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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Marriage and family, motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood shall be under the protection of the state.
2. Care and upbringing of children shall be a natural right and responsibility of parents.
3. Adult, able-bodied children must take care of their disabled parents. (Art. 27) - Kazak1. Неке мен отбасы, ана мен әке және бала мемлекеттiң қорғауында болады.
2. Балаларына қамқорлық жасау және оларды тәрбиелеу - ата-ананың етене құқығы әрi мiндетi.
3. Кәмелетке толған еңбекке қабiлеттi балалар еңбекке жарамсыз ата-анасына қамқорлық жасауға мiндеттi. (27-бап)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the basis of society and the fundamental space for the integral development of people. It is formed by natural or legal ties, by the free decision of a man and a woman to enter into marriage or by the responsible willingness to conform to it.
1. All persons have the right to form a family, in whose formation and development the woman and man enjoy equal rights and duties and owe one another mutual understanding and reciprocal respect.
2. The State shall guarantee the protection of the family. The good of the family in unalienable and unattachable, in accordance with the law.
3. The State shall promote and protect the organization of the family on the basis of the institution of marriage between a man and a woman. The law shall establish the requirements to enter into it, the formalities of its celebration, its personal and patrimonial effects, the causes of separation or dissolution, and the regime of the property, rights, and duties between the spouses.
4. Religious marriages shall have civil effects in terms established by law, without prejudice to that dictated in international treaties.
5. The singular and stable union between a man and a woman, free from matrimonial impediment, that form a real home, creates rights and duties in their personal and patrimonial relationships, in accordance with the law.
6. Maternity, whether the social condition or the civil state of the woman, shall enjoy the protection of the public powers and causes the right to official assistance in the case of need.
7. All persons have the right to have their personality, their own first name, and the surnames of their father and mother recognized, and to know the identities of the same.
8. All persons have the right from their birth to be inscribed without payment in the civil register or in the book of foreigners and to obtain the public documents that prove their identity, in accordance with the law.
9. All sons and daughters are equal under the law, have equal rights and duties, and shall enjoy the same opportunities for social, spiritual, and physical development. All mentions of the nature of parentage are prohibited in the civil registers and in all identity documents.
10. The State promotes responsible paternity and maternity. The father and the mother, even after separation and divorce, have the shared and non-renounceable duty to feed, raise, train, educate, support, and provide safety and assistance to their sons and daughters. The law shall establish the necessary and appropriate methods to guarantee the effect of these obligations.
11. The State recognizes work at home as an economic activity that creates aggregate value and produces social richness and well-being, therefore it shall be incorporated into the formulation and execution of public and social policies.
12. The State shall guarantee, through the law, safe and effective policies for adoption.
… (Art. 55) - SpanishLa familia es el fundamento de la sociedad y el espacio básico para el desarrollo integral de las personas. Se constituye por vínculos naturales o jurídicos, por la decisión libre de un hombre y una mujer de contraer matrimonio o por la voluntad responsable de conformarla.
1) Toda persona tiene derecho a constituir una familia, en cuya formación y desarrollo la mujer y el hombre gozan de iguales derechos y deberes y se deben comprensión mutua y respeto recíproco;
2) El Estado garantizará la protección de la familia. El bien de familia es inalienable e inembargable, de conformidad con la ley;
3) El Estado promoverá y protegerá la organización de la familia sobre la base de la institución del matrimonio entre un hombre y una mujer. La ley establecerá los requisitos para contraerlo, las formalidades para su celebración, sus efectos personales y patrimoniales, las causas de separación o de disolución, el régimen de bienes y los derechos y deberes entre los cónyuges;
4) Los matrimonios religiosos tendrán efectos civiles en los términos que establezca la ley, sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en los tratados internacionales;
5) La unión singular y estable entre un hombre y una mujer, libres de impedimento matrimonial, que forman un hogar de hecho, genera derechos y deberes en sus relaciones personales y patrimoniales, de conformidad con la ley;
6) La maternidad, sea cual fuere la condición social o el estado civil de la mujer, gozará de la protección de los poderes públicos y genera derecho a la asistencia oficial en caso de desamparo;
7) Toda persona tiene derecho al reconocimiento de su personalidad, a un nombre propio, al apellido del padre y de la madre y a conocer la identidad de los mismos;
8) Todas las personas tienen derecho desde su nacimiento a ser inscritas gratuitamente en el registro civil o en el libro de extranjería y a obtener los documentos públicos que comprueben su identidad, de conformidad con la ley;
9) Todos los hijos son iguales ante la ley, tienen iguales derechos y deberes y disfrutarán de las mismas oportunidades de desarrollo social, espiritual y físico. Se prohíbe toda mención sobre la naturaleza de la filiación en los registros civiles y en todo documento de identidad;
10) El Estado promueve la paternidad y maternidad responsables. El padre y la madre, aun después de la separación y el divorcio, tienen el deber compartido e irrenunciable de alimentar, criar, formar, educar, mantener, dar seguridad y asistir a sus hijos e hijas. La ley establecerá las medidas necesarias y adecuadas para garantizar la efectividad de estas obligaciones;
11) El Estado reconoce el trabajo del hogar como actividad económica que crea valor agregado y produce riqueza y bienestar social, por lo que se incorporará en la formulación y ejecución de las políticas públicas y sociales;
12) El Estado garantizará, mediante ley, políticas seguras y efectivas para la adopción;
… (Art. 55)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe public powers enact [élaborent] and implement the policies designed [destinées] for persons and for categories of specific needs. To this effect, it sees notably:
• to respond to [traiter] and provide for the vulnerability of certain categories of women and of mothers, of children, and of elderly persons;
… (Art. 34) - Arabicتقوم السّلطات العمومية بوضع وتفعيل سياسات موجّهة إلى الأشخاص والفئات من ذوي الاحتياجات الخصوصية ولهذا الغرض، تسهر خصوصاً على ما يلي:
• معالجة الأوضاع الهشّة لفئات من النّساء والأمّهات، وللأطفال والأشخاص المسنّين ،
… (الفصل 34)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
1. The family is the foundation of society. The family, fatherhood, motherhood and childhood are protected by society and the State.
2. Respecting and caring for their father and mother is a sacred duty of children.
... (Art. 20) - Russian
1. Семья – основа общества. Семья, отцовство, материнство и детство находятся под охраной общества и государства.
2. Уважение и забота об отце, матери – священный долг детей.
... (Статья 20) - Kyrgyz
1. Үй-бүлө – коомдун негизи. Үй-бүлө, аталык, энелик, балалык коомдун жана мамлекеттин коргоосунда турат.
2. Атаны, энени урматтоо жана камкордук көрүү – балдардын ыйык парзы.
... (20-берене)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following rights of persons are recognized and guaranteed:
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20. The right to personal and family intimacy.
… (Art. 66) - SpanishSe reconoce y garantizará a las personas:
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20. El derecho a la intimidad personal y familiar.
… (Art. 66)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe Republic provides particular care and protection for the family. The legal relations in marriage, the family and cohabitation are regulated by law. Parents have the right and duty to provide for the nurturing and education of their children. Children are responsible for the care of their old and infirm parents. The Republic provides particular protection for parentless children and children without parental care. (Art. 40)
- MacedonianРепубликата му обезбедува посебна грижа и заштита на семејството. Правните односи во бракот, семејството и вонбрачната заедница се уредуваат со закон. Родителите имаат право и должност да се грижат за издржување и воспитување на децата. Децата се должни да се грижат за старите и изнемоштени родители. Републиката им обезбедува посебна заштита на децата без родители и децата без родителска грижа. (Член 40)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishAll persons are entitled to Social Security as a nonprofit public service to guarantee health and protection in contingencies of maternity, fatherhood, illness, invalidity, catastrophic illness, disability, special needs, occupational risks, loss of employment, unemployment, old age, widowhood, loss of parents, housing, burdens deriving from family life, and any other social welfare circumstances. The State has the obligation and responsibility of ensuring the efficacy of this right, creating a universal and complete Social Security system, with joint, unitary, efficient and participatory financing from direct and indirect contributions. The lack of ability to contribute shall not be ground for excluding persons from protection by the system. … (Art. 86)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a la seguridad social como servicio público de carácter no lucrativo, que garantice la salud y asegure protección en contingencias de maternidad, paternidad, enfermedad, invalidez, enfermedades catastróficas, discapacidad, necesidades especiales, riesgos laborales, pérdida de empleo, desempleo, vejez, viudedad, orfandad, vivienda, cargas derivadas de la vida familiar y cualquier otra circunstancia de previsión social. El Estado tiene la obligación de asegurar la efectividad de este derecho, creando un sistema de seguridad social universal, integral, de financiamiento solidario, unitario, eficiente y participativo, de contribuciones directas o indirectas. La ausencia de capacidad contributiva no será motivo para excluir a las personas de su protección. … (Art. 86)
Marriage and Family Life
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(3) The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring that –
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(h) the evolution and promotion of family life is encouraged. (Sec. 17)
Marriage and Family Life
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9. Social Sector
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(i) Maternal and child welfare;
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(l) Welfare of children, youths, women, the disabled, the aged and the homeless;
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(u) Registration of births and deaths.
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11. Judicial Sector
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(d) Civil Laws and procedures including contract, arbitration, actionable wrong, insolvency, trust and trustees, administrator and receiver, family laws, guardians and wards, transfer of property and inheritance;…
… (Schedule One, Union Legislative List [Section 96]) - Burmese
၉။ လူမှုရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဈ) မိခင်နှင့်ကလေးစောင့်ရှောက်ရေး၊
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(ဌ) ကလေးသူငယ်များ၊ လူငယ်များ၊ အမျိုးသမီးများ၊ မသန်မစွမ်းသူများ၊ သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများ၊ အခြေအနေမဲ့များအား စောင့်ရှောက်ရေး၊
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(ပ) မွေးဖွားခြင်းနှင့် သေဆုံးခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ မှတ်ပုံတင်ရေး။
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၁၁။ တရားစီရင်ရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဃ) တရားမဥပဒေများ၊ ကျင့်ထုံးများအပါအဝင်၊ ပဋိညာဉ်၊ အနုညာတ စီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်ရေး၊ တရားစွဲဆိုပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နစ်နာချက်များ၊ လူမွဲအဖြစ်ခံယူခြင်း၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံခြင်းနှင့် ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံထားသဖြင့် စီမံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသူများ၊ အမွေထိန်းနှင့်ပစ္စည်းထိန်း၊ မိသားစုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ၊ အုပ်ထိန်းသူများနှင့် အုပ်ထိန်းခံရသူများ၊ ပစ္စည်းလွှဲပြောင်းခြင်း၊ အမွေဆက်ခံရေး၊...
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe children born in or out of matrimony and the adopted [ones], have equal rights before their parents. [It] is the obligation of these to give their children protection, assistance, education and security.
Any description [calificación] concerning the nature of the affiliation will not be consigned in the records of the Civil Registry, nor will the civil status of the parents be expressed in the birth certificates [partidas].
Every person has the right to have a name to be identified [with]. The secondary law [ley secundaria] will regulate this matter.
The law will determine likewise the forms of investigating and establishing the paternity. (Art. 36) - SpanishLos hijos nacidos dentro o fuera de matrimonio y los adoptivos, tienen iguales derechos frente a sus padres. Es obligación de éstos dar a sus hijos protección, asistencia, educación y seguridad.
No se consignará en las actas del Registro Civil ninguna calificación sobre la naturaleza de la filiación, ni se expresará en las partidas de nacimiento el estado civil de los padres.
Toda persona tiene derecho a tener un nombre que la identifique. La ley secundaria regulará esta materia.
La ley determinará asimismo las formas de investigar y establecer la paternidad. (Art. 36)