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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishIt is recognised and declared that every person in Zambia has been and shall continue to be entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed, sex or marital status, but subject to the limitations contained in this Part8, to each and all of the following, namely:
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b. freedom of conscience, expression, assembly, movement and association;
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe right to elect and stand for elections shall be granted to every citizen of Montenegro of 18 years of age and above with at least a two-year residence in Montenegro.
The electoral right shall be exercised in elections.
The electoral right shall be general and equal.
Elections shall be free and direct, by secret ballot. (Art. 45) - MontenegrinPravo da bira i da bude biran ima državljanin Crne Gore koji je navršio 18 godina života i ima najmanje dvije godine prebivališta u Crnoj Gori.
Biračko pravo se ostvaruje na izborima.
Biračko pravo je opšte i jednako.
Izbori su slobodni i neposredni, a glasanje je tajno. (Član 45)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll Panamanians over eighteen years of age are citizens of the Republic, without regard to sex. (Art. 131)
- SpanishSon ciudadanos de la República todos los panameños mayores de dieciocho años, sin distinción de sexo. (Art. 131)
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.
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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
- English(1) Every person has the right to freedom of association, which includes the right to form, join or participate in the activities of an association of any kind.
… (Art. 36) - Swahili(1) Kila mtu ana haki ya uhuru wa kujumuika, ambayo hujumuisha haki ya kuunda, kujiunga au kushiriki katika shughuli za chama cha aina yoyote.
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Political Rights and Association
- English1. It is a fundamental principle of the State of Eritrea to guarantee its citizens broad and active participation in all political, economic, social and cultural life of the country.
2. Any act that violates the human rights of women or limits or otherwise thwarts their role and participation is prohibited.
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4. Pursuant to the provisions of this Constitution and laws enacted pursuant thereto, all Eritreans, without distinction, are guaranteed equal opportunity to participate in any position of leadership in the country.
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe citizens, without distinction of gender [sexo], have the right to participate in public matters, directly or through their representatives, in the form determined by this Constitution and the laws.
The access of women to public functions shall be promoted. (Art. 117) - SpanishLos ciudadanos, sin distinción de sexo, tienen el derecho a participar en los asuntos públicos, directamente o por medio de sus representantes, en la forma que determine esta Constitución y las leyes.
Se promoverá el acceso de la mujer a las funciones públicas. (Art. 117)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of assembly and association, that is to say, his right to assemble freely and associate with other persons and in particular to form or belong to associations for the advancement or protection of his interests.
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Political Rights and Association
- English1. Every citizen of Lesotho shall enjoy the right—
a. to take part in the conduct of public affairs, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
b. to vote or to stand for election at periodic elections under this Constitution under a system of universal and equal suffrage and secret ballot;
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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishSuffrage is universal, direct or indirect, free, equal and secret.
All Congolese being already eighteen (18) years of age and enjoying their civil and political rights are electors within the conditions established by the law. (Art. 6) - FrenchLe suffrage est universel, direct ou indirect, libre, égal et secret.
Sont électeurs dans les conditions fixées par la loi, tous les congolais âgés de dix-huit (18) ans révolus et jouissant de leurs droits civils et politiques. (Art. 6)