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Obligations of the State
- English…
(3) The civic rights, duties and interests of every person and community shall be protected and determined by the courts of law or other state agencies established by or under the law.
… (Art. 13)
Obligations of the State
- English… No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. (Amendment XIV, Sec. 1)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishAll citizens shall be assured of human worth and dignity and have the right to pursue happiness. It shall be the duty of the State to confirm and guarantee the fundamental and inviolable human rights of individuals. (Art. 10)
- Korean모든 국민은 인간으로서의 존엄과 가치를 가지며, 행복을 추구할 권리를 가진다. 국가는 개인이 가지는 불가침의 기본적 인권을 확인하고 이를 보장할 의무를 진다. (제10조)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishMontenegro shall guarantee and protect rights and liberties.
The rights and liberties shall be inviolable.
… (Art. 6) - MontenegrinCrna Gora jemči i štiti prava i slobode.
Prava i slobode su nepovredivi.
… (Član 6)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe Equatoguinean State respects the principles of International Law and reaffirms its adherence to the rights and obligations that emanate from the International Organizations and Organs to which it has adhered. (Art. 8)
- SpanishEl Estado ecuatoguineano acata los principios del Derecho Internacional y reafirma su adhesión a los derechos y obligaciones que emanan de las Organizaciones y Organismos Internacionales a los que se ha adherido. (Art. 8)
- FrenchL'État équatoguinéen respecte les principes du droit international et réaffirme son adhésion aux droits et obligations qui sont fixés par les organisations et organismes internationaux dont il est membre. (Art. 8)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe State must take all practical measures to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms enshrined in Chapter 45 and to promote their full realisation and fulfilment. (Sec. 11)
Obligations of the State
- English… Amending fundamental rights of the people shall be permitted only to improve them. … (Art. 149)
- Dari... تعدیل حقوق اساسی اتباع صرف به منظور بهبود حقوق آنان مجاز می باشد. ... (مادۀ ۱۴۹)
- Pashtoد اتباعو د اساسي حقوقو تعديل يوازي د هغوى د حقوقو د ښيگڼې په منظور جواز لري. ... (۱۴۹ ماده)
Obligations of the State
- English(a) Every citizen shall enjoy the right of equality, the right of liberty and the right of justice, as prescribed in this Constitution.
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(d) Necessary law shall be enacted to make citizens’ freedoms, rights, benefits, responsibilities and restrictions effective, steadfast and complete. (Sec. 21) - Burmese(က) နိုင်ငံသားတိုင်းသည် ဤဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေတွင် သတ်မှတ်ပြဌာန်းထားသည့် တန်းတူညီမျှမှု အခွင့်အရေး၊ လွတ်လပ်မှုအခွင့်အရေး၊ တရားမျှတမှု အခွင့် အရေးတို့ ခံစားခွင့်ရှိသည်၊
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(ဃ) နိုင်ငံသားများ၏ လွတ်လပ်ခွင့်၊ လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်၊ ခံစားခွင့်၊ တာဝန်နှင့် တားမြစ်ချက်များ ထိရောက်ခိုင်မာပြည့်စုံစေရန် လိုအပ်သောဥပဒေ ပြဌာန်းရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၁)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe fundamental tasks of the state are:
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b) To guarantee the fundamental rights and freedoms and respect for the principles of a democratic state based on the rule of law;
... (Art. 9) - PortugueseSão tarefas fundamentais do Estado:
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b) Garantir os direitos e liberdades fundamentais e o respeito pelos princípios do Estado de direito democrático;
... (Art. 9)
Obligations of the State
- English
The Gabonese people,
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Solemnly affirm their adherence to the rights of Man and to the fundamental freedoms such as they derive from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 and [from] the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, consecrated by the African Charter of the Rights of Man and of Peoples of 1981, and by the National Charter of Liberties of 1990;
Solemnly proclaim their adherence to their profound and traditional social values, to their cultural, material and spiritual patrimony, to respect for the freedoms, the rights and the duties of the citizen.
… (Preamble) - French
Le peuple gabonais,
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Affirme solennellement son attachement aux droits de l’Homme et aux libertés fondamentales tels qu’ils résultent de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme et du citoyen de 1789 et de la Déclaration Universelle des Droits de l’Homme de 1948, consacrés par la Charte Africaine des Droits de l’Homme et des Peuples de 1981, et par la Charte Nationale des Libertés de 1990;
Proclame solennellement son attachement à ses valeurs sociales profondes et traditionnelles, à son patrimoine culturel, matériel et spirituel, au respect des libertés, des droits et des devoirs du citoyen.
… (Préambule)