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Indigenous Peoples
Vanuatu
- English1. The Judicial Service Commission shall consist of the Minister responsible for justice, as Chairman, the Chief Justice, the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, and a representative of the Malvatumauri Council of Chiefs appointed by the Council.
... (Art. 48) - French1) La Commission de la Magistrature est composée du Ministre responsable de la justice, qui la préside, du président de la Cour Suprême, du président de la Commission de la Fonction publique, et d'un représentant du Conseil des Chefs Malvatumauri nommé par le Conseil.
... (Art. 48)
Indigenous Peoples
Afghanistan
- EnglishWe the people of Afghanistan:
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Comprehending that a united, indivisible Afghanistan belongs to all its tribes and peoples;
… (Preamble) - Dariما مردم افغانستان:
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با درك این كه افغانستان واحد و یكپارچه به همه اقوام و مردم این سرزمین تعلق دارد؛
... (مقدمه) - Pashtoموږ د افغانستان خلكو:
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په دې درك سره چې واحد او يو مو ټى افغانستان ددې خاورې په ټولو قومونو او خلكو اړه لري؛
... (سريزه)
Indigenous Peoples
Ethiopia
- English…
2. Each Nation, Nationality and People shall be represented in the House of the Federation by at least one member. Each Nation or Nationality shall be represented by one additional representative for each one million of its population.
… (Art. 61) - Amharic…
2. እያንዳንዱ ብሔር፣ ብሔረሰብ፣ ሕዝብ ቢያንስ አንድ ተወካይ ይኖረዋል፤በተጨማሪም የብሔር ወይም ብሔረሰቡ አንድ ሚሊዮን ሕዝብ አንድ ተጨማሪ ወኪል ይኖረዋል፡፡
… (አንቀጽ 61)
Indigenous Peoples
Uganda
- English…
2. A person shall not be qualified to be elected a regional chairperson unless
a. he or she is a citizen of Uganda by birth as defined in article 10 of this Constitution and one of whose parents or grandparents is or was resident in the region and a member of the indigenous communities existing and residing within the borders of the region as at the first day of February, 1926;
... (Fifth schedule: Regional Governments, Art. 4)
Indigenous Peoples
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- EnglishI. The rural native indigenous jurisdiction is based on the specific connection between the persons who are members of the respective nation or rural native indigenous people.
II. The rural native indigenous jurisdiction is exercised in the following areas of personal, material and territorial legal effect:
1. Members of the nation or rural native indigenous people are subject to this jurisdiction whether they act as plaintiffs or defendants, claimants or accusers, whether they are persons who are denounced or accused, or are appellants or respondents.
2. This jurisdiction hears rural native indigenous matters pursuant to that established in a law of Jurisdictional Demarcation.
3. This jurisdiction applies to the relations and juridical acts that are carried out, or the effects of which are produced, within the jurisdiction of a rural native indigenous people. (Art. 191) - SpanishI. La jurisdicción indígena originario campesina se fundamenta en un vínculo particular de las personas que son miembros de la respectiva nación o pueblo indígena originario campesino.
II. La jurisdicción indígena originario campesina se ejerce en los siguientes ámbitos de vigencia personal, material y territorial:
1. Están sujetos a esta jurisdicción los miembros de la nación o pueblo indígena originario campesino, sea que actúen como actores o demandado, denunciantes o querellantes, denunciados o imputados, recurrentes o recurridos.
2. Esta jurisdicción conoce los asuntos indígena originario campesinos de conformidad a lo establecido en una Ley de Deslinde Jurisdiccional.
3. Esta jurisdicción se aplica a las relaciones y hechos jurídicos que se realizan o cuyos efectos se producen dentro de la jurisdicción de un pueblo indígena originario campesino. (Art. 191)
Indigenous Peoples
Bolivia, Plurinational State of
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III. The State recognizes, protects and guarantees communitarian or collective property, which includes rural native indigenous territory, native, intercultural communities and rural communities. Collective property is indivisible, may not be subject to prescription or attachment, is inalienable and irreversible, and it is not subject to agrarian property taxes. Communities can be owners, recognizing the complementary character of collective and individual rights, respecting the territorial unity in common. (Art. 394) - Spanish...
III. El Estado reconoce, protege y garantiza la propiedad comunitaria o colectiva, que comprende el territorio indígena originario campesino, las comunidades interculturales originarias y de las comunidades campesinas. La propiedad colectiva se declara indivisible, imprescriptible, inembargable, inalienable e irreversible y no está sujeta al pago de impuestos a la propiedad agraria. Las comunidades podrán ser tituladas reconociendo la complementariedad entre derechos colectivos e individuales respetando la unidad territorial con identidad. (Art. 394)
Indigenous Peoples
India
- English(1) Seats shall be reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in every Municipality 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 Municipality as the population of the Scheduled Castes in the Municipal area or of the Scheduled Tribes in the Municipal area bears to the total population of that area and such seats may be allotted by rotation to different constituencies in a Municipality.
… (Art. 243T) - Hindi(1) प्रत्येक नगरपालिका में अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के लिए स्थान आरक्षित रहेंगे और इस प्रकार आरक्षित स्थानों की संख्या का अनुपात, उस नगरपालिका में प्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचन द्वारा भरे जाने वाले स्थानों की कुल संख्या से यथाशक्य वही होगा जो उस नगरपालिका क्षेत्र में अनुसूचित जातियों की अथवा उस नगरपालिका क्षेत्र में अनुसूचित जनजातियों की जनसंख्या का अनुपात उस क्षेत्र की कुल जनसंख्या से है और ऐसे स्थान किसी नगरपालिका के भिन्न-भिन्न निर्वाचन क्षेत्रों को चक्रानुक्रम से आबंटित किए जा सकेंगे।
… (अनुच्छेद 243न)
Indigenous Peoples
Colombia
- EnglishThe Senate of the Republic will be made up of one hundred members elected in one national circumscription.
There will be an additional number of two Senators elected in a special national circumscription by indigenous communities.
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The Special District for the election of Senators by the indigenous communities will be governed by the system of the electoral quotient [sistema de cuociente electoral].
The representatives of the indigenous communities who aspire to become part of the Senate of the Republic must have exercised a position of traditional authority in their respective community or have been [a] leader of an indigenous organization, [a] qualification that will be verified by a certificate from the respective organization, endorsed by the Minister of Government. (Art. 171) - SpanishEl Senado de la República estará integrado por cien miembros elegidos en circunscripción nacional.
Habrá un número adicional de dos senadores elegidos en circunscripción nacional especial por comunidades indígenas.
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La Circunscripción Especial para la elección de senadores por las comunidades indígenas se regirá por el sistema de cuociente electoral.
Los representantes de las comunidades indígenas que aspiren a integrar el Senado de la República, deberán haber ejercido un cargo de autoridad tradicional en su respectiva comunidad o haber sido líder de una organización indígena, calidad que se acreditará mediante certificado de la respectiva organización, refrendado por el Ministro de Gobierno. (Art. 171)
Indigenous Peoples
Myanmar
- 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
Guatemala
- EnglishThe administration of the educational system must be decentralized and regionalized.
In the schools established in regions with a predominantly indigenous population, the education must be provided preferentially in [a] bilingual form. (Art. 76) - SpanishLa administración del Sistema educativo deberá ser descentralizado y regionalizado.
En las escuelas establecidas en zonas de predominante población indígena, la enseñanza deberá impartirse preferentemente en forma bilingüe. (Art. 76)