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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishA mother and a child shall be entitled to special care and protection by the state.
Parents are responsible for the upbringing and education of children, and adult and able-bodied children are responsible for the care and social welfare of their parents. … (Art. 34) - RussianМать и ребенок находятся под особой защитой и покровительством государства.
Родители ответственны за воспитание и обучение детей, а совершеннолетние и трудоспособные дети ответственны за уход и социальное обеспечение своих родителей. ...(Статья 34) - TajikМодару кӯдак таҳти ҳимоя ва ғамхории махсуси давлатанд.
Падару модар барои таълиму тарбияи фарзандон ва фарзандони болиљу ѕобили меінат барои нигоіубин ва таъминоти иїтимоии падару модар масъул мебошанд. … (Моддаи 34)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe duties of Bolivians are:
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9. To care for, feed, and education their children.
… (Art. 108) - SpanishSon deberes de las bolivianas y los bolivianos:
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9. Asistir, alimentar y educar a las hijas e hijos.
… (Art. 108)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe right to marry and to have a family is guaranteed. (Art. 14)
- FrenchLe droit au mariage et à la famille est garanti. (Art. 14)
- GermanDas Recht auf Ehe und Familie ist gewährleistet. (Art. 14)
- ItalianIl diritto al matrimonio e alla famiglia è garantito. (Art. 14)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe law will establish the formalities to celebrate matrimony between a man and a woman, the requirements to contract it, the causes for separation, for dissolution and their effects, as well as the regime of administration of assets and other rights and obligations between spouses.
The unions of fact between a man and a woman, without legal impediments to contract matrimony, that meet the conditions of stability and singularity, produce similar effects to a matrimony, within the conditions established by the law. (Art. 51) - SpanishLa ley establecerá las formalidades para la celebración del matrimonio entre el hombre y la mujer, los requisitos para contraerlo, las causas de separación, de disolución y sus efectos, así como el régimen de administración de bienes y otros derechos y obligaciones entre cónyuges.
Las uniones de hecho entre el hombre y la mujer, sin impedimentos legales para contraer matrimonio, que reúnan las condiciones de estabilidad y singularidad, producen efectos similares al matrimonio, dentro de las condiciones que establezca la ley. (Art. 51)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) Every child has the right
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(e) to parental care and protection, which includes equal responsibility of the mother and father to provide for the child, whether they are married to each other or not;
… (Art. 53) - Swahili(1) Kila mtoto ana haki
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(e) ya malezi na ulinzi wa wazazi, ambayo hujumuisha jukumu sawa la mama na baba kumhudumia mtoto, iwe wameoana au la;
… (Kifungu cha 53)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the cornerstone of the community. The fundamental principles on which the family is based are, religion, ethics and patriotism. The law safeguards the family’s existence and maintains and protects it from corruption. (Art. 15)
- Arabicاﻷﺳﺮﺓ اﺳﺎﺱ اﻟﻤﺠﺘﻤﻊ ﻗﻮاﻣﻬﺎ اﻟﺪﻳﻦ واﻻﺧﻼﻕ وﺣﺐ اﻟ ﻮﻃﻦ، وﻳﻜﻔﻞ اﻟﻘﺎﻧﻮﻥ ﻛﻴﺎﻧﻬﺎ ، وﻳﺼﻮﻧﻬﺎ وﻳﺤﻤﻴﻬﺎ ﻣﻦ اﻻﻧﺤ ﺮاﻑ. (المادّة 15)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State recognizes, without any discrimination, the primacy of the inalienable rights of the person and protects the family as the basic institution of the society. (Art. 5)
- SpanishEl Estado reconoce, sin discriminación alguna, la primacía de los derechos inalienables de la persona y ampara a la familia como institución básica de la sociedad. (Art. 5)
Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (8) of this section, no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
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3. In this section, the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, 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) of this section shall not apply to any law so far as that law makes provision-
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c. for the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in the preceding subsection (or of persons connected with such persons), of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters that is the personal law applicable to persons of that description;
… (Sec. 15)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
Work, in its diverse modalities, is [an] object of priority attention of the State, which especially protects the mother, the minor and the disabled who work.
... (Art. 23) - Spanish
El trabajo, en sus diversas modalidades, es objeto de atencion prioritaria del Estado, el cual protege especialmente a la madre, al menor de edad y al impedido que trabajan.
... (Art. 23)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall actively promote the welfare and development of the people of Malawi by progressively adopting and implementing policies and legislation aimed at achieving the following goals—
a. Gender Equality
To obtain gender equality through—
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iii. the implementation of policies to address social issues such as domestic violence, security of the person, lack of maternity benefits, economic exploitation and rights to property.
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i. The Family
To recognize and protect the family as a fundamental and vital social unit.
… (Sec. 13)