sikkim and in the discharge of his special responsibility under this clause, the Governor of Sikkim shall, subject to such directions as the President may, from time to time, deem fit to issue, act in his discretion;
… (Art. 371F) - Hindiइस संविधान में किसी बात के होते हुए भी,—
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(छ) सिक्किम के राज्यपाल का, शांति के लिए और सिक्किम की जनता के विभिन्न अनुभागों की सामाजिक और आर्थिक उन्नति सुनिश्चित करने के लिए साम्यापूर्ण व्यवस्था करने के लिए विशेष उत्तरदायित्व होगा और इस खंड के अधीन अपने विशेष उत्तरदायित्व का निर्वहन करने में सिक्किम का राज्यपाल ऐसे निदेशों के अधीन रहते हुए जो राष्ट्रपति समय-समय पर देना ठीक समझे, अपने विवेक से कार्य करेगा;
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The state shall provide material security to the person that is unable to work and has no funds for life. (Art. 67) - Montenegrin…
Država obezbjeđuje materijalnu sigurnost licu koje je nesposobno za rad i nema sredstva za život. (Član 67)
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7. The State shall endeavour to develop and execute policies to minimize inequalities of income, concentration of wealth, and promote equitable distribution of public facilities among individuals and people living in different parts of the Kingdom.
8. The State shall endeavour to ensure that all the Dzongkhags are treated with equity on the basis of different needs so that the allocation of national resources results in comparable socioeconomic development.
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21. The State shall provide free access to basic public health services in both modern and traditional medicines.
22. The State shall endeavour to provide security in the event of sickness and disability or lack of adequate means of livelihood for reasons beyond one’s control.
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༧) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དོ་ཟླ་མི་མཉམ་པའི་འོང་འབབ་དང་ རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཅིག་དབང་གང་ཉུང་བཟོ་ནིའི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་ཚུ་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏང་སྟེ་བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་དང་ ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་དང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་ སོ་སོར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གི་བར་ན་ དམངས་ཀྱི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༨) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཐོན་ཁུངས་བགོ་སྐལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དོ་ཟླ་མཉམ་པའི་མི་སྡེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་ལུ་ དགོས་ མཁོ་ སོ་སོར་གཞི་བཞག་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་སྐྱོང་གཞག་ངེས་པར་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོདན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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༢༡) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དེང་རབས་དང་ སྔར་སྲོལ་གསོ་དཔྱད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ མི་དམངས་གསོ་བའི་ གཞིས་གནས་ཞབས་ ཏོག་ཚུ་ སྟོང་པར་ཐོབ་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་དགོ།
༢༢) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ནད་གཞི་དང་ དབང་པོ་ལུ་ཐོ་ཕོག་པ་ ཡང་ན་ ཐབས་མེད་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུ་ ཐུག་སྟེ་འཚོ་རྟེན་ ལྡང་ངེས་མེད་པའི་སྐབས་ བདེ་སྲུང་བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
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- EnglishThe State shall guarantee equal opportunity for every citizen and shall provide an appropriate standard of living. The State shall also guarantee the right of work, education, medical care, social security, and the right of intellectual and private property. The State shall further guarantee the fair distribution of national wealth among citizens, and among the different cities and districts thereof. (Art. 8)
- Arabicتضمن الدّولة تكافؤ الفرص، وتعمل على توفير المستوي المعيشي اللّائق وحقّ العمل والتعليم والرّعاية الصحية والضمان الاجتماعي لكل مواطن، كما تكفل حقّ الملكية الفردية والخاصّة، وتضمن الدولة عدالة توزيع الثروة الوطنية بين المواطنين وبين مختلف مدن ومناطق الدولة. (المادّة 8)