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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishEvery person has the right to adequate, safe and comfortable, hygienic housing, with appropriate essential basic services, including a habitat such as to humanize family, neighborhood and community relations. The progressive meeting of this requirement is the shared responsibility of citizens and the State in all areas.
The State shall give priority to families, and shall guarantee them, especially those with meager resources, the possibility of access to social policies and credit for the construction, purchase or enlargement of dwellings. (Art. 82) - SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a una vivienda adecuada, segura, cómoda, higiénica, con servicios básicos esenciales que incluyan un hábitat que humanice las relaciones familiares, vecinales y comunitarias. La satisfacción progresiva de este derecho es obligación compartida entre los ciudadanos y ciudadanas y el Estado en todos sus ámbitos.
El Estado dará prioridad a las familias y garantizará los medios para que éstas y especialmente las de escasos recursos, puedan acceder a las políticas sociales y al crédito para la construcción, adquisición o ampliación de viviendas. (Art. 82)
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe objects of the devolution of government are-
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f. to promote social and economic development and the provision of proximate, easily accessible services throughout Kenya;
… (Art. 174) - SwahiliMalengo ya ugatuzi wa serikali ni-
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f. kuimarisha maendeleo ya kijamii na kiuchumi na kutoa huduma karibu na wananchi, zinazopatikana kwa urahisi katika nchi nzima ya Kenya;
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The raising and upbringing of children until they come of legal age shall be a right and obligation of their parents and shall be assisted by the State.
(2) Mothers shall be the object of special protection on the part of the State and shall be guaranteed prenatal and postnatal leave, free obstetric care, alleviated working conditions and other social assistance.
… (Art. 47) - Bulgarian(1) Отглеждането и възпитанието на децата до пълнолетието им е право и задължение на техните родители и се подпомага от държавата.
(2) Жената майка се ползва от особената закрила на държавата, която й осигурява платен отпуск преди и след раждане, безплатна акушерска помощ, облекчаване на труда и други социални помощи.
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Public Institutions and Services
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The State organizes institutions and services that facilitate the ability of working families to carry out their responsibilities. (Art. 64) - Spanish…
El Estado organiza instituciones y servicios que faciliten a las familias trabajadoras el desempeño de sus responsabilidades. (Art. 64)
Public Institutions and Services
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The family, the basic unit of the human community, is organized in a manner to assure its unity, its stability and its protection. It is placed under the protection of the public powers.
The care and the education to be given to the children constitute, for the parents, a natural right and a duty which they exercise under the surveillance [and] with the aid of the public powers.
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La famille, cellule de base de la communauté humaine, est organisée de manière à assurer son unité, sa stabilité et sa protection. Elle est placée sous la protection des pouvoirs publics.
Les soins et l’éducation à donner aux enfants constituent, pour les parents, un droit naturel et un devoir qu’ils exercent sous la surveillance et avec l’aide des pouvoirs publics.
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Public Institutions and Services
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7. The State shall endeavour to develop and execute policies to minimize inequalities of income, concentration of wealth, and promote equitable distribution of public facilities among individuals and people living in different parts of the Kingdom.
8. The State shall endeavour to ensure that all the Dzongkhags are treated with equity on the basis of different needs so that the allocation of national resources results in comparable socioeconomic development.
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21. The State shall provide free access to basic public health services in both modern and traditional medicines.
22. The State shall endeavour to provide security in the event of sickness and disability or lack of adequate means of livelihood for reasons beyond one’s control.
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༧) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དོ་ཟླ་མི་མཉམ་པའི་འོང་འབབ་དང་ རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཅིག་དབང་གང་ཉུང་བཟོ་ནིའི་ སྲིད་བྱུས་ཚུ་ཡར་རྒྱས་གཏང་སྟེ་བསྟར་སྤྱོད་འབད་ནི་དང་ ངོ་རྐྱང་ཚུ་དང་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ས་གནས་ སོ་སོར་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གི་བར་ན་ དམངས་ཀྱི་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་འབད་ནི་ལུ་ བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༨) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཀྱི་ཐོན་ཁུངས་བགོ་སྐལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དོ་ཟླ་མཉམ་པའི་མི་སྡེ་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་ལུ་ དགོས་ མཁོ་ སོ་སོར་གཞི་བཞག་སྟེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ སྤྱི་སྙོམས་ཀྱི་སྐྱོང་གཞག་ངེས་པར་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོདན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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༢༡) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ དེང་རབས་དང་ སྔར་སྲོལ་གསོ་དཔྱད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་ མི་དམངས་གསོ་བའི་ གཞིས་གནས་ཞབས་ ཏོག་ཚུ་ སྟོང་པར་ཐོབ་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་དགོ།
༢༢) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ནད་གཞི་དང་ དབང་པོ་ལུ་ཐོ་ཕོག་པ་ ཡང་ན་ ཐབས་མེད་ཀྱི་གནས་ལུ་ ཐུག་སྟེ་འཚོ་རྟེན་ ལྡང་ངེས་མེད་པའི་སྐབས་ བདེ་སྲུང་བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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Public Institutions and Services
- English1. The law to be applied with respect to any pensions benefits that were granted to any person before 12 March 1968 shall be the law that was in force at the date on which those benefits were granted or any law in force at a later date that is not less favourable to that person.
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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, dependents or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service.
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man and a woman established by voluntary decision, and the family as the basis of the survival of the nation.
… (Foundation, Art. L) - Hungarian(1) Magyarország védi a házasság intézményét mint férfi és nő között, önkéntes elhatározás alapján létrejött életközösséget, valamint a családot mint a nemzet fennmaradásának alapját.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishAll arbitrary displacement is forbidden. Persons who have been displaced shall have the right to receive protection and emergency humanitarian aid from the authorities, ensuring access to food, shelter, housing, and medical and health services.
Children, adolescents, pregnant women, mothers with underage daughters and sons, elderly persons and persons with disabilities shall receive preferential and specialized humanitarian assistance.
All displaced persons and groups shall have the right to return to their place of origin voluntarily, with safety and dignity. (Art. 42) - SpanishSe prohíbe todo desplazamiento arbitrario. Las personas que hayan sido desplazadas tendrán derecho a recibir protección y asistencia humanitaria emergente de las autoridades, que asegure el acceso a alimentos, alojamiento, vivienda y servicios médicos y sanitarios.
Las niñas, niños, adolescentes, mujeres embarazadas, madres con hijas o hijos menores, personas adultas mayores y personas con discapacidad recibirán asistencia humanitaria preferente y especializada.
Todas las personas y grupos desplazados tienen derecho a retornar a su lugar de origen de forma voluntaria, segura y digna. (Art. 42)
Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) The State shall take all necessary action to ensure that the national economy is managed in such a manner as to maximise the rate of economic development and to secure the maximum welfare, freedom and happiness of every person in Eswatini and to provide adequate means of livelihood and suitable employment and public assistance to the needy.(2) The State shall, in particular, take all necessary steps to establish a sound and healthy economy whose underlying principles shall include -…(c) ensuring that individuals and the private sector bear their fair share of social and national responsibilities including responsibilities to contribute to the overall development of the country;(d) undertaking even and balanced development of all regions and in particular improving the conditions of life in the rural areas, and generally, redressing any imbalance in development between the rural and urban areas;… (Sec. 59)