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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
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19. A person shall not be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence nor to unlawful attacks on the person’s honour and reputation.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༡༩) མི་ཅིག་གི་རང་གསང་ ཡང་ན་ བཟའ་ཚང་ སྡོད་གནས་ འཕྲིན་འབྲེལ་བཅས་ལུ་བཙན་དབང་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྲིམས་ འགལ་གྱི་ ཐེ་གཏོགས་དང་ ཁོའམ་མོ་རའི་ཆེ་བསྟོད་དང་སྙན་གྲགས་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་གནོད་བཀལ་གྱི་ དབང་ལུ་ བསྡུ་ནི་ མེད།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Marriage and Family Life
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Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Constitution, the following matters are of the exclusive competence of the Central Power:
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36. legislation concerning[,] notably;
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h. … the protection of mother and child,
… (Art. 202) - French
Sans préjudice des autres dispositions de la présente Constitution, les matières suivantes sont de la compétence exclusive du pouvoir central:
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36. la législation notamment concernant:
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h) … la protection maternelle et infantile,
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Marriage and Family Life
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(2) Women have the same rights as men regarding the custody and guardianship of children, but an Act of Parliament may regulate how those rights are to be exercised.
… (Sec. 80)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the right of its citizens and their families in an emergency of in case of disease, disability and old age. … (Basic Law, Art. 27)
- Arabicتضمن الدولة حق المواطن وأسرته في حالة الطوارئ والمرض والعجز والشيخوخة. ... (النظام الأساسي ، المادة 27)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The right to honour, to personal and family privacy and to the own image is guaranteed.
… (Sec. 18) - Spanish1. Se garantiza el derecho al honor, a la intimidad personal y familiar y a la propia imagen.
… (Art. 18)
Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Every child has the right:
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c. To know and be cared for by his or her parents or legal guardians;
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4. Children born out of wedlock shall have the same rights as children born of wedlock.
… (Art. 36) - Amharic1. ማንኛውም ሕጻን የሚከተሉት መብቶች አሉት፤
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ሐ/ ወላጆቹን ወይም በሕግ የማሳደግ መብት ያላቸውን ሰዎች የማወቅና የእነሱንም እንክብካቤ የማግኘት፣
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4. ከጋብቻ ውጭ የተወለዱ ሕጻናት በጋብቻ ከተወለዱ ሕጻናት ጋር እኩል መብት አላቸው፡፡
… (አንቀጽ 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishI. The marriage between a man and a woman is formed by legal bond and is based on equality of the rights and duties of the spouses.
II. The free unions or de facto unions, which meet the conditions of stability and singularity and that are maintained between a man and a women without legal impediment, shall have the same effects as a civil marriage, both in the personal and property relations of the couple as well as with respect to adopted children or to children born to the couple. (Art. 63) - SpanishI. El matrimonio entre una mujer y un hombre se constituye por vínculos jurídicos y se basa en la igualdad de derechos y deberes de los cónyuges.
II. Las uniones libres o de hecho que reúnan condiciones de estabilidad y singularidad, y sean mantenidas entre una mujer y un hombre sin impedimento legal, producirán los mismos efectos que el matrimonio civil, tanto en las relaciones personales y patrimoniales de los convivientes como en lo que respecta a las hijas e hijos adoptados o nacidos de aquéllas. (Art. 63)
Marriage and Family Life
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2. It is exclusively incumbent upon the National Parliament to make laws on:
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f) The status and capacity of the person, family law and inheritance law;
… (Sec. 95) - Tetum…
2. Parlamentu Nasionl de'it mak halo lejizlasaun kona-ba:
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f) Estadu no kapasidade ema nian, direitu família nian no mós jerasaun ne’ebé sei mai;
… (Art. 95) - Portuguese…
2. Compete exclusivamente ao Parlamento Nacional legislar sobre:
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f) Estado e capacidade das pessoas e direito da família e das sucessões;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishA family Code must be drawn up to ensure protection and respect for the rights of the family and to define procedures of the search for affiliation. Courts and other Government agencies charged with the protection of these rights must be accessible free of charge at the level of the smallest territorial division. (Art. 262)
- FrenchUn Code de la Famille doit être élaboré en vue d'assurer la protection et le respect des droits de la Famille et de définir les formes de la recherche de la paternité. Les Tribunaux et autres Organismes de l'Etat chargés de la protection de ces droits doivent être accessibles gratuitement au niveau de la plus petite Collectivité Territoriale. (Art. 262)