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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 government must ensure the rights of women in all respects, in conformity with Islamic criteria, and accomplish the following goals:
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2. the protection of mothers, particularly during pregnancy and childbearing, and the protection of children without guardians;
3. establishing competent courts to protect and preserve the foundation and survival of the family;
4. the provision of special insurance for widows, and aged women and women without support;
5. the awarding of guardianship of children to worthy mothers, in order to protect the interests of the children, in the absence of a legal guardian. (Art. 21) - Persianدولت موظف است حقوق زن را در تمام جهات با رعایت موازین اسلامی تضمین نماید و امور زیر را انجام دهد:
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2- حمایت مادران، بهخصوص در دوران بارداری و حضانت فرزند، و حمایت از کودکان بیسرپرست.
3- ایجاد دادگاه صالح برای حفظ کیان و بقای خانواده.
4- ایجاد بیمه خاص بیوگان و زنان سالخورده و بیسرپرست.
5- اعطای قیمومت فرزندان به مادران شایسته در جهت غبطه آنها در صورت نبودن ولی شرعی. (اصل 21)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishParents have the natural right and the duty to raise their children. They are sustained in this effort, by the State and the public collectivities. … (Art. 20)
- FrenchLes parents ont le droit naturel et le devoir d'élever leurs enfants. Ils sont soutenus, dans cette tâche, par l'Etat et les collectivités publiques. ... (Art. 20)
Marriage and Family Life
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(9) The parents have prior right to choose the appropriate field of education for their children. (Art. 35) - Moldovian
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(9) Dreptul prioritar de a alege sfera de instruire a copiilor revine părinţilor. (Art. 35)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following are the fundamental obligations of the State:
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d. To see to the raising of the standard of living of all the inhabitants of the country, securing [procurando] the wellbeing of the family;
… (Art. 119) - SpanishSon obligaciones fundamentales del Estado:
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d) Velar por la elevación del nivel de vida de todos los habitantes del país, procurando el bienestar de la familia;
… (Art. 119)
Marriage and Family Life
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Citizens of both women and men enjoy equal rights in the political, economic, cultural and social fields and in family affairs. (Art. 37)
- Lao
ພົນລະເມືອງລາວຍິງຊາຍ ມີສິດເທົ່າທຽມກັນ ໃນດ້ານການເມືອງ, ເສດຖະກິດ, ວັດທະນະທໍາ-ສັງຄົມ ແລະຄອບຄົວ. (ມາດຕາ 37)
Marriage and Family Life
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3. No death penalty shall be executed upon a pregnant or lactating woman, save after two years of lactation. (Art. 21)
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
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The law establishes the rules concerning:
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- … the status and capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
- the family code;
… (Art. 127) - Arabic...
يرسي القانون القواعد المتعلقة:
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- ... بحالة وقدرة الأشخاص وأنظمة الزواج والإرث والهدايا؛
ـ قانون الأسرة؛
... (المادة 127) - French…
La loi fixe les règles concernant:
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et les libéralités;
- le code de la famille;
… (Art. 127)
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)