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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English(1) Every person shall have the right of recognition, guarantees, protection and certainty before a just law, and of equal treatment before the law.
… (Art. 28D) - Indonesian(1) Setiap orang berhak atas pengakuan, jaminan, perlindungan, dan kepastian hukum yang adil serta perlakuan yang sama di hadapan hukum.
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English1. All citizens shall be equal before the law, and there shall be no discrimination in political, economic, social or cultural life on account of sex, religion or social status.
2. No privileged caste shall be recognized or ever established in any form.
… (Art. 11) - Korean① 모든 국민은 법 앞에 평등하다. 누구든지 성별·종교 또는 사회적 신분에 의하여 정치적·경제적·사회적·문화적 생활의 모든 영역에 있어서 차별을 받지 아니한다.
②사회적 특수계급의 제도는 인정되지 아니하며, 어떠한 형태로도 이를 창설할 수 없다.
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishEvery individual is equal before and under the law, and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law. (Art. 20)
- Dhivehiޤާނޫނުގެ ކުރިމަތީގައި، އަދި އެ މީހެއްގެ މައްޗައް ޤާނޫނު ހިންގުމުގައި ކޮންމެ މީހަކީ ވެސް ހަމަހަމަވެގެންވާ މީހެކެވެ. އަދި ޤާނޫނުގެ ރައްކާތެރިކަމާއި، ޤާނޫނުން ލިބިދޭ މަންފާތައް ހަމަހަމަކަމާއެކު ލިބުމަކީ ހަމަ ކޮންމެ މީހެއްގެ ވެސް ޙައްޤެކެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 20 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
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– Justice, equality, and equal opportunities among citizens are pillars of society, guaranteed by the state.
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– … The state shall guarantee equality between women and men,
... (Art. 15) - Arabic
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– العدل والمساواة وتكافؤ الفرص بين المواطنين دعامات للمجتمع، تكفلها الدولة.
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– ... وتكفل الدولة تحقيق المساواة بين المرأة والرجل،
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishAll persons are equal before the law and there shall be no discrimination whatsoever on grounds of sex, race, language, or religion. (Art. 35)
- Arabicالنّاس متساوون أمام القانون. لا تمييز بينهم في ذلك بسبب الجنس، أو الأصل، أو اللّغة، أو الدّين. (المادّة 35)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishWomen and men shall have the same rights and duties in all areas of family, political, economic, social and cultural life. (Sec. 17)
- TetumFeto no mane iha direitu no obrigasaun hanesan iha moris família, kulturál, sosiál, ekonómiku no polítiku nia laran. (Art. 17)
- PortugueseA mulher e o homem têm os mesmos direitos e obrigações em todos os domínios da vida familiar, cultural, social, económica e política. (Art. 17)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishAny kind of discrimination and distinction between citizens of Afghanistan shall be forbidden. The citizens of Afghanistan, man and woman, have equal rights and duties before the law. (Art. 22)
- Dariهر نوع تبعیض و امتیاز بین اتباع افغانستان ممنوع است. اتباع افغانستان اعم از زن و مرد در برابر قانون دارای حقوق و وجایب مساوی می باشند. (مادۀ ۲۲)
- Pashtoد افغانستان د اتباعو تر منځ هر راز تبعيض او امتياز منع دى. د افغانستان اتباع ښځې او نارينه د قانون په وړاندې مساوي حقوق او وجايب لري. (۲۲ ماده)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
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3. The State shall endeavour to create a civil society free of oppression, discrimination and violence, based on the rule of law, protection of human rights and dignity, and to ensure the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people.
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17. The State shall endeavour to take appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination and exploitation against women including trafficking, prostitution, abuse, violence, harassment and intimidation at work in both public and private spheres.
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རིང་ལུགས་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ཆེ་ མཐོང་གི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ གཉའ་གནོན་དང་ཕྱོགས་རིས་ འཚེ་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་བཟོ་ནི་དང་ མི་སེར་གྱི་གཞི་རྟེན་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ དལ་དབང་ཚུ་ ངེས་གཏན་ཡོདཔ་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་ བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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༡༧) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ནག་ཚོང་དང་ སྨད་ཚོང་ དམངས་སྒེར་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་གཉིས་ཆ་རའི་ནང་ ལཱ་སར་ ལོག་སྤྱོད་དང་ འཚེ་བ་ བསུན་འཚེར་ འཇིགས་བསྐུལ་བརྩིས་པའི་ཕྱོགས་རིས་དང་ བཀོལ་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ རྩ་མེད་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ཐབས་ ལམ་བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishAll citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with Islamic criteria. (Art. 20)
- Persianهمه افراد ملت اعم از زن و مرد یکسان در حمایت قانون قرار دارند و از همه حقوق انسانی، سیاسی، اقتصادی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی با رعایت موازین اسلام برخوردارند. (اصل 20)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishProvisions relating to the Amiri Regime in Kuwait and the principles of liberty and equality stipulated in this Constitution may not be proposed for amendment unless such amendment concerns the title of the Amirate mutato nomine or an increase of the guarantees of liberty and equality. (Art. 175)
- Arabicالأحكام الخاصة بالنظام الأميري للكويت وبمبادىء الحرية والمساواة المنصوص عليها في هذا الدستور لا يجوز اقتراح تنقيحها، ما لم يكن التنقيح خاصاً بلقب الإمارة أو بالمزيد من ضمانات الحرية والمساواة. (المادّة 175)