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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State protects marriage, motherhood and the family. What is relative to civil status shall be determined by law.
... (Art. 56) - SpanishEl Estado protege el matrimonio, la maternidad y la familia. La Ley determinará lo relativo al estado civil.
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Marriage and Family Life
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VI. Women shall not be discriminated against or fired because of their civil status, because of pregnancy, because of their age or physical features, or because of the number of children they have. It is guaranteed that pregnant women and parents cannot be dismissed from employment until the child completes one year of age.
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VI. Las mujeres no podrán ser discriminadas o despedidas por su estado civil, situación de embarazo, edad, rasgos físicos o número de hijas o hijos. Se garantiza la inamovilidad laboral de las mujeres en estado de embarazo, y de los progenitores, hasta que la hija o el hijo cumpla un año de edad.
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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)
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The law establishes the rules concerning:
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- … the status [état] and the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
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La loi fixe les règles concernant :
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et les libéralités ;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe union in matrimony of a man and a woman is one of the fundamental components in the formation of a family. (Art. 52)
- SpanishLa unión en matrimonio del hombre y la mujer es uno de los componentes fundamentales en la formación de la familia. (Art. 52)
Marriage and Family Life
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It is the duty of the family, society, and the State to ensure children, adolescents, and young people, with absolute priority, the right to life, health, nourishment, education, leisure, professional training, culture, dignity, respect, freedom, and family and community life, as well as to guard them from all forms of negligence, discrimination, exploitation, violence, cruelty, and oppression.
Paragraph 1. The State shall promote full health assistance programmes for children, adolescents, and young people, the participation of non-governmental entities being allowed, by means of specific policies and with due regard to the following precepts:
I – allocation of a percentage of public health care funds to mother and child assistance;
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Paragraph 6. Children born inside or outside wedlock or adopted shall have the same rights and qualifications, any discriminatory designation of their filiation being forbidden.
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É dever da família, da sociedade e do Estado assegurar à criança, ao adolescente e ao jovem, com absoluta prioridade, o direito à vida, à saúde, à alimentação, à educação, ao lazer, à profissionalização, à cultura, à dignidade, ao respeito, à liberdade e à convivência familiar e comunitária, além de colocá-los a salvo de toda forma de negligência, discriminação, exploração, violência, crueldade e opressão.
§ 1º O Estado promoverá programas de assistência integral à saúde da criança, do adolescente e do jovem, admitida a participação de entidades não governamentais, mediante políticas específicas e obedecendo aos seguintes preceitos:
I - aplicação de percentual dos recursos públicos destinados à saúde na assistência materno-infantil;
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§ 6º - Os filhos, havidos ou não da relação do casamento, ou por adoção, terão os mesmos direitos e qualificações, proibidas quaisquer designações discriminatórias relativas à filiação.
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEvery individual has the right to honour, good name and reputation, protection of his or her public image and privacy of his or her personal and family life. (Sec. 36)
- TetumEma idaidak iha direitu ba onra, ba naran di’ak no ba reputasaun no direitu atu defende an rasik no la fó-sai ninia moris partikulár iha uma-kain laran. (Art. 36)
- PortugueseTodo o indivíduo tem direito à honra, ao bom nome e à reputação, à defesa da sua imagem e à reserva da sua vida privada e familiar. (Art. 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishMarriage is based on the free consent of a woman and a man. Each of the spouses has equal rights and duties in the marriage and family.
Parents are obliged to support their children until they attain the age of majority. Adult children are obliged to care for their parents who are incapable of work.
The family, childhood, motherhood and fatherhood are under the protection of the State. (Art. 51) - UkrainianШлюб грунтується на вільній згоді жінки і чоловіка. Кожен із подружжя має рівні права і обов'язки у шлюбі та сім'ї.
Батьки зобов'язані утримувати дітей до їх повноліття. Повнолітні діти зобов'язані піклуватися про своїх непрацездатних батьків.
Сім'я, дитинство, материнство і батьківство охороняються державою. (Стаття 51)
Marriage and Family Life
- Englisha. The property which a person possesses at the time of marriage or which may afterwards be acquired as a result of one’s own labors shall not be held for or otherwise applied to the liquidation of the debts or other obligations of the spouse, whether contracted before or after marriage; nor shall the property which by law is to be secured to a man or a woman be alienated or be controlled by that person’s spouse save by free and voluntary consent.
b. The Legislature shall enact laws to govern the devolution of estates and establish rights of inheritance and descent for spouses of both statutory and customary marriages so as to give adequate protection to surviving spouses and children of such marriages. (Art. 23)