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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Men and women shall have equal rights in family, political, social and economic life in the Republic of Poland.
… (Art. 33) - Polish1. Kobieta i mężczyzna w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej mają równe prawa w życiu rodzinnym, politycznym, społecznym i gospodarczym.
… (Art. 33)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe public powers enact [élaborent] and implement the policies designed [destinées] for persons and for categories of specific needs. To this effect, it sees notably:
• to respond to [traiter] and provide for the vulnerability of certain categories of women and of mothers, of children, and of elderly persons;
… (Art. 34) - Arabicتقوم السّلطات العمومية بوضع وتفعيل سياسات موجّهة إلى الأشخاص والفئات من ذوي الاحتياجات الخصوصية ولهذا الغرض، تسهر خصوصاً على ما يلي:
• معالجة الأوضاع الهشّة لفئات من النّساء والأمّهات، وللأطفال والأشخاص المسنّين ،
… (الفصل 34)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishAll persons are entitled to Social Security as a nonprofit public service to guarantee health and protection in contingencies of maternity, fatherhood, illness, invalidity, catastrophic illness, disability, special needs, occupational risks, loss of employment, unemployment, old age, widowhood, loss of parents, housing, burdens deriving from family life, and any other social welfare circumstances. The State has the obligation and responsibility of ensuring the efficacy of this right, creating a universal and complete Social Security system, with joint, unitary, efficient and participatory financing from direct and indirect contributions. The lack of ability to contribute shall not be ground for excluding persons from protection by the system. … (Art. 86)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a la seguridad social como servicio público de carácter no lucrativo, que garantice la salud y asegure protección en contingencias de maternidad, paternidad, enfermedad, invalidez, enfermedades catastróficas, discapacidad, necesidades especiales, riesgos laborales, pérdida de empleo, desempleo, vejez, viudedad, orfandad, vivienda, cargas derivadas de la vida familiar y cualquier otra circunstancia de previsión social. El Estado tiene la obligación de asegurar la efectividad de este derecho, creando un sistema de seguridad social universal, integral, de financiamiento solidario, unitario, eficiente y participativo, de contribuciones directas o indirectas. La ausencia de capacidad contributiva no será motivo para excluir a las personas de su protección. … (Art. 86)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following rights of persons are recognized and guaranteed:
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20. The right to personal and family intimacy.
… (Art. 66) - SpanishSe reconoce y garantizará a las personas:
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20. El derecho a la intimidad personal y familiar.
… (Art. 66)
Marriage and Family Life
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(5) No child shall be subjected to child marriage,
… (Art. 39) - Nepali
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(५) कुनै पनि बालबालिकालाई बाल विवाह, … गराउन पाइने छैन ।
… (धारा ३९)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The family is founded on the freely consented marriage of the spouses, their full equality, as well as the right and duty of the parents to ensure the upbringing, education and instruction of their children.
(2) The terms for entering into marriage dissolution and nullity of marriage shall be established by law. Religious wedding may be celebrated only after the civil marriage.
(3) Children born out of wedlock are equal before the law with those born in wedlock. (Art. 48) - Romanian(1) Familia se întemeiază pe căsătoria liber consimţită între soţi, pe egalitatea acestora şi pe dreptul şi îndatorirea părinţilor de a asigura creşterea, educaţia şi instruirea copiilor.
(2) Condiţiile de încheiere, de desfacere şi de nulitate a căsătoriei se stabilesc prin lege. Căsătoria religioasă poate fi celebrată numai după căsătoria civilă.
(3) Copiii din afara căsătoriei sunt egali în faţa legii cu cei din căsătorie. (Art. 48)
Marriage and Family Life
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(3) The State shall direct its policy towards ensuring that –
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(h) the evolution and promotion of family life is encouraged. (Sec. 17)
Marriage and Family Life
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19. A person shall not be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence nor to unlawful attacks on the person’s honour and reputation.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༡༩) མི་ཅིག་གི་རང་གསང་ ཡང་ན་ བཟའ་ཚང་ སྡོད་གནས་ འཕྲིན་འབྲེལ་བཅས་ལུ་བཙན་དབང་ ཡང་ན་ ཁྲིམས་ འགལ་གྱི་ ཐེ་གཏོགས་དང་ ཁོའམ་མོ་རའི་ཆེ་བསྟོད་དང་སྙན་གྲགས་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་གནོད་བཀལ་གྱི་ དབང་ལུ་ བསྡུ་ནི་ མེད།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe children born in or out of matrimony and the adopted [ones], have equal rights before their parents. [It] is the obligation of these to give their children protection, assistance, education and security.
Any description [calificación] concerning the nature of the affiliation will not be consigned in the records of the Civil Registry, nor will the civil status of the parents be expressed in the birth certificates [partidas].
Every person has the right to have a name to be identified [with]. The secondary law [ley secundaria] will regulate this matter.
The law will determine likewise the forms of investigating and establishing the paternity. (Art. 36) - SpanishLos hijos nacidos dentro o fuera de matrimonio y los adoptivos, tienen iguales derechos frente a sus padres. Es obligación de éstos dar a sus hijos protección, asistencia, educación y seguridad.
No se consignará en las actas del Registro Civil ninguna calificación sobre la naturaleza de la filiación, ni se expresará en las partidas de nacimiento el estado civil de los padres.
Toda persona tiene derecho a tener un nombre que la identifique. La ley secundaria regulará esta materia.
La ley determinará asimismo las formas de investigar y establecer la paternidad. (Art. 36)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family is the nucleus of Saudi society. Its members shall be brought up imbued with the Islamic Creed which calls for obedience to God, His Messenger and those of the nation who are charged with authority; for the respect and enforcement of law and order; and for love of the motherland and taking pride in its glorious history. (Basic Law, Art. 9)
- Arabicالأسرة هي نواة المجتمع السعودي. ينشأ أعضاؤها مشبوعين بالعقيدة الإسلامية التي تدعو إلى طاعة الله ورسوله وأهل الأمة المكلفين بالسلطة ؛ من أجل احترام وإنفاذ القانون والنظام ؛ وحب الوطن ﻭﺍﻻﻋﺘﺯﺍﺯ بتاريخها المجيد (النظام الأساسي، المادة 9)