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Indigenous Peoples
Vanuatu
- English1. Notwithstanding Articles 73 and 74 the Government may buy land from custom owners for the purpose of transferring ownership of it to indigenous citizens or indigenous communities from over-populated islands.
2. When redistributing land in accordance with subarticle (1), the Government shall give priority to ethnic, linguistic, customary and geographical ties. (Art. 81) - French1) Nonobstant les dispositions des articles 73 et 74, le gouvernement peut acheter des terres aux propriétaires coutumiers dans le but d'en transférer la propriété aux citoyens indigènes ou à des collectivités indigènes originaires d'îles surpeuplées.
2) Pour la redistribution des terres effectuée en application du paragraphe 1), le gouvernement tient compte en priorité des facteurs ethniques, linguistiques, coutumiers et géographiques. (Art. 81)
Indigenous Peoples
Afghanistan
- EnglishThe state, within its financial means, shall design and implement effective programs to develop agriculture and animal husbandry, improve economic, social, and living conditions of farmers, herders and settlers as well as the nomads' livelihood. … (Art. 14)
- Dariدولت برای انكشاف زراعت و مالداری، بهبود شرایط اقتصادی، اجتماعی و معیشتی دهقانان و مالداران و اسكان و بهبود زندگی كوچیان، در حدود بنیهٔ مالی دولت، پروگرامهای مؤثر طرح و تطبیق می نماید. ... (مادۀ ۱۴)
- Pashtoدولت د كرنې او مالدارۍ د پراختيا، د بزگرانو او مالدارانو د اقتصادي ټولنيزو او د ژوند د شرايطو د ښه كولو او د كوچيانو د ميشتولو او د دوى د ژوند د سمون لپاره د دولت د مالي توان په حدودو كې اغېزمن پروگرامونه طرح او تطبيقوي.... (۱۴ ماده)
Indigenous Peoples
Kenya
- EnglishThe State shall put in place affirmative action programmes designed to ensure that minorities and marginalised groups—
(a) participate and are represented in governance and other spheres of life;
(b) are provided special opportunities in educational and economic fields;
(c) are provided special opportunities for access to employment;
(d) develop their cultural values, languages and practices; and
(e) have reasonable access to water, health services and infrastructure. (Art. 56) - SwahiliSerikali itaweka mipango thabiti ya utekelezaji iliyowekwa ili kuhakikisha kwamba watu wenye uwakilishi mdogo katika jamii na makundi yaliyotengwa na jamii-
(a) wanashiriki na wanawakilishwa katika utawala na nyanja nyingine za maisha;
(b) wanapewa fursa maalumu katika nyanja za elimu na uchumi;
(c) wanapewa fursa maalumu za kupata ajira;
(d) wanakuza tunu zao za kitamaduni, lugha na desturi; na
(e) wanaweza kupata maji, huduma za afya na miundombinu. (Kifungu cha 56)
Indigenous Peoples
Belize
- EnglishWHEREAS the people of Belize-
…
(e) require policies of state … which protect the identity, dignity and social and cultural values of Belizeans, including Belize's indigenous peoples; … (Preamble)
Indigenous Peoples
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- EnglishI. The nations and rural native indigenous peoples may elect their political representatives whenever required, in accordance with their own forms of election.
II. The Electoral Organ shall assure that the norms of those peoples and nations will be complied with strictly in the elections of authorities, representatives and candidates of the nations and rural native indigenous peoples, using their own norms and procedures. (Art. 211) - SpanishI. Las naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos podrán elegir a sus representantes políticos en las instancias que corresponda, de acuerdo con sus formas propias de elección.
II. El Órgano Electoral supervisará que en la elección de autoridades, representantes y candidatas y candidatos de los pueblos y naciones indígena originario campesinos mediante normas y procedimientos propios, se de estricto cumplimiento a la normativa de esos pueblos y naciones. (Art. 211)
Indigenous Peoples
Brazil
- English
The Union has the exclusive power to legislate on:
…
XIV – Indian populations;
… (Art. 22) - Portuguese
Compete privativamente à União legislar sobre:
…
XIV - populações indígenas;
… (Art. 22)
Indigenous Peoples
India
- EnglishThe claims of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be taken into consideration, consistently with the maintenance of efficiency of administration, in the making of appointments to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State:
Provided that nothing in this article shall prevent in making of any provision in favour of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for relaxation in qualifying marks in any examination or lowering the standards of evaluation, for reservation in matters or promotion to any class or classes of services or posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State. (Art. 335) - Hindiसंघ या किसी राज्य के कार्यकलाप से संबंधित सेवाओं और पदों के लिए नियुक्तियाँ करने में, अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के सदस्यों के दावों का, प्रशासन की दक्षता बनाए रखने की संगति के अनुसार ध्यान रखा जाएगा:
परंतु इस अनुच्छेद की कोई बात अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के सदस्यों के पक्ष में, संघ या किसी राज्य के कार्यकलाप से संबंधित सेवाओं के किसी वर्ग या वर्गों में या पदों पर प्रोन्नति के मामलों में आरक्षण के लिए, किसी परीक्षा में अर्हक अंकों में छूट देने या मूल्यांकन के मानकों को घटाने के लिए उपबंध करने से निवारित नहीं करेगी। (अनुच्छेद 335)
Indigenous Peoples
Colombia
- EnglishThe form of the indigenous territorial entities will be made subject to what the Organic Law of Territorial Ordering provides, and their delimitation will be made by the National Government, with the participation of the representatives of the indigenous communities, after the opinion of the Commission of Territorial Ordering.The reservations [resguardos] are collective property and non-alienable.
The law will define the relations and coordination of these entities with those of which they form a part.
… (Art. 329) - SpanishLa conformación de las entidades territoriales indígenas se hará con sujeción a lo dispuesto en la Ley Orgánica de Ordenamiento Territorial, y su delimitación se hará por el Gobierno Nacional, con participación de los representantes de las comunidades indígenas, previo concepto de la Comisión de Ordenamiento Territorial. Los resguardos son de propiedad colectiva y no enajenable.
La ley definirá las relaciones y la coordinación de estas entidades con aquellas de las cuales formen parte.
… (Art. 329)
Indigenous Peoples
Myanmar
- EnglishThe Union shall assist :
(a) to develop language, literature, fine arts and culture of the National races;
(b) to promote solidarity, mutual amity and respect and mutual assistance among the National races;
(c) to promote socio-economic development including education, health, economy, transport and communication, so forth, of less-developed National races. (Sec. 22) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် -
(က) တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ စကား၊ စာပေ၊ အနုပညာ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု တို့ကို ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်စေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ခ) တိုင်းရင်းသားအချင်းချင်း စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေး၊ ချစ်ကြည်လေးစားရေးနှင့် ရိုင်းပင်း ကူညီရေးတို့ တိုးတက်ဖြစ်ထွန်းစေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ဂ) တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုနည်းပါးနေသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ ပညာရေး၊ ကျန်းမာရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး စသည်တို့ပါဝင်သော လူမှုစီးပွားရေး တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုး ရေးအတွက် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၂)
Indigenous Peoples
Guatemala
- EnglishThrough special programs and adequate legislation, the State will provide state lands to the indigenous communities who may need them for their development. (Art. 68)
- SpanishMediante programas especiales y legislación adecuada, el Estado proveerá de tierras estatales a las comunidades indígenas que las necesiten para su desarrollo. (Art. 68)