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Education
- English
Education is an indeclinable function of the State. To plan it, to direct it and to organize it[,] corresponds to it.
... (Art. 119) - Spanish
La educación es función indeclinable del Estado. Corresponde a éste planificarla, dirigirla y organizarla.
... (Art. 119)
Education
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Second: Children have the right to upbringing, care and education from their parents.
… (Art. 29) - Arabic…
ثانياً :ـ للأولاد حقٌ على والديهم في التربية والرعاية والتعليم
(المادة 29) …
Education
- EnglishParents have the right and duty to maintain, educate, and raise their children. This right and duty may be revoked or restricted only for such reasons as are provided by law in order to protect the child's interests.
... (Art. 54) - SloveneStarši imajo pravico in dolžnost vzdrževati, izobraževati in vzgajati svoje otroke. Ta pravica in dolžnost se staršem lahko odvzame ali omeji samo iz razlogov, ki jih zaradi varovanja otrokovih koristi določa zakon.
... (54. Člen)
Education
- English(1) All persons shall have the right to education.
(2) Primary education shall be compulsory and the State shall provide reasonable facilities to render effective this right for every resident within Namibia, by establishing and maintaining State schools at which primary education will be provided free of charge.
(3) Children shall not be allowed to leave school until they have completed their primary education or have attained the age of sixteen (16) years, whichever is the sooner, save in so far as this may be authorised by Act of Parliament on grounds of health or other considerations pertaining to the public interest.
… (Art. 20)
Education
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It is the duty and right of parents to feed, to educate and to give security to their children.
… (Art. 6) - Spanish
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Es deber y derecho de los padres alimentar, educar y dar seguridad a sus hijos.
… (Art. 6)
Education
- EnglishIn conformity with the Law and with in the limits of public order and morals, education for Kuwaitis is a right guaranteed by the State. In compliance with the Law, education is compulsory and gratis in its first stages.
The Law shall lay down the necessary plans to eradicate illiteracy. ... (Art 40) - Arabicالتعليم حق للكويتيين ، تكفله الدولة وفقاً للقانون وفي حدود النظام العام والآداب ، والتعليم إلزامي مجاني في مراحله الأولى وفقاً للقانون.
ويضع القانون الخطة اللازمة للقضاء على الأمية. ... (المادّة 40)
Education
- English(1) An educational establishment maintained wholly or principally for students of one sex, race, or religious belief, or for students with a particular disability, or for students in a particular age group, or the authority responsible for the control of any such establishment, does not commit a breach of section 57 by refusing to admit students of a different sex, race, or religious belief, or students not having that disability or not being in that age group.
… (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 58)
Education
- English(1) Everyone has the right-
(a) to a basic education, including adult basic education; and
(b) to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.
(2) Everyone has the right to receive education in the official language or languages of their choice in public educational institutions where that education is reasonably practicable. In order to ensure the effective access to, and implementation of, this right, the state must consider all reasonable educational alternatives, including single medium institutions, taking into account-
(a) equity;
(b) practicability; and
(c) the need to redress the results of past racially discriminatory laws and practices. (Sec. 29)
Education
- English… The father and mother have the shared and inescapable obligation of raising, training, educating, maintaining and caring for their children, and the latter have the duty to provide care when the former are unable to do so by themselves. … (Art. 76)
- Spanish… El padre y la madre tienen el deber compartido e irrenunciable de criar, formar, educar, mantener y asistir a sus hijos e hijas, y éstos tienen el deber de asistirlos cuando aquél o aquella no puedan hacerlo por sí mismos. … (Art. 76)
Education
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(5) Women shall have the right to obtain special opportunity in education, … on the basis of positive discrimination.
… (Art. 38) - Nepali
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(५) महिलालाई शिक्षा, … मा सकारात्मक विभेदका आधारमा विशेष अवसर प्राप्त गर्ने हक हुनेछ ।
… (धारा ३८)