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Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishHER MAJESTY VICTORIA Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favour the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorized to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's Sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands …
(Treaty of Waitangi, Preamble)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
The proposal for a new Constitution to be submitted to a plebiscite must contain, at least, the following institutional and fundamental principles:
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4. The Constitution recognizes indigenous peoples as part of the Chilean nation, which is united and indivisible. The State will respect and promote their rights and cultures.
... (Art. 154) - Spanish
La propuesta de nueva Constitución que se someta a plebiscito deberá contener, al menos, las siguientes bases institucionales y fundamentales:
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4. La Constitución reconoce a los pueblos indígenas como parte de la nación chilena, que es una e indivisible. El Estado respetará y promoverá sus derechos y culturas.
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Indigenous Peoples
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(c) For National races of which representatives are so permitted to participate in legislature of Regions, States or Self-Administered Areas in accord with Section 15, such representatives are to be permitted to participate, mainly, to undertake their National races affairs. (Sec. 17) - Burmese
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(ဂ) ပုဒ်မ ၁၅ အရ သက်ဆိုင်ရာ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင် အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စု ဥပဒေပြုရေးတွင် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ပါဝင်ခွင့်ရရှိသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လူမျိုးဖြစ်လျှင် ထိုတိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ် နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရ စီရင်စု အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးတွင် အဓိကအားဖြင့် ထိုတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများရေးရာကို ဆောင် ရွက်နိုင်ရေးအတွက် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုး ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ ပါဝင်ခွင့်ပြုရမည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၇)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishFor National races with suitable population, National races representatives are entitled to participate in legislature of Regions or States and Self-Administered Areas concerned. (Sec. 15)
- Burmeseလျော်ကန်သင့်မြတ်သော လူဦးရေရှိသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးများအတွက် သက် ဆိုင်ရာတိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ်နှင့် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရစီရင်စု ဥပဒေ ပြုရေးတွင် ထိုတိုင်းရင်းသားလူမျိုးကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ ပါဝင်ခွင့်ရှိသည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၁၅)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishWe the people of Afghanistan:
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Comprehending that a united, indivisible Afghanistan belongs to all its tribes and peoples;
… (Preamble) - Dariما مردم افغانستان:
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با درك این كه افغانستان واحد و یكپارچه به همه اقوام و مردم این سرزمین تعلق دارد؛
... (مقدمه) - Pashtoموږ د افغانستان خلكو:
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په دې درك سره چې واحد او يو مو ټى افغانستان ددې خاورې په ټولو قومونو او خلكو اړه لري؛
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Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishI. The State shall promote the relations of social, political, cultural and economic integration with other states, nations and peoples of the world and, in particular, Latin American integration, based on the principles of a just, equitable relationship with recognition of asymmetry.
II. The state shall strengthen the integration of its nations and rural native indigenous peoples with the indigenous peoples of the world. (Art. 265) - SpanishI. El Estado promoverá, sobre los principios de una relación justa, equitativa y con reconocimiento de las asimetrías, las relaciones de integración social, política, cultural y económica con los demás estados, naciones y pueblos del mundo y, en particular, promoverá la integración latinoamericana.
II. El Estado fortalecerá la integración de sus naciones y pueblos indígena originario campesinos con los pueblos indígenas del mundo. (Art. 265)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishIn the United Mexican States all persons will enjoy the human rights recognized in this Constitution and in the treaties to which the Mexican State is a party, as well as the guarantees for their protection, of which [the] exercise may not be restricted or suspended, except in the cases and under the conditions that this Constitution establishes.
… (Art. 1) - SpanishEn los Estados Unidos Mexicanos todas las personas gozarán de los derechos humanos reconocidos en esta Constitución y en los tratados internacionales de los que el Estado Mexicano sea parte, así como de las garantías para su protección, cuyo ejercicio no podrá restringirse ni suspenderse, salvo en los casos y bajo las condiciones que esta Constitución establece.
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Limitations and/or Derogations
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1. Extraordinary measures may be imposed due to a state of war, state of emergency, or state of natural disaster and last for as long as these states continue.
2. The principles of the activity of public bodies, as well as the extent of limitations on human rights and freedoms during the period of the existence of situations that require extraordinary measures, are defined by law.
3. The law must define the principles, areas and manner of compensation for losses caused as a result of the limitation of human rights and freedoms during the period in which extraordinary measures are imposed.
4. Acts taken as a result of extraordinary measures shall be in proportion with the level of risk and shall aim to re-establish the conditions for the normal functioning of the state, as soon as possible.
5. During the situations that require the imposition of extraordinary measures, none of these acts may be amended: the Constitution, the laws on the election of the Assembly and organs of local government, as well as the laws on extraordinary measures.
6. During the period of implementation of extraordinary measures, there may not be held elections for local government bodies, there may not be a referendum, and a new President of the Republic may not be elected. The elections for the local government bodies may be held only in those places where the extraordinary measures are not implemented. (Art. 170) - Albanian
1. Masat e jashtëzakonshme mund të vendosen për shkak të gjendjes së luftës, gjendjes së jashtëzakonshme ose gjendjes së fatkeqësisë natyrore dhe zgjatin për aq kohë sa vazhdojnë këto gjendje.
2. Parimet e veprimtarisë së organeve publike dhe shkalla e kufizimit të të drejtave dhe lirive të njeriut gjatë gjithë periudhës së ekzistencës së gjendjeve që kërkojnë marrjen e masave të jashtëzakonshme, përcaktohen me ligj.
3. Ligji duhet të përcaktojë parimet, fushat dhe mënyrën e kompensimit të humbjeve që vijnë si rezultat i kufizimit të të drejtave dhe lirive gjatë marrjes së masave të jashtëzakonshme.
4. Aktet që ndërmerren si pasojë e marrjes së masave të jashtëzakonshme, duhet të jenë në përpjesëtim me shkallën e rrezikut dhe duhet të synojnë rivendosjen sa më të shpejtë të kushteve për funksionimin normal të shtetit.
5. Gjatë gjendjeve që kërkojnë marrjen e masave të jashtëzakonshme, nuk mund të ndryshohet asnjë prej këtyre akteve: Kushtetuta, ligjet për zgjedhjet për Kuvendin dhe për organet e pushtetit vendor, si dhe ligjet për masat e jashtëzakonshme.
6. Gjatë periudhës së zbatimit të masave të jashtëzakonshme nuk mund të zhvillohen zgjedhje vendore, nuk mund të zhvillohet referendum, si dhe nuk mund të zgjidhet një President i ri i Republikës. Zgjedhjet vendore mund të bëhen vetëm aty ku nuk zbatohen masat e jashtëzakonshme. (Neni 170)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe President of the Republic, at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers, shall have the power to decree states of exception. Expressly defined as such are circumstances of a social, economic, political, natural or ecological nature which seriously affect the security of the Nation, institutions and citizens, in the face of which the powers available to cope with such events are insufficient. In such case, the guarantees contained in this Constitution may be temporarily restricted, with the exception of those relating to the right to life, prohibition of incommunicative detention or torture, the right to due process, the right to information and other intangible human rights. (Art. 337)
- SpanishEl Presidente o Presidenta de la República, en Consejo de Ministros, podrá decretar los estados de excepción. Se califican expresamente como tales las circunstancias de orden social, económico, político, natural o ecológico, que afecten gravemente la seguridad de la Nación, de las instituciones y de los ciudadanos y ciudadanas, a cuyo respecto resultan insuficientes las facultades de las cuales se disponen para hacer frente a tales hechos. En tal caso, podrán ser restringidas temporalmente las garantías consagradas en esta Constitución, salvo las referidas a los derechos a la vida, prohibición de incomunicación o tortura, el derecho al debido proceso, el derecho a la información y los demás derechos humanos intangibles (Art. 337)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe States of Exception to which the previous Articles refer will be subject to the following provisions:
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2. Neither human rights nor fundamental freedoms may be suspended. In all cases, the rules of international humanitarian law will be respected. A statutory law will regulate the faculties of the Government during the States of Exception and will establish the judicial controls and guarantees to protect the rights in conformity with international treaties. The measures which are adopted must be proportionate to the gravity of the facts.
… (Art. 214) - SpanishLos Estados de Excepción a que se refieren los artículos anteriores se someterán a las siguientes disposiciones:
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2. No podrán suspenderse los derechos humanos ni las libertades fundamentales. En todo caso se respetarán las reglas del derecho internacional humanitario. Una ley estatutaria regulará las facultades del Gobierno durante los estados de excepción y establecerá los controles judiciales y las garantías para proteger los derechos, de conformidad con los tratados internacionales. Las medidas que se adopten deberán ser proporcionales a la gravedad de los hechos.
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