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Obligations of the State
- English
The Republic of Serbia shall organise and provide for:
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2. exercise and protection of freedoms and rights of citizens; … liabilities and sanctions for violation of freedoms and rights of citizens stipulated by the Constitution and for violation of laws, other regulations and general acts;
... (Art. 97) - Serbian Cyrillic
Република Србија уређује и обезбеђује:
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2. остваривање и заштиту слобода и права грађана; ... одговорност и санкције за повреду слобода и права грађана утврђених Уставом и за повреду закона, других прописа и општих аката;
… (Члан 97)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishGuatemala is a free, independent and sovereign State, organized to guarantee to its inhabitants the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms. … (Art. 140)
- SpanishGuatemala es un Estado libre, independiente y soberano, organizado para garantizar a sus habitantes el goce de sus derechos y de sus libertades. … (Art. 140)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe State shall, as required, make legal provisions for the implementation of the rights conferred by this Part, within three years of the commencement of this Constitution. (Art. 47)
- Nepaliयस भागद्वारा प्रदत्त हकहरूको कार्यान्वयनकालागि आवश्यकता अनुसार राज्यले यो संविधान प्रारम्भ भएको तीन वर्षभित्र कानूनी व्यवस्था गर्नेछ । (धारा ४७)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishProceeding from the Basic Constitutional Charter on the Sovereignty and Independence of the Republic of Slovenia, and from fundamental human rights and Freedoms, …
(Preamble) - SloveneIzhajajoč iz Temeljne ustavne listine o samostojnosti in neodvisnosti Republike Slovenije, ter temeljnih človekovih pravic in svoboščin, ...
(Preambula)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishConvention on the Rights of the Child.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Convention Against Torture and Other Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women. (Fourth Schedule, Conventions)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe Union shall not intervene in the States or in the Federal District, except to:
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VII. ensure compliance with the following constitutional principles:
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b) individual rights;
… (Art. 34) - PortugueseA União não intervirá nos Estados nem no Distrito Federal, exceto para:
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VII - assegurar a observância dos seguintes princípios constitucionais:
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b) direitos da pessoa humana;
… (Art. 34)
Obligations of the State
- English…
(3) The Bill of Rights does not deny the existence of any other rights or freedoms that are recognised or conferred by common law, customary law or legislation, to the extent that they are consistent with the Bill. (Sec. 39)
Obligations of the State
- English
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3. The State shall endeavour to create a civil society free of oppression, discrimination and violence, based on the rule of law, protection of human rights and dignity, and to ensure the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རིང་ལུགས་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ཆེ་ མཐོང་གི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ གཉའ་གནོན་དང་ཕྱོགས་རིས་ འཚེ་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་བཟོ་ནི་དང་ མི་སེར་གྱི་གཞི་རྟེན་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ དལ་དབང་ཚུ་ ངེས་གཏན་ཡོདཔ་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་ བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Obligations of the State
- EnglishNotwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 28)
- FrenchIndépendamment des autres dispositions de la présente charte, les droits et libertés qui y sont mentionnés sont garantis également aux personnes des deux sexes. (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 28)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishThe aim of this Law is to improve the standard of the administrative work and the development in the provinces of the Kingdom. It is also aimed at maintaining security and order, and guaranteeing citizens' rights and freedom within the framework of the Sharia. (Law of the Provinces, Art. 1)
- Arabicيهدف هذا النظام إلى رفع مستوى العمل الإداري و التنمية في مناطق المملكة، كما يهدف إلى المحافظة على الأمن و النظام، و كفالة حقوق المواطنين و حرياتهم، في إطار الشريعة الإسلامية. (نظام المناطق، المادّة 1)