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Political Rights and Association
- English1. Except with his own consent, no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of peaceful assembly and association, that is to say, his right peacefully to assemble freely and associate with other persons and in particular to form or belong to trade unions or other associations for the promotion and protection of his interests.
… (Sec. 13)
Political Rights and Association
- English
1. Under this Constitution, the general will of the people shall be the basis of government and it shall be expressed through periodic elections.
2. A person shall have the right to vote by direct adult suffrage through secret ballot at an election if the person is:
a. A Bhutanese citizen as evidenced by a Citizenship Card;
b. Not less than eighteen years of age;
c. Registered in the civil registry of that constituency for not less than one year, prior to the date of the election; and
d. Not otherwise disqualified from voting under any law in force in Bhutan.
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
༡) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ གཞུང་གི་གཞི་གནས་འདི་ མི་སེར་སྤྱིར་གྱི་བསམ་དོན་ཨིནམ་དང་ བསམ་དོན་ འདི་ དུས་མཚམས་ཅན་གྱི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ཐོག་ལས་གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་དགོ།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་ནང་གསང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐོག་ལས་ ན་ལོན་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐད་ ཀར་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ མི་ཁུངས་ལག་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་སྟོན་ནི་ཡོད་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་དང།
ཁ༽ སྐྱེས་ལོ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ལས་མ་ཆུང་བ།
ག༽ བཙག་འཐུའི་ཚེས་གྲངས་ཀྱི་སྔ་གོང་ལས་ལོ་ངོ་གཅིག་ལས་མ་ཉུང་བར་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེའི་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་ མ་ཡིག་ནང་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པ། དང་།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཁྱདཚད་ ལས་ མ་འགལ་བ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishEveryone has the right to form associations, or become a member of an association, or withdraw from membership without prior permission. … (Art. 33)
- TurkishHerkes, önceden izin almaksızın dernek kurma ve bunlara üye olma ya da üyelikten çıkma hürriyetine sahiptir. … (Madde 33)
Political Rights and Association
- English
Freedom of political, union and any other form of association shall be guaranteed, as well as the right to stay out of any association.
... (Art. 55) - Serbian Cyrillic
Јемчи се слобода политичког, синдикалног и сваког другог удруживања и право да се остане изван сваког удружења.
... (Члан 55)
Political Rights and Association
- English
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13) The right to form associations, political parties or formations, unions [syndicats], companies [sociétés], establishments of social interest as well as religious communities, is guaranteed to all under the conditions established by the law;
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24) The State favors the equal access of women and of men to the electoral mandates as well as to the political and professional responsibilities. (Art. 1) - French
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13°) Le droit de former des associations, des partis ou formations politiques, des syndicats, des sociétés, des établissements d’intérêt social ainsi que des communautés religieuses, est garanti à tous dans les conditions fixées par la loi;
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24°) L'Etat favorise l'égal accès des femmes et des hommes aux mandats électoraux ainsi qu'aux responsabilités politiques et professionnelles. (Art. 1)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishMechanisms of participation of the people in exercise of their sovereignty are: the vote, the plebiscite, the referendum, the popular consultation, the open cabíldo [assembly], the legislative initiative, and the revocation of office. The law will regulate them.
... (Art. 103) - SpanishSon mecanismos de participación del pueblo en ejercicio de su soberanía: el voto, el plebiscito, el referendo, la consulta popular, el cabildo abierto, la iniciativa legislativa y la revocatoria del mandato. La ley los reglamentará.
... (Art. 103)
Political Rights and Association
- English...
2. The Trade Union of Vietnam, the Vietnam Peasants’ Association, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Women’s Union and the Vietnam War Veterans’ Association are socio-political organizations established on a voluntary basis to represent and protect the lawful and legitimate rights and interests of their members; and, together with other member organizations of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, coordinate and unify action within the Front.
… (Art. 9) - Vietnamese...
2. Công đoàn Việt Nam, Hội nông dân Việt Nam, Đoàn thanh niên cộng sản Hồ Chí Minh, Hội liên hiệp phụ nữ Việt Nam, Hội cựu chiến binh Việt Nam là các tổ chức chính trị - xã hội được thành lập trên cơ ở tự nguyện, đại diện và bảo vệ quyền, lợi ích hợp pháp, chính đáng của thành viên, hội viên tổ chức mình; cùng các tổ chức thành viên khác của Mặt trận phối hợp và thống nhất hành động trong Mặt trận Tổ quốc Việt Nam.
… (Điều 9)
Political Rights and Association
- English
(1) Every person has the right … to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;
… (Art. II, Sec. 1)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishCitizens of Ukraine have the right to freedom of association in political parties and public organisations for the exercise and protection of their rights and freedoms and for the satisfaction of their political, economic, social, cultural and other interests, with the exception of restrictions established by law in the interests of national security and public order, the protection of the health of the population or the protection of rights and freedoms of other persons.
... (Art. 36) - UkrainianГромадяни України мають право на свободу об'єднання у політичні партії та громадські організації для здійснення і захисту своїх прав і свобод та задоволення політичних, економічних, соціальних, культурних та інших інтересів, за винятком обмежень, встановлених законом в інтересах національної безпеки та громадського порядку, охорони здоров'я населення або захисту прав і свобод інших людей.
... (Стаття 36)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe National Popular Assembly has exclusive competence to legislate on:
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l. Associations and political parties;
… (Art. 86) - PortugueseÉ da exclusiva competência da Assembleia Nacional Popular legislar sobre as seguintes matérias:
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l) Associações e partidos políticos;
… (Art. 86)