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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:
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EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;
… (Preamble) - Hindiहम, भारत के लोग, भारत को एक सम्पूर्ण प्रभुत्व-सम्पन्न समाजवादी पंथनिरपेक्ष लोकतंत्रात्मक गणराज्य बनाने के लिए तथा उसके समस्त नागरिकों को:
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स्थिति और अवसरों की की समानता;
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishAll persons shall be equal before the law, courts, and other state institutions and officials.
Human rights may not be restricted; no one may be granted any privileges on the grounds of gender, race, nationality, language, origin, social status, belief, convictions, or views. (Art. 29) - LithuanianĮstatymui, teismui ir kitoms valstybės institucijoms ar pareigūnams visi asmenys lygūs.
Žmogaus teisių negalima varžyti ir teikti jam privilegijų dėl jo lyties, rasės, tautybės, kalbos, kilmės, socialinės padėties, tikėjimo, įsitikinimų ar pažiūrų pagrindu. (29 straipsnis)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (4), (5), and (7), no law shall make provision which is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsections (6), (7), and (8), no person shall be treated in a discriminatory manner by any person acting by virtue of any law or in the performance of the functions of any public office or any public authority.
(3) In this section the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, tribe, sex, place of origin, political opinions, colour or creed whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject, or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.
(4) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any law so far as that law makes provision—
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d. with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other interests of personal law; or
e. for the application in the case of members of a particular race or tribe or customary law with respect to any matter to the exclusion of any law with respect to that matter which is applicable in the case of other persons; or
f. for authorising the taking during a period of public emergency of measures that are reasonably justifiable for the purpose of dealing with the situation that exists during that period of public emergency; or
g. whereby persons of any such description as mentioned in subsection (3) may be subjected to any disability or restriction or may be accorded any privilege or advantage which, having regard to its nature and to special circumstances pertaining to those persons or to persons of any other such description, is reasonably justifiable in a democratic society;
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(5) Nothing contained in any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of subsection (1) to the extent that it makes provision with respect to qualifications for service as a public officer or as a member of a defence force or for the service of a local government authority or a body corporate established directly by any law or of membership of Parliament.
(6) Subsection (2) shall not apply to anything which is expressly or by necessary implication authorised to be done by any such provisions of law as is referred to in subsection (4) or (5).
(7) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this section to the extent that the law in question makes provision whereby persons of any such description as is mentioned in subsection (3) may be subjected to any restriction of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by sections 18, 22, 24, 25 and 262 being such a restriction as is authorised by subsection (3) of section 18, subsection (2) of section 22, subsection (5) of section 24, subsection (2) of section 25 or subsection (2) of section 26, as the case may be.
(8) The exercise of any discretion relating to the institution, conduct or discontinuance of civil or criminal proceedings in any court that is vested in any person under or by this Constitution or any other law shall not be enquired into by any Court on the grounds that it contravenes the provision of subsection (2). (Sec. 27)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee to every individual, in accordance with the progressive principle and without discrimination of any kind, no renounceable, indivisible and interdependent enjoyment and exercise of human rights. … (Art. 19)
- SpanishEl Estado garantizará a toda persona, conforme al principio de progresividad y sin discriminación alguna, el goce y ejercicio irrenunciable, indivisible e interdependiente de los derechos humanos. … (Art. 19)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English1. Jordanians shall be equal before the law with no discrimination between them in rights and duties even if they differ in race, language or religion.
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3. The State shall ensure work and education within the limits of its possibilities, and shall ensure tranquility and equal opportunities to all Jordanians.
… (Art. 6) - Arabic1. الاردنيون أمام القانون سواء لا تمييز بينهم في الحقوق والواجبات وان اختلفوا في العرق أو اللغة أو الدين.
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3. تكفل الدّولة العمل والتعليم ضمن حدود امكانياتها وتكفل الطمأنينة وتكافؤ الفرص لجميع الاردنيين.
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishWe, the people of Korea, …
To afford equal opportunities to every person and provide for the fullest development of individual capabilities in all fields, including political, economic, social and cultural life by further strengthening the basic free and democratic order conducive to private initiative and public harmony, … (Preamble) - Korean우리 대한국민은, …
자율과 조화를 바탕으로 자유민주적 기본질서를 더욱 확고히 하여 정치·경제·사회·문화의 모든 영역에 있어서 각인의 기회를 균등히 하고, 능력을 최고도로 발휘하게 하며, ... (전문)
Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English1. Everyone is accorded the rights … to legal protection against any form of discrimination.
… (Art. 26) - Portuguese1. A todos são reconhecidos os direitos … à protecção legal contra quaisquer formas de discriminação.
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- EnglishThe object of this Constitution is to facilitate the building of the United Republic as a nation of equal and free individuals enjoying freedom, justice, fraternity and concord, through the pursuit of the policy of Socialism and Self Reliance which emphasizes the application of socialist principles while taking into account the conditions prevailing in the United Republic. Therefore, the state authority and all its agencies are obliged to direct their policies and programmes towards ensuring -
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(g) that the Government and all its agencies accord equal opportunities to all citizens, men and women alike without regard to their colour, tribe, religion or station in life;
(h) that all forms of injustice, intimidation, discrimination, corruption, oppression or favouritism are eradicated;
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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།
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Equality and Non-Discrimination
- English(a) Everyone is entitled to the rights and freedoms included in this Chapter3 without discrimination of any kind, including race, national origin, colour, sex, age, mental or physical disability, political or other opinion, property, birth or other status, or native island.
(b) Special assistance or protection to disadvantaged individuals or groups, or to groups requiring special social assistance, as provided in law shall not be deemed to be discrimination, as provided for in article (a). (Art. 17) - Dhivehi(ހ) މި ބާބުގައި ބަޔާންކޮށްފައިވާ ޙައްޤުތަކާއި މިނިވަންކަން، މިބާބުގައި ބަޔާންކޮށްފައިވާ ގޮތުގެ މަތީން އެއްވެސް ގޮތަކުން ތަފާތު ކުރުމެއްނެތި ކޮމްނެ މީހަކަށްމެ ލިބިގެންވެއެވެ. މިހައްޤުތަކާއި މިނިވަންކަން ލިބުމުގައި، އެމީހެއްގެ ނަސްލަށް، ނުވަތަ އުފަންވީ ޤައުމަށް، ނުވަތަ ކުލަޔަށް، ނުވަތަ ޖިންސަށް، ނުވަތަ އުމުރަށް، ނުވަތަ ޖިސްމާނީ ނުވަތަ ނަފްސާނީ ނުކުޅެދުންތެރިކަމަކަށް، ނުވަތަ އެ މީހެއްގެ ސިޔާސީ ނުވަތަ އެނޫންވެސް ވިސްނުމަކަށް، ނުވަތަ މާލީ ފުއްދުންތެރިކަމަށް، ނުވަތަ ނިސްބަތްވާ ޢާއިލާއަށް ނުވަތަ އުފަންރަށަށް، ނުވަތަ މިނޫންވެސް ކަމަކަށް ބަލައި ތަފާތުކޮށްގެނެއްނުވާނެއެވެ.
(ށ) މުޖްތަމައުގެ އާންމު ޙާލަތަށްވުރެ ނިކަމެތިކަމެއް ލިބިފައިވާ މީހަކަށް، ނުވަތަ ބަޔަކަށް، ނުވަތަ އިޖްތިމާއީ ގޮތުން ހާއްސަ ރައްކާރެތިކަމެއް ލިބިދޭންޖެހޭ ބަޔަކަށް އެހިތެރިވެދިނުމަށްޓަކައި، ނުވަތަ ރައްކާތެރިކަން ލިބިދިނުމަށްޓަކައި ކުރާކަންތައްތަކަކީ މި މާއްދާގެ (ހ) ގައި ބަޔާންކޮށްފައިވާ ފަދަ ތަފާތުކުރުމެއް ކަމުގައި ނުވާނެއެވެ. (ޤާނޫނުއަސާސީގެ 17 ވަނަ މާއްދާ)