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– Family is the cornerstone of society, and its pillars are religion, morals, and patriotism. The state shall endeavour to maintain its cohesion, stability, and the consolidation of its values. The state shall guarantee equality between women and men, and shall be committed to providing care for children, persons with disabilities, youth, and young persons in the manner prescribed by the law.
– The state shall guarantee social security services for citizens. It shall also guarantee aid for them in cases of emergency, illness, incapacity, and old age in the manner prescribed by the law.
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– The state shall guarantee healthcare for citizens and shall endeavour to provide means for the prevention and treatment of diseases and epidemics.
... (Art. 15) - Arabic
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– الأسرة أساس المجتمع، قوامها الدين والأخلاق والوطنية، وتعمل الدولة على تماسكها واستقرارها وترسيخ قيمها، وتكفل الدولة تحقيق المساواة بين المرأة والرجل، وتلتزم برعاية الطفل، والأشخاص ذوي الإعاقة، والشباب، والنشء، وذلك على النحو الذي يبينه القانون.
– تكفل الدولة للمواطنين خدمات التأمين الاجتماعي، كما تكفل لهم المعونة في حالات الطوارئ، والمرض، والعجز، والشيخوخة، وذلك على النحو الذي يبينه القانون.
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– تكفل الدولة الرعاية الصحية للمواطنين، وتعمل على توفير وسائل الوقاية والعلاج من الأمراض والأوبئة،
... (المادّة ١٥)
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- English(1) The State shall be empowered to plan general economic activity by an act in order to meet collective needs, to balance and harmonize regional and sectorial development and to stimulate the growth of income and wealth and their more equitable distribution.
… (Sec. 131) - Spanish1. El Estado, mediante ley, podrá planificar la actividad económica general para atender a las necesidades colectivas, equilibrar y armonizar el desarrollo regional y sectorial y estimular el crecimiento de la renta y de la riqueza y su más justa distribución.
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- EnglishThe State must take all practical measures, within the limits of the resources available to it, to provide social security and social care to those who are in need. (Sec. 30)
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- EnglishThe veterans of the War of the Chaco [guerra del Chaco] and those of other armed international conflicts that are waged in the defense of the Fatherland [Patria], will enjoy honors and privileges; pensions that allow them to live decorously; preferential assistance, gratuitous and complete for their health, as well as other benefits, according to what the law determines.
Their widows and minor or handicapped children, including those [of] veterans who were dead prior to the promulgation of this Constitution[,] will succeed to the economic benefits.
… (Art. 130) - SpanishLos veteranos de la guerra del Chaco, y los de otros conflictos armados internacionales que se libren en defensa de la Patria, gozarán de honores y privilegios; de pensiones que les permitan vivir decorosamente; de asistencia preferencial, gratuita y completa a su salud, así como de otros beneficios, conforme con lo que determine la ley.
En los beneficios económicos les sucederán sus viudas e hijos menores o discapacitados, incluidos los de los veteranos fallecidos con anterioridad a la promulgación de esta Constitución.
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- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the right of its citizens and their families in an emergency of in case of disease, disability and old age. Likewise it shall support the social security system and encourage individuals and institutions to contribute to charitable pursuits. (Basic Law, Art. 27)
- Arabicتكفل الدّولة حق المواطن وأسرته في حالة الطوارئ والمرض والعجز والشيخوخة وتدعم نظام الضّمان الاجتماعي وتشجع المؤسسات والأفراد على الإسهام في الأعمال الخيرية. (النظام الأساسي، المادة 27)
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- English1. The power to grant any award under any pensions law in force in Kiribati (other than an award to which, under that law, the person to whom it is payable is entitled as of right) and, in accordance with any provisions in that behalf in any such law, to withhold, reduces in amount or suspends any award payable under any such law shall vest in the Beretitenti, acting in accordance with the advice of the Public Service Commission.
2. In this section, “pensions law” means any law relating to the grant to any person, or to the widow, children, dependents or personal representatives of that person, of an award in respect of the services of that person in a public office. (Sec. 105)
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- EnglishThe following are essential purposes and functions of the State, in addition to those established in the Constitution and the law:
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2. To guarantee the welfare, development, security and protection, and equal dignity of individuals, nations, peoples, and communities, …
5. To guarantee access of all people to education, health and work.
… (Art. 9) - SpanishSon fines y funciones esenciales del Estado, además de los que establece la Constitución y la ley:
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2. Garantizar el bienestar, el desarrollo, la seguridad y la protección e igual dignidad de las personas, las naciones, los pueblos y las comunidades, ...
5. Garantizar el acceso de las personas a la educación, a la salud y al trabajo.
… (Art. 9)
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- EnglishWhereas the People of Trinidad and Tobago—
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(b) respect the principles of social justice and therefore believe that the operation of the economic system should result in the material resources of the community being so distributed as to subserve the common good, that there should be adequate means of livelihood for all, that labour should not be exploited or forced by economic necessity to operate in inhumane conditions but that there should be opportunity for advancement on the basis of recognition of merit, ability and integrity;
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- English1. Every citizen is entitled to social assistance and security in accordance with the law.
2. The State shall promote, in accordance with its national resources, the establishment of a social security system.
… (Sec. 56) - Tetum1. Sidadaun hotu-hotu iha direitu ba seguransa no asisténsia sosiál, tuir lei haruka.
2. Estadu hola medida sira tuir nia kbiit nasionál nian, hodi halo organizasaun ho nia sistema ida ba seguransa sosiál.
… (Art. 56) - Portuguese1. Todos os cidadãos têm direito à segurança e à assistência social, nos termos da lei.
2. O Estado promove, na medida das disponibilidades nacionais, a organização de um sistema de segurança social.
… (Art. 56)
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The family benefits from the protection of the State.
… (Art. 71) - Arabic
تحظى الأسرة بحماية الدولة
… (المادة 71) - French
La famille bénéficie de la protection de l'Etat.
… (Art. 71)