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Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishAll citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with Islamic criteria. (Art. 20)
- Persianهمه افراد ملت اعم از زن و مرد یکسان در حمایت قانون قرار دارند و از همه حقوق انسانی، سیاسی، اقتصادی، اجتماعی و فرهنگی با رعایت موازین اسلام برخوردارند. (اصل 20)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishEvery Lebanese has the right to public employment, without any distinction, except on qualification and merit according to the conditions laid down by the law. … (Art. 12)
- Arabicلكلّ لبناني الحقّ في تولّي الوظائف العامّة لا ميزة لأحد على الآخر إلا من حيث الاستحقاق والجدارة حسب الشّروط التي ينصّ عليها القانون. ... (المادّة 12)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishIndividuals have the right to address public authorities. (Art. 46)
- Arabicلكل فرد الحق في مخاطبة السلطات العامة. (المادة 46)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishEvery Turk has the right to enter public service.
No criteria other than the qualifications for the office concerned shall be taken into consideration for recruitment into public service. (Art. 70) - TurkishHer Türk, kamu hizmetlerine girme hakkına sahiptir.
Hizmete alınmada, görevin gerektirdiği niteliklerden başka hiçbir ayırım gözetilemez. (Madde 70)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- English…
II. Citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan have the right to serve in government organs. Officials to government organs are appointed from the citizens of the Republic of Azerbaijan. … (Art. 55) - Azerbaijani…
II. Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşları dövlət orqanlarında qulluq etmək imkanına malikdirlər. Dövlət orqanlarının vəzifəli şəxsləri Azərbaycan Respublikasının vətəndaşları sırasından təyin edilirlər. … (Maddə 55)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishCitizens enjoy equal rights in all spheres of State and public activity. (Art. 65)
- Korean공민은 국가사회생활의 모든 분야에서 누구나 다 같은 권리를 가진다. (제65조)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishThe Union shall, upon specified qualifications being fulfilled, in appointing or assigning duties to civil service personnel, not discriminate for or against any citizen of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, based on race, birth, religion, and sex. However, nothing in this Section shall prevent appointment of men to the positions that are suitable for men only. (Sec. 352)
- Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် အလုပ်အကိုင်ခန့်ထားရာတွင်ဖြစ်စေ၊ နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းရွေးချယ် တာဝန်ပေးရာတွင် ဖြစ်စေ သတ်မှတ်သော အရည်အချင်းနှင့်ပြည်စုံပါက ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော်၏ မည်သည့်နိုင်ငံသားကိုမျှ လူမျိုး၊ ဇာတိ၊ ကိုးကွယ်ရာဘာသာ သာသနာ၊ အမျိုးသား၊ အမျိုးသမီးကို အကြောင်းပြုလျက် ရာထူးရွေးချယ်ခန့်ထားခြင်းကို ခွဲခြားမှုမပြုရ။ သို့ရာတွင် အမျိူးသားများနှင့်သာ လျော်ကန်သင့်မြတ်သည့် ရာထူးတာဝန်များအတွက် အမျိုးသားများအား ရေးချယ်ခန့်ထားခြင်းကို ဤပုဒ်မအရ အဟန့်အတား မဖြစ်စေရ။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၅၂)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- EnglishThe state shall provide women with all opportunities enabling them to effectively and fully contribute to the political, economic, social and cultural life, and the state shall work on removing the restrictions that prevent their development and participation in building society. (Art. 23)
- Arabicتوفّر الدولة للمرأة جميع الفرص التي تتيح لها المساهمة الفعالة والكاملة في الحياة السياسية والإقتصادية والإجتماعية والثقافية، وتعمل على إزالة القيود التي تمنع تطورها ومشاركتها في بناء المجتمع. (المادّة 23)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- English
All citizens of the Republic of Uzbekistan shall have the right to participate in the management and administration of public and state affairs, both directly and through representation. They may exercise this right by way of self-government, referendums and democratic formation of state bodies, as well as public control over activities of state bodies.
… (Art. 36) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasining fuqarolari jamiyat va davlat ishlarini boshqarishda bevosita hamda o‘z vakillari orqali ishtirok etish huquqiga ega. Bunday ishtirok etish o‘zini o‘zi boshqarish, referendumlar o‘tkazish va davlat organlarini demokratik tarzda shakllantirish, shuningdek davlat organlarining faoliyati ustidan jamoatchilik nazorati vositasida amalga oshiriladi. … (36-modda)
Participation in Public Life and Institutions
- English…
(2) Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life.
… (Art. 28) - Bengali…
(২) রাষ্ট্র ও গণজীবনের সর্বস্তরে নারী পুরুষের সমান অধিকার লাভ করিবেন।
… (অনুচ্ছেদ ২৮)