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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)
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3. Every Ethiopian national has the right to equal access to publicly funded social services.
4. The State has the obligation to allocate ever increasing resources to provide to the public health, education and other social services.
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3. የኢትዮጵያ ዜጐች ሁሉ በመንግሥት ገንዘብ በሚካሄዱ ማኅበራዊ አገልግሎቶች በእኩልነት የመጠቀም መብት አላቸው፡፡
4. መንግሥት የጤና፣ የትምህርትና ሌሎች የማኅበራዊ አገልግሎቶችን ለሕዝብ ለማቅረብ በየጊዜው እየጨመረ የሚሄድ ሀብት ይመድባል፡፡
… (አንቀጽ 41)
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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.
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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)
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For the purposes of financial restoration of the Federal Treasury and economic stabilization, the Emergency Social Fund shall be instituted in fiscal years 1994 and 1995, as well as in the periods from January 1, 1996 to June 30, 1997 and July 1, 1997 to December 31, 1999. Its resources shall be applied by giving priority to funding actions of the systems of health and education (including complementing the resources dealt with in § 3 of art. 60 of the Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act), social security benefits and continued assistance benefits, including liquidation of the social security deficit, and the budgetary expenses associated with programs of relevant economic and social interest.
… (Transitional Constitutional Provisions Act 1988, Art. 71) - Portuguese
É instituído, nos exercícios financeiros de 1994 e 1995, bem assim nos períodos de 01/01/1996 a 30/06/97 e 01/07/97 a 31/12/1999, o Fundo Social de Emergência, com o objetivo de saneamento financeiro da Fazenda Pública Federal e de estabilização econômica, cujos recursos serão aplicados prioritariamente no custeio das ações dos sistemas de saúde e educação, incluindo a complementação de recursos de que trata o § 3º do art. 60 do Ato das Disposições Constitucionais Transitórias, benefícios previdenciários e auxílios assistenciais de prestação continuada, inclusive liquidação de passivo previdenciário, e despesas orçamentárias associadas a programas de relevante interesse econômico e social.
... (Ato das Disposições Constitucionais Transitórias 1988, Art. 71)
Public Institutions and Services
- 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)
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- English1. The Russian Federation shall be a social state whose policy is aimed at creating conditions ensuring a worthy life and a free development of Man.
2. In the Russian Federation the labour and health of people shall be protected, a guaranteed minimum wage shall be established, State support shall be provided for the family, maternity, fatherhood and childhood, to the disabled and to elderly citizens, the system of social services shall be developed and State pensions, allowances and other social security guarantees shall be established. (Art. 7) - Russian1. Российская Федерация - социальное государство, политика которого направлена на создание условий, обеспечивающих достойную жизнь и свободное развитие человека.
2. В Российской Федерации охраняются труд и здоровье людей, устанавливается гарантированный минимальный размер оплаты труда, обеспечивается государственная поддержка семьи, материнства, отцовства и детства, инвалидов и пожилых граждан, развивается система социальных служб, устанавливаются государственные пенсии, пособия и иные гарантии социальной защиты. (Статья 7)
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- English(1) The family is the natural and fundamental unit of society and the necessary basis of social order, and shall enjoy the recognition and protection of the State.
... (Art. 45) - Swahili(1) Familia ni kiungo cha asili na cha msingi cha jamii na msingi muhimu wa maadili ya kijamii, na itanufaika na kutambuliwa na kulindwa na Serikali.
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(3) The economic objective of the State shall be to attain a sustainable economic development, while achieving rapid economic growth, by way of maximum mobilization of the available means and resources through participation and development of public, private and cooperatives; and to develop a socialism-oriented independent and prosperous economy while making the national economy independent, self-reliant and progressive in order to build an exploitation-free society by abolishing economic inequality through equitable distribution of the achievements made.
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(३) सार्वजनिक, निजी र सहकारी क्षेत्रको सहभागिता तथा विकास मार्फत उपलब्ध साधन र स्रोतको अधिकतम परिचालनद्वारा तीव्र आर्थिक वृद्धि हासिल गर्दै दिगो आर्थिक विकास गर्ने तथा प्राप्त उपलब्धिहरूको न्यायोचित वितरण गरी आर्थिक असमानताको अन्त्य गर्दै शोषण रहित समाजको निर्माण गर्न राष्ट्रिय अर्थतन्त्रलाई आत्मनिर्भर, स्वतन्त्र तथा उन्नतिशील बनाउँदै समाजवाद उन्मुख स्वतन्त्र र समृद्ध अर्थतन्त्रको विकास गर्ने राज्यको आर्थिक उद्देश्य हुनेछ ।
... (धारा ५०)
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The State organizes institutions and services that facilitate the ability of working families to carry out their responsibilities. (Art. 64) - Spanish…
El Estado organiza instituciones y servicios que faciliten a las familias trabajadoras el desempeño de sus responsabilidades. (Art. 64)
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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།
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