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Marriage and Family Life
- English
Everyone has the right to the protection of his health, that of the family environment [medio familiar] and that of the community, as well as the duty to contribute to its promotion [promoción] and defense. … (Art. 7)
- Spanish
Todos tienen derecho a la protección de su salud, la del medio familiar y la de la comunidad así como el deber de contribuir a su promoción y defensa. … (Art. 7)
Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Everyone has the right to form a family and to marry under conditions of full equality.
2. The law shall regulate the requisites for and the effects of marriage and its dissolution by death or divorce, regardless of the form in which it was entered into.
3. Spouses have equal rights and duties in relation to their civil and political capacity and to the maintenance and education of their children.
4. Children born outside wedlock may not be the object of any discrimination for that reason, and neither the law, nor official departments or services may employ discriminatory terms in relation to filiation.
5. Parents have the right and the duty to educate and maintain their children.
6. Children may not be separated from their parents, save when the latter do not fulfil their fundamental duties towards them, and then always by judicial decision.
7. Adoption shall be regulated and protected in accordance with the law, which must lay down swift forms for completion of the respective procedural requirements. (Art. 36) - Portuguese1. Todos têm o direito de constituir família e de contrair casamento em condições de plena igualdade.
2. A lei regula os requisitos e os efeitos do casamento e da sua dissolução, por morte ou divórcio, independentemente da forma de celebração.
3. Os cônjuges têm iguais direitos e deveres quanto à capacidade civil e política e à manutenção e educação dos filhos.
4. Os filhos nascidos fora do casamento não podem, por esse motivo, ser objecto de qualquer discriminação e a lei ou as repartições oficiais não podem usar designações discriminatórias relativas à filiação.
5. Os pais têm o direito e o dever de educação e manutenção dos filhos.
6. Os filhos não podem ser separados dos pais, salvo quando estes não cumpram os seus deveres fundamentais para com eles e sempre mediante decisão judicial.
7. A adopção é regulada e protegida nos termos da lei, a qual deve estabelecer formas céleres para a respectiva tramitação. (Art. 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
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၊...
... (ဇယား ၁၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဥပဒေပြုစာရင်း၊ [ပုဒ်မ ၉၆ ကိုရည်ညွှန်းသည်])
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family, natural and fundamental element of the society, is protected by the State.
All individuals have the right to found a family and to transmit by inheritance their personal assets. (Art. 20) - FrenchLa famille, élément naturel et fondamental de la société, est protégée par l'Etat.
Tout individu a le droit de fonder une famille et de transmettre en héritage ses biens personnels. (Art. 20)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWHEREAS the People of Saint Lucia-
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(e) realise that human dignity requires respect for spiritual values; for private family life and property; and the enjoyment of an adequate standard of economic and social well-being dependent upon the resources of the State;
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The public authorities shall respect and protect the intimate, family and private life.
… (Art. 26) - Romanian(1) Autorităţile publice respectă şi ocrotesc viaţa intimă, familială şi privată.
… (Art. 26)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWomen and men have equal rights and responsibilities in the economic, political, cultural, occupational, social, and familial domains, as well as in any other domain. The State guarantees that both will be offered the same opportunities and possibilities.
… (Art. 43) - SpanishLa mujer y el hombre tienen iguales derechos y responsabilidades en lo económico, político, cultural, laboral, social, familiar y en cualquier otro ámbito. El Estado garantiza que se ofrezcan a ambos las mismas oportunidades y posibilidades.
… (Art. 43)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall defend:
(1) The right of spouses to found a family in accordance with their religious convictions and the demands of responsible parenthood;
(2) The right of children to assistance, including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation and other conditions prejudicial to their development;
(3) The right of the family to a family living wage and income; and
(4) The right of families or family associations to participate in the planning and implementation of policies and programs that affect them. (Art. XV, Sec. 3) - FilipinoDapat isanggalang ng Estado:
(1) Ang karapatan ng mga mag-asawa na magpamilya nang naaayon sa kanilang pananalig na panrelihiyon at sa mga kinakailangan ng responsableng pagpapamilya;
(2) Ang karapatan ng mga bata na mabigyan ng kalinga, kasama ang wastong pagaalaga at nutrisyon at natatanging proteksyon sa lahat ng mga anyo ng pagpapabaya, pagaabuso, pagmamalupit, pagsasamantala, at iba pang kondisyong nakapipinsala sa kanilang pag-unlad;
(3) Ang karapatan ng pamilya sa sahod at kita na sapat ikabuhay ng pamilya; at
(4) Ang karapatan ng mga pamilya o ang mga asosasyon nito na lumahok sa pagpaplano at pagpapatupad ng mga patakaran at mga programa na nakaapekto sa kanila. (Art. XV, Seksyon 3)
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
- EnglishThe "family property", its constitution, conservation, enjoyment, and transmission shall be protected by special legislation. (Art. 49)
- SpanishEl "bien de familia", su constitución, conservación, goce y transmisión, serán objeto de una legislación protectora especial. (Art. 49)