SEARCH DATABASE
The Global Gender Equality Constitutional Database is a repository of gender equality related provisions in 194 constitutions from around the world. The Database was updated in partnership with the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) and with support from the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the Government of Japan. Experience its wealth and depth of information by starting your search now.
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall take steps to protect and develop the unique local culture and tradition of the tribes, minor races, ethnic sects and communities. (Art. 23A)
- Bengaliরাষ্ট্র বিভিন্ন উপজাতি, ক্ষুদ্র জাতিসত্তা, নৃ-গোষ্ঠী ও সম্প্রদায়ের অনন্য বৈশিষ্ট্যপূর্ণ আঞ্চলিক সংস্কৃতি এবং ঐতিহ্য সংরক্ষণ, উন্নয়ন ও বিকাশের ব্যবস্থা গ্রহণ করিবেন। (অনুচ্ছেদ ২৩ক)
Indigenous Peoples
- English(1) There shall be established in each State having Scheduled Areas therein and, if the President so directs, also in any State having Scheduled Tribes but not Scheduled Areas therein, a Tribes Advisory Council consisting of not more than twenty members of whom, as nearly as may be, three-fourths shall be the representatives of the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of the State:
Provided that if the number of representatives of the Scheduled Tribes in the Legislative Assembly of the State is less than the number of seats in the Tribes Advisory Council to be filled by such representatives, the remaining seats shall be filled by other members of those tribes.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Tribes Advisory Council to advise on such matters pertaining to the welfare and advancement of the Scheduled Tribes in the State as may be referred to them by the Governor. (Fifth Schedule: Provisions as to the Administration and Control of Scheduled Areas and Scheduled Tribes, Part B - Art. 4) - Hindi(1) अनुसूचित क्षेत्रों वाले प्रत्येक राज्य में और, यदि राष्ट्रपति निर्देश दे, और ऐसे राज्य में भी जहां अनुसूचित जनजातियाँ हैं परंतु अनुसूचित क्षेत्र नहीं हैं, अधिकतम बीस सदस्यों वाली एक जनजाति सलाहकार समिति स्थापित की जाएगी, जिसमें यथासंभव तीन-चौथाई सदस्य उस राज्य की विधान सभा के प्रतिनिधि होंगे:
बशर्ते कि राज्य की विधान सभा में जनजातियों के प्रतिनिधियों की संख्या जनजाति सलाहकार परिषद में ऐसे प्रतिनिधियों से भरे जाने वाली सीटों की संख्या से कम है तो शेष सीटें उन जनजातियों के अन्य सदस्यों से भरी जाएंगी।
(2) जनजाति सलाहकार परिषद का यह कर्तव्य होगा कि वह राज्यपाल द्वारा उन्हें भेजे गए राज्य में अनुसूचित जातियों के कल्याण तथा प्रोन्नति से संबंधित मामलों में सलाह दे। (पाँचवी अनुसूची: अनुसूचित क्षेत्रों तथा अनुसूचित जनजातियों के प्रशासन तथा नियंत्रण से संबंधित प्रावधान, भाग-ख – अनुच्छेद 4)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishEvery citizen shall, in accord with the law, have the right to freely develop literature, culture, arts, customs and traditions they cherish. In the process, they shall avoid any act detrimental to national solidarity. Moreover, any particular action which might adversely affect the interests of one or several other national races shall be taken only after coordinating with and obtaining the settlement of those affected. (Sec. 365)
- Burmeseနိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ မိမိတို့အမြတ်တနိုးထားရှိသော စာပေ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု၊ အနုပညာနှင့် ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်းတို့ကို လွတ်လပ်စွာ ပြုစုပျိူးထောင်ဆောင်ရွက်ပိုင်ခွင့် ရှိသည်။ ယင်းသို့ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် တိုင်းရင်းသားစည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေးကို ထိပါးမှုမရှိစေရန် ရှောင်ကြဉ်ရမည်။ ထို့ပြင် မိမိတို့၏ဆောင်ရွက်မှုသည် အခြားတိုင်းရင်းသား လူမျိုးတစ်မျိုးကိုဖြစ်စေ၊ လူမျိုးများကိုဖြစ်စေ ထိခိုက်နစ်နာစေနိုင်လျှင် သက်ဆိုင်သူများအချင်းချင်းညှိနှိုင်း၍ ပြေလည်မှုရရှိပြီးမှသာ ဆောင်ရွက်ခွင့် ရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၆၅)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall recognize, respect, and protect the rights of indigenous cultural communities to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions, and institutions. It shall consider these rights in the formulation of national plans and policies. (Art. XIV, Sec. 17)
- FilipinoDapat kilalanin, igalang, at pangalagaan ng Estado ang mga karapatan ng mga katutubong pamayanang kultural sa pagpapanatili at pagpapayaman ng kanilang kultura, mga tradisyon, at mga institusyon. Dapat isaalang-alang nito ang mga karapatang ito sa pagbabalangkas ng mga pambansang plano at mga patakaran. (Art. XIV, Seksyon 17)
Indigenous Peoples
- English(1) All persons are equal before the law and entitled to the equal protection of the law.
(2) Except as expressly authorized by this Constitution, there shall be no discrimination against citizens on the ground only of religion, race, descent, place of birth or gender in any law or in the appointment to any office or employment under a public authority or in the administration of any law relating to the acquisition, holding or disposition of property or the establishing or carrying on of any trade, business, profession, vocation or employment.
…
(5) This Article does not invalidate or prohibit—
…
(c) any provision for the protection, well-being or advancement of the aboriginal peoples of the Malay Peninsula (including the reservation of land) or the reservation to aborigines of a reasonable proportion of suitable positions in the public service;
… (Art. 8) - Malay(1) Semua orang adalah sama rata di sisi undang-undang dan berhak mendapat perlindungan yang sama rata di sisi undang-undang.
(2) Kecuali sebagaimana yang dibenarkan dengan nyata oleh Perlembagaan ini tidak boleh ada diskriminasi terhadap warganegara semata-mata atas alasan agama, ras, keturunan, tempat lahir atau jantina dalam mana-mana undang-undang atau dalam pelantikan kepada apa-apa jawatan atau pekerjaan di bawah sesuatu pihak berkuasa awam atau dalam pentadbiran mana-mana undang-undang yang berhubungan dengan pemerolehan, pemegangan atau pelupusan harta atau berhubungan dengan penubuhan atau penjalanan apa-apa pertukangan, perniagaan, profesion, kerjaya atau pekerjaan.
…
(5) Perkara ini tidak menidaksahkan atau melarang—
…
(c) apa-apa peruntukan bagi perlindungan, kesentosaan atau pemajuan orang asli Semenanjung Tanah Melayu (termasuk perizaban tanah) atau perizaban bagi orang asli suatu perkadaran yang munasabah daripada jawatan-jawatan yang sesuai dalam perkhidmatan awam;
… (Perkara 8)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall pursue the following policies:
…
(j) Policies relating to social justice and inclusion:
…
(8) to make the indigenous nationalities participate in decisions concerning that community by making special provisions for opportunities and benefits in order to ensure the right of these nationalities to live with dignity, along with their identity, and protect and promote traditional knowledge, skill, culture, social tradition and experience of the indigenous nationalities and local communities,
… (Art. 51) - Nepaliराज्यले देहायका नीतिहरू अवलम्बन गर्नेछ ः–
...
(ञ) सामाजिक न्याय र समावेशीकरण सम्बन्धी नीतिः
...
(८) आदिवासी जनजातिको पहिचान सहित सम्मानपूर्वक बाँच्न पाउने अधिकार सुनिश्चित गर्न अवसर तथा लाभकालागि विशेष व्यवस्था गर्दै यस समुदायसँग सरोकार राख्ने निर्णयहरूमा सहभागी गराउने तथा आदिवासी जनजाति र स्थानीय समुदायको परम्परागत ज्ञान, सीप, संस्कृति, सामाजिक परम्परा र अनुभवलाई संरक्षण र संवर्धन गर्र्नेे,
... (धारा ५१)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishWe the people of Afghanistan:
…
Comprehending that a united, indivisible Afghanistan belongs to all its tribes and peoples;
… (Preamble) - Dariما مردم افغانستان:
...
با درك این كه افغانستان واحد و یكپارچه به همه اقوام و مردم این سرزمین تعلق دارد؛
... (مقدمه) - Pashtoموږ د افغانستان خلكو:
…
په دې درك سره چې واحد او يو مو ټى افغانستان ددې خاورې په ټولو قومونو او خلكو اړه لري؛
... (سريزه)
Indigenous Peoples
- English(1) Seats shall be reserved for—
(a) the Scheduled Castes; and
(b) the Scheduled Tribes,
in every Panchayat and the number of seats so reserved shall bear, as nearly as may be, the same proportion to the total number of seats to be filled by direct election in that Panchayat as the population of the Scheduled Castes in that Panchayat area or of the Scheduled Tribes in that Panchayat area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Panchayat.
… (Art. 243D) - Hindi(1) प्रत्येक पंचायत में—
(क) अनुसूचित जातियों; और
(ख) अनुसूचित जनजातियों,
के लिए स्थान आरक्षित रहेंगे और इस प्रकार आरक्षित स्थानों की संख्या का अनुपात, उस पंचायत क्षेत्र में प्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन द्वारा भरे जाने वाले स्थानों की कुल संख्या से यथाशक्य वही होगा जो उस पंचायत में अनुसूचित जातियों की अथवा उस पंचायत क्षेत्र में अनुसूचित जनजातियों की जनसंख्या का अनुपात उस क्षेत्र की कुल जनसंख्या से है और ऐसे स्थान किसी पंचायत के भिन्न-भिन्न निर्वाचन क्षेत्रों को चक्रानुक्रम से आबंटित किए जा सकेंगे।
… (अनुच्छेद 243घ)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
We, the National people, firmly resolve that we shall :
...
- uphold racial equality, living eternally in unity fostering the firm Union Spirit of true patriotism;
... (Preamble) - Burmese
ကျွန်ုပ်တို့တိုင်းရင်းသားပြည်သူအပေါင်းတို့သည် -
...
- နိုင်ငံတော်အတွင်း လူမျိုးရေးတန်းတူမှုဖြင့် စစ်မှန်သော မျိုးချစ်စိတ်ဓာတ်ဖြစ်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စုစိတ်ဓာတ်ကို ခိုင်မြဲစွာမွေးမြူလျက် ထာဝစဉ်စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်စွာ အတူတကွ လက်တွဲနေထိုင်ကြမည်ဟု သန္နိဌာန်ချမှတ်၍လည်းကောင်း၊
... (နိဒါန်း)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State recognizes and promotes the rights of indigenous cultural communities within the framework of national unity and development. (Art. II, Sec. 22)
- FilipinoKinikilala at itinataguyod ng Estado ang mga karapatan ng mga katutubong pamayanang kultural sa loob ng balangkas ng pambansang pagkakaisa at pag-unlad. (Art. II, Seksyon 22)