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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishMother and child shall enjoy special protection.
The state shall create the conditions that encourage childbirth. (Art. 73) - MontenegrinMajka i dijete uživaju posebnu zaštitu.
Država stvara uslove kojima se podstiče rađanje djece. (Član 73)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the natural and moral base of society.
The State and the Autonomous Collectivities have a duty to see to the well-being of the family. (Art. 41) - Arabicالأسرة هي الأساس الطبيعي والأخلاقي للمجتمع.
يترتب على الدولة والجماعات المستقلة تأمين رفاه الأسرة. (المادة 41) - FrenchLa famille est la base naturelle et morale de la société.
L'Etat et les Collectivités Autonomes ont le devoir de veiller au bien-être de la famille. (Art. 41)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall register every birth, marriage and death occurring in Uganda. (Art. 18)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (4), (5) and (7), 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 sex, 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) 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 subsection (3) (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 which is the personal law of persons of that description;
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Marriage and Family Life
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(b) The Union shall enact necessary laws for Civil Services personnel to have security and sufficiency of food, clothing and shelter, to get maternity benefits for married women in service, and to ease livelihood for welfare of retired Service personnel. (Sec. 26) - Burmese
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(ခ) နိုင်ငံတော်သည် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ၏ လုပ်ငန်းခွင်အာမခံချက်ရရှိရေး၊ စားဝတ်နေမှု ဖူလုံရေး၊ အိမ်ထောင်ရှင်အမျိုးသမီးဝန်ထမ်းများ မီးဖွားခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ အကျိုးခံစားခွင့်ရရှိရေး နှင့် အငြိမ်းစားဝန်ထမ်းများ စားဝတ်နေမှု သက်သာချောင်ချိရေးတို့အတွက် လိုအပ် သည့် ဥပဒေများ ပြဌာန်းရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၆)
Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Everyone has the right for himself and his family to have an adequately sized dwelling that provides hygienic and comfortable conditions and preserves personal and family privacy.
… (Art. 65) - Portuguese1. Todos têm direito, para si e para a sua família, a uma habitação de dimensão adequada, em condições de higiene e conforto e que preserve a intimidade pessoal e a privacidade familiar.
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the nucleus of society, and is founded on religion, morality, and patriotism. The State shall ensure its cohesion, stability and the establishment of its values. (Art. 10)
- Arabicالأسرة نواة المجتمع، قوامها الدّين، والأخلاق، والوطنية. تحرص الدّولة على تماسكها واستقرارها وترسيخ قيمها. (المادّة 10)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWHEREAS the People of Antigua and Barbuda-
a. proclaim that they are a sovereign nation founded upon principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God, the dignity and worth of the human person, the entitlement of all persons to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, the position of the family in a society of free men and women and free institutions;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEvery person has the right to his own name, to the summates of his father and mother, and to know the identity of the latter. The State guarantees the right to investigates maternity and paternity. All persons have the right to be registered free of charge with the Civil Registry Office after birth, and to obtain public documents constituting evidence of their biological identity, in accordance with law. Such documents shall not contain any mention classifying the parental relationship. (Art. 56)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a un nombre propio, al apellido del padre y al de la madre, y a conocer la identidad de los mismos. El Estado garantizará el derecho a investigar la maternidad y la paternidad.
Toda persona tiene derecho a ser inscritas gratuitamente en el registro civil después de su nacimiento y a obtener documentos públicos que comprueben su identidad biológica, de conformidad con la ley. Éstos no contendrán mención alguna que califique la filiación. (Art. 56)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall protect working women by providing safe and healthful working conditions, taking into account their maternal functions, and such facilities and opportunities that will enhance their welfare and enable them to realize their full potential in the service of the nation. (Art. XIII, Sec. 14)
- FilipinoDapat pangalagaan ng Estado ang mga kababaihang nagtatrabaho sa pamamagitan ng paglalaan ng ligtas at nakapagpapalusog na mga kalagayan sa pagtatrabaho, na nagsasaalang-alang ng kanilang mga gawain bilang ina, at ng mga kaluwagan at mga pagkakataon na nagpapatingkad sa kanilang ikagagaling at ikagiginhawa upang matamo ang kanilang ganap na potensyal sa paglilingkod sa bansa. (Art. XIII, Seksyon 14)