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- EnglishI. The State shall regulate the financial system based on criterion of equality of opportunity, solidarity, equitable distribution and redistribution.
… (Art. 330) - SpanishI. El Estado regulará el sistema financiero con criterios de igualdad de oportunidades, solidaridad, distribución y redistribución equitativa.
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Family, motherhood, fatherhood, and childhood shall be under the protection and care of the State.
… (Art. 38) - Lithuanian...
Valstybė saugo ir globoja šeimą, motinystę, tėvystę ir vaikystę.
... (38 straipsnis)
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- EnglishThe people of Venezuela, … guarantees the right to life, work, learning, education, social justice and equality, without discrimination or subordination of any kind; … (Preamble)
- SpanishEl pueblo de Venezuela, ... asegure el derecho a la vida, al trabajo, a la cultura, a la educación, a la justicia social y a la igualdad sin discriminación ni subordinación alguna; ...(Preámbulo)
Public Institutions and Services
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(3) Recognising that the most secure democracy is one that assures the basic necessities of life for its people, the State shall endeavour to establish an efficient, dynamic and self-reliant economy whose underlying principles shall include ensuring:
(a) ample and equal economic opportunity for all citizens and a pronounced role for the private sector, and the encouragement of private initiative;
… (Sec. 215)
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To the President of the Republic will likewise correspond the exclusive initiative to:
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4. Establish, modify, concede or augment remunerations, retirement payments, pensions, widows’ and orphans’ allowances, earnings [rentas] and any other class of emoluments, loans or benefits to active or retired personnel and to beneficiaries of widows’ and orphans’ allowances, in such case, of the public administration and of the other organs [organismos] and entities specified above, with the exception of the remunerations of the offices indicated in the first paragraph of Article 38bis, as well as establishing the minimum remuneration of the workers of the private sector, obligatorily augmenting their remunerations and other economic benefits or to alter the bases for determining them; all of which without prejudice to that provided in the following Numerals;
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6. Establish or modify the norms concerning social security or those related [incidir] to them, of both the public sector and the private sector.
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Corresponderá, asimismo, al Presidente de la República la iniciativa exclusiva para:
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4º.- Fijar, modificar, conceder o aumentar remuneraciones, jubilaciones, pensiones, montepíos, rentas y cualquiera otra clase de emolumentos, préstamos o beneficios al personal en servicio o en retiro y a los beneficiarios de montepío, en su caso, de la Administración Pública y demás organismos y entidades anteriormente señalados, con excepción de las remuneraciones de los cargos indicados en el inciso primero del artículo 38 bis, como asimismo fijar las remuneraciones mínimas de los trabajadores del sector privado, aumentar obligatoriamente sus remuneraciones y demás beneficios económicos o alterar las bases que sirvan para determinarlos; todo ello sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en los números si guientes;
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6º.- Establecer o modificar las normas sobre seguridad social o que incidan en ella, tanto del sector público como del sector privado.
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- EnglishThe economy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with its objectives of achieving the economic independence of the society, uprooting poverty and deprivation, and fulfilling human needs in the process of development while preserving human liberty, is based on the following criteria:
1. the provision of basic necessities for all citizens: housing, food, clothing, hygiene, medical treatment, education, and the necessary facilities for the establishment of a family;
… (Art. 43) - Persianبرای تأمین استقلال اقتصادی جامعه و ریشهکن کردن فقر و محرومیت و برآوردن نیازهای انسان در جریان رشد، با حفظ آزادگی او، اقتصاد جمهوری اسلامی ایران بر اساس ضوابط زیر استوار میشود:
1- تأمین نیازهای اساسی: مسکن، خوراک، پوشاک، بهداشت، درمان، آموزش و پرورش و امکانات لازم برای تشکیل خانواده برای همه.
… (اصل 43)
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- EnglishThe Republic provides particular care and protection for the family.
… (Art. 40) - MacedonianРепубликата му обезбедува посебна грижа и заштита на семејството.
… (Член 40)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishIt shall be a fundamental responsibility of the State to attain, through planned economic growth, a constant increase of productive forces and a steady improvement in the material and cultural standard of living of the people, with a view to securing to its citizens –
(a) the provision of the basic necessities of life, including food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care;
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(d) the right to social security, that is to say, to public assistance in cases of undeserved want arising from unemployment, illness or disablement, or suffered by widows or orphans or in old age, or in other such cases. (Art. 15) - Bengaliরাষ্ট্রের অন্যতম মৌলিক দায়িত্ব হইবে পরিকল্পিত অর্থনৈতিক বিকাশের মাধ্যমে উৎপাদন শক্তির ক্রমবৃদ্ধিসাধন এবং জনগণের জীবনযাত্রার বস্তুগত ও সংস্কৃতিগত মানের দৃঢ় উন্নতিসাধন, যাহাতে নাগরিকদের জন্য নিম্নলিখিত বিষয়সমূহ অর্জন নিশ্চিত করা যায়:
(ক) অন্ন, বস্ত্র, আশ্রয়, শিক্ষা ও চিকিৎসহ জীবনধারণের মৌলিক উপকরণের ব্যবস্থা;
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(ঘ) সামাজিক নিরাপত্তার অধিকার, অর্থাৎ বেকারত্ব, ব্যাধি বা পঙ্গুত্বজনিত কিংবা বৈধব্য, মাতাপিতৃহীনতা বা বার্ধক্যজনিত কিংবা অনুরূপ অন্যান্য পরিস্থিতিজনিত আয়ত্তাতীত কারণে অভাবগ্রস্ততার ক্ষেত্রে সরকারী সাহায্য লাভের অধিকার৷ (অনুচ্ছেদ ১৫)
Public Institutions and Services
- English1. Where under any law any person or authority has a discretion—
a. to decide whether or not any pensions benefits shall be granted; or
b. to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any such benefits that have been granted,
those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended unless the Public Service Commission concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in the decision to withhold them, reduce them in amount or suspend them.
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5. In this section “pensions benefits” means any pensions, compensation, gratuities or other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as public officers or for the widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service. (Sec. 151)
Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) Where under any law any person or authority has a discretion—
(a) to decide whether or not any pensions benefits shall be granted; or
(b) to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any such benefits that have been granted,
those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended unless the Public Service Commission concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in the decision to withhold them, reduce them in amount or suspend them.
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(5) In this section “pensions benefits” means any pensions, compensation, gratuities or other like allowances for persons in respect of their service as judges or officers of the Supreme Court or public officers or for the widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service. (Sec. 96)