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Political Rights and Association
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3. Women shall have the right to participate equally with men in public life.
4. All levels of government shall:
a. promote women participation in public life and their representation in the legislative and executive organs by at least twenty-five per cent4 as an affirmative action to redress imbalances created by history, customs, and traditions;
… (Art. 16)
Political Rights and Association
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6. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to vote.
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12. A Bhutanese citizen shall have the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association, other than membership of associations that are harmful to the peace and unity of the country, and shall have the right not to be compelled to belong to any association.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༦) འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
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༡༢) རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ གཅིག་མཐུན་ལུ་གནོད་པའི་མཐུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་འཐུས་མི་མ་ཡིན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཞི་བདེ་འཛོམས་འདུའི་དལ་དབང་དང་ མཐུན་ཚོགས་དལ་དབང་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ ནན་བསྐུལ་ཐོག་ལས་ མཐུན་ཚོགས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ཁོངས་སུ་ ཐབས་མེད་གཏོགས་བཅུག་ནི་མེད་པའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད།
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll citizens have the right to freely constitute associations, groups, societies and political parties in accordance with the texts in force.
… (Art. 14) - FrenchTous les citoyens ont le droit de constituer librement des associations, des groupements, des sociétés et des partis politiques conformément aux textes en vigueur.
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Political Rights and Association
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In the Republic of Uzbekistan, public associations are recognized as trade unions, political parties, scientific societies, women’s, veterans’ and youth leagues and persons with disabilities, professional associations, mass movements and other organizations of citizens.
... (Art. 70) - Uzbek
O‘zbekiston Respublikasida kasaba uyushmalari, siyosiy partiyalar, olimlarning jamiyatlari, xotin-qizlar tashkilotlari, faxriylar, yoshlar va nogironligi bo‘lgan shaxslar tashkilotlari, ijodiy uyushmalar, ommaviy harakatlar hamda fuqarolarning boshqa birlashmalari jamoat birlashmalari sifatida e’tirof etiladi.
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll the citizens have the right to freely associate themselves in political parties and or movements to participate in, through democratic methods, the election of the authorities specified in this Constitution and in the laws, as well as in the orientation of the national policy.
… (Art. 125) - SpanishTodos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a asociarse libremente en partidos y o en movimientos políticos para concurrir, por métodos democráticos, a la elección de las autoridades previstas en esta Constitución y en las leyes, así como en la orientación de la política nacional.
... (Art. 125)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll persons have the right to form associations, for any purpose whatsoever, provided they do not form an association which the law has declared unlawful. (Art. 39)
- SpanishTodas las personas tienen el derecho de asociarse, cualquiera sea el objeto que persigan, siempre que no constituyan una asociación ilícita declarada por la ley. (Art. 39)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishA person shall enjoy the liberty to unite and form an association, co-operative, union, organisation, community, or any other group. ... (Sec. 42)
- Thaiบุคคลย่อมมีเสรีภาพในการรวมกันเป็นสมาคม สหกรณ์ สหภาพ องค์กร ชุมชน หรือหมู่คณะอื่น … (มาตรา ๔๒)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe enjoyment, and the exercise of the civil and political rights constitute the quality of the citizen. The suspension or the loss of these rights is regulated by the law. (Art. 16)
- FrenchLa jouissance, l'exercice des droits civils et politiques constituent la qualité du citoyen. La suspension et la perte de ces droits sont réglées par la loi. (Art. 16)
Political Rights and Association
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Peruvians greater than eighteen years [of age] are citizens. For the exercise of citizenship electoral inscription is required. (Art. 30)
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Son ciudadanos los peruanos mayores de dieciocho años. Para el ejercicio de la ciudadanía se requiere la inscripción electoral. (Art. 30)
Political Rights and Association
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(3) Every citizen of the Czech Republic who has reached the age of eighteen has the right to vote. (1993 Constitution, Art. 18) - Czech…
(3) Právo volit má každý občan České republiky, který dosáhl věku 18 let. (Ústava 1993, Čl. 18)