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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the rights of pregnant and breast-feeding women to:
1. Not be discriminated for their pregnancy in education, social, and labor sectors.
2. Free maternal healthcare services.
3. Priority protection and care of their integral health and life during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
4. The facilities needed for their recovery after pregnancy and during breast-feeding. (Art. 43) - SpanishEl Estado garantizará a las mujeres embarazadas y en periodo de lactancia los derechos a:
1. No ser discriminadas por su embarazo en los ámbitos educativo, social y laboral.
2. La gratuidad de los servicios de salud materna.
3. La protección prioritaria y cuidado de su salud integral y de su vida durante el embarazo, parto y posparto.
4. Disponer de las facilidades necesarias para su recuperación después del embarazo y durante el periodo de lactancia. (Art. 43)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
(1) Every woman shall have equal lineage right without gender-based discrimination.
(2) Every woman shall have the right to safe motherhood and reproductive health.
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(6) The husband and wife shall have the equal right to property and family affairs. (Art. 38) - Nepali
(१) प्रत्येक महिलालाई लैंगिक भेदभाव विना समान वंशीय हक हुनेछ ।
(२) प्रत्येक महिलालाई सुरक्षित मातृत्व र प्रजनन स्वास्थ्य सम्बन्धी हक हुनेछ ।
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(६) सम्पत्ति तथा पारिवारिक मामिलामा दम्पतीको समान हक हुनेछ । (धारा ३८)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall give full consideration for children and mothers, by encouraging the creation of nurseries and by attending to women without support who have many children under their cares. (Art. 73)
- Khmerរដ្ឋយកចិត្តទុកដាក់ចំពោះកុមារ និងមាតា។ រដ្ឋរៀបចំ ឱ្យមានទារកដ្ឋាន និងជួយឧបត្ថម្ភនារីដែលមានកូនច្រើនក្នុងបន្ទុក ហើយឥតទីពឹង។ (មាត្រា ៧៣)
Marriage and Family Life
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(2) Citizens have the right to pensions, paid maternity leave, medical care in public health centres, unemployment benefits, and other forms of public or private social securities, as stipulated by the law. Citizens have the right to social assistance, according to the law. (Art. 47) - Romanian…
(2) Cetăţenii au dreptul la pensie, la concediu de maternitate plătit, la asistenţă medicală în unităţile sanitare de stat, la ajutor de şomaj şi la alte forme de asigurări sociale publice sau private, prevăzute de lege. Cetăţenii au dreptul şi la măsuri de asistenţă socială, potrivit legii. (Art. 47)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe Law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the protection of the family;
… (Art. 100) - FrenchLa loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- de la protection de la famille ;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe law will regulate the personal and patrimonial relations of the spouses among themselves, and between themselves and their children, establishing the rights and reciprocal duties over equitable bases; and will create the necessary institutions to guarantee its applicability. Likewise it will regulate the family relations resulting from the stable union of a man and a woman. (Art. 33)
- SpanishLa ley regulará las relaciones personales y patrimoniales de los cónyuges entre sí y entre ellos y sus hijos, estableciendo los derechos y deberes recíprocos sobre bases equitativas; y creará las instituciones necesarias para garantizar su aplicabilidad. Regulará asimismo las relaciones familiars resultantes de la unión estable de un varón y una mujer. (Art. 33)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe sanctity of human privacy shall be inviolable, and therefore interference into privacy of a person, family affairs, home of residence, correspondence, or any other act of interference that may demean or defame a person may not be allowed save as limited by the provisions of the law stipulated therein (Art. 37)
- Arabicلخصوصية الإنسان حرمتها، فلا يجوز تعرض أي شخص، لأي تدخّل في خصوصياته أو شؤون أسرته أو مسكنه أو مراسلاته أو أيّة تدخلات تمسّ شرفه أو سمعته، إلّا وفقاً لأحكام القانون وبالكيفية المنصوص عليها فيه. (المادّة 37)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishMarriage is based on the equality of spouses. Marriages shall be solemnised before an empowered state authority.
Marriage and the legal relations within it and the family, as well as those within an extramarital union, shall be regulated by law.
The state shall protect the family, motherhood, fatherhood, children and young people and shall create the necessary conditions for such protection. (Art. 53) - SloveneZakonska zveza temelji na enakopravnosti zakoncev. Sklene se pred pristojnim državnim organom.
Zakonsko zvezo in pravna razmerja v njej, v družini in v zunajzakonski skupnosti ureja zakon.
Država varuje družino, materinstvo, očetovstvo, otroke in mladino ter ustvarja za to varstvo potrebne razmere. (53. Člen)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
Forced marriage is a violation of individual liberty. It is forbidden and punished within the conditions established by the law. (Art. 18)
- French
Le mariage forcé est une violation de la liberté individuelle. Elle est interdite et punie dans les conditions fixées par la loi. (Art. 18)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the source of the education and the parents are entitled to choose what is to be taught [impartirse] to their minor children.
… (Art. 73) - SpanishLa familia es fuente de la educación y los padres tienen derecho a escoger la que ha de impartirse a sus hijos menores.
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