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Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe claims of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes shall be taken into consideration, consistently with the maintenance of efficiency of administration, in the making of appointments to services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State:
Provided that nothing in this article shall prevent in making of any provision in favour of the members of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes for relaxation in qualifying marks in any examination or lowering the standards of evaluation, for reservation in matters or promotion to any class or classes of services or posts in connection with the affairs of the Union or of a State. (Art. 335) - Hindiसंघ या किसी राज्य के कार्यकलाप से संबंधित सेवाओं और पदों के लिए नियुक्तियाँ करने में, अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के सदस्यों के दावों का, प्रशासन की दक्षता बनाए रखने की संगति के अनुसार ध्यान रखा जाएगा:
परंतु इस अनुच्छेद की कोई बात अनुसूचित जातियों और अनुसूचित जनजातियों के सदस्यों के पक्ष में, संघ या किसी राज्य के कार्यकलाप से संबंधित सेवाओं के किसी वर्ग या वर्गों में या पदों पर प्रोन्नति के मामलों में आरक्षण के लिए, किसी परीक्षा में अर्हक अंकों में छूट देने या मूल्यांकन के मानकों को घटाने के लिए उपबंध करने से निवारित नहीं करेगी। (अनुच्छेद 335)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe authorities of the indigenous peoples can exercise their jurisdictional functions within their territorial scope, in conformity with their own norms and procedures, as long as these are not contrary to the Constitution and the laws of the Republic. The law will establish the forms of coordination of this special jurisdiction with the national judicial system. (Art. 246)
- SpanishLas autoridades de los pueblos indígenas podrán ejercer funciones jurisdiccionales dentro de su ámbito territorial, de conformidad con sus propias normas y procedimientos, siempre que no sean contrarios a la Constitución y leyes de la República. La ley establecerá las formas de coordinación de esta jurisdicción especial con el sistema judicial nacional. (Art. 246)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe Union shall assist :
(a) to develop language, literature, fine arts and culture of the National races;
(b) to promote solidarity, mutual amity and respect and mutual assistance among the National races;
(c) to promote socio-economic development including education, health, economy, transport and communication, so forth, of less-developed National races. (Sec. 22) - Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် -
(က) တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ စကား၊ စာပေ၊ အနုပညာ၊ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု တို့ကို ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်စေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ခ) တိုင်းရင်းသားအချင်းချင်း စည်းလုံးညီညွတ်ရေး၊ ချစ်ကြည်လေးစားရေးနှင့် ရိုင်းပင်း ကူညီရေးတို့ တိုးတက်ဖြစ်ထွန်းစေရန် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်၊
(ဂ) တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုနည်းပါးနေသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများ၏ ပညာရေး၊ ကျန်းမာရေး၊ စီးပွားရေး၊ လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး စသည်တို့ပါဝင်သော လူမှုစီးပွားရေး တိုးတက်ဖွံ့ဖြိုး ရေးအတွက် ကူညီဆောင်ရွက်မည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၂၂)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe lands of the cooperatives, [the] indigenous communities or any other forms of communal or collective possession of agrarian ownership, as well as the family patrimony and the people's housing, will enjoy special protection of the State, [and] of preferential credit and technical assistance, which may guarantee their possession and development, in order to assure an improved quality of life to all of the inhabitants.
The indigenous communities and others that hold lands that historically belong to them and which they have traditionally administered in special form, will maintain that system. (Art. 67) - SpanishLas tierras de las cooperativas, comunidades indígenas o cualesquiera otras formas de tenencia comunal o colectiva de propiedad agraria, así como el patrimonio familiar y vivienda popular, gozarán de protección especial del Estado, de asistencia crediticia y de técnica preferencial, que garanticen su posesión y desarrollo, a fin de asegurar a todos los habitantes una mejor calidad de vida.
Las comunidades indígenas y otras que tengan tierras que históricamente les pertenecen y que tradicionalmente han administrado en forma especial, mantendrán ese sistema. (Art. 67)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe State shall:
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(4) Encourage non-formal, informal, and indigenous learning systems, as well as self-learning, independent, and out-of-school study programs particularly those that respond to community needs;
… (Art. XIV, Sec. 2) - FilipinoAng Estado ay dapat:
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(4) Pasiglahin ang di-pormal, impormal at katutubong mga sistema ng pagkatuto, at gayon din ang mga programang pagkatuto sa sarili, sarilinang pag-aaral at pag-aaral sa labas ng paaralan lalo na yaong tumutugon sa mga pangangailangan ng pamayanan;
… (Art. XIV, Seksyon 2)
Indigenous Peoples
- English
The State has the obligation to adopt [dictar] laws designed to promote actions that assure that no Nicaraguan will be the object of discrimination for reason of their [su] language, culture and origin. (Art. 91)
- Spanish
El Estado tiene la obligación de dictar leyes destinadas a promover acciones que aseguren que ningún nicaragüense sea objeto de discriminación por razón de su lengua, cultura y origen. (Art. 91)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishWE, THE PEOPLE OF FIJI,
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the iTaukei, their ownership of iTaukei lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
RECOGNISING the indigenous people or the Rotuman from the island of Rotuma, their ownership of Rotuman lands, their unique culture, customs, traditions and language;
… (Preamble) - iTaukeiO KEIMAMI NA LEWEI VITI,
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua se kawa itaukei, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, na nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
ROKOVA na itaukei ni vanua o Rotuma, mai na yanuyanu o Rotuma, na nodra taukena na kedra qele, nodra itovo, ivakarau kei na vosa;
… (Ikau)
Indigenous Peoples
- English[The following] are duties and attributions of the Public Ministry:
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2. to promote public penal action to defend the public and social patrimony, the environment and other various [difusos] interests, as well as the rights of the Indigenous Peoples;
… (Art. 268) - SpanishSon deberes y atribuciones del Ministerio Público:
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2. promover acción penal pública para defender el patrimonio público y social, el medio ambiente y otros intereses difusos, así como los derechos de los pueblos indígenas;
… (Art. 268)
Indigenous Peoples
- English1. Notwithstanding Articles 73 and 74 the Government may buy land from custom owners for the purpose of transferring ownership of it to indigenous citizens or indigenous communities from over-populated islands.
2. When redistributing land in accordance with subarticle (1), the Government shall give priority to ethnic, linguistic, customary and geographical ties. (Art. 81) - French1) Nonobstant les dispositions des articles 73 et 74, le gouvernement peut acheter des terres aux propriétaires coutumiers dans le but d'en transférer la propriété aux citoyens indigènes ou à des collectivités indigènes originaires d'îles surpeuplées.
2) Pour la redistribution des terres effectuée en application du paragraphe 1), le gouvernement tient compte en priorité des facteurs ethniques, linguistiques, coutumiers et géographiques. (Art. 81)
Indigenous Peoples
- EnglishThe state shall be obligated to create a prosperous and progressive society based on social justice, preservation of human dignity, protection of human rights, realization of democracy, attainment of national unity as well as equality between all peoples and tribes and balance development of all areas of the country. (Art. 6)
- Dariدولت به ایجاد یك جامعه مرفه و مترقی بر اساس عدالت اجتماعی، حفظ كرامت انسانی، حمایت حقوق بشر، تحقق دموكراسی، تأمین وحدت ملی، برابری بین همه اقوام و قبایل و انكشاف متوازن در همه مناطق كشور مكلف می باشد. (مادۀ ۶)
- Pashtoدولت، د انساني كرامت په ساتلو، بشري حقوقو د ملاتړ، د دموكراسۍ د تحقق، ملي وحدت د تأمين، د ټولو قومونو او قبايلو ترمنځ د برابرۍ او د هېواد په ټولو سيمو كې د متوازنې پراختيا او ټولنيز عدالت پر بنسټ د يوې هوسا او پرمختللې ټولنې په جوړولو مكلف دى. (۶ ماده)