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Political Rights and Association
- EnglishAll persons who, on the date of an election, are 18 years of age or older and have Icelandic nationality have the right to vote in elections to Althingi. Permanent domicile in Iceland, on the date of an election, is also a requirement for voting, unless exceptions from this rule are stipulated in the law on elections to Althingi.
… (Art. 33) - IcelandicKosningarrétt við kosningar til Alþingis hafa allir sem eru 18 ára eða eldri þegar kosning fer fram og hafa íslenskan ríkisborgararétt. Lögheimili á Íslandi, þegar kosning fer fram, er einnig skilyrði kosningarréttar, nema undantekningar frá þeirri reglu verði ákveðnar í lögum um kosningar til Alþingis.
… (33. gr.)
Political Rights and Association
- English…
2 Every person has the right to form, join or belong to an association and to participate in the activities of an association.
… (Art. 23) - French…
2 Toute personne a le droit de créer des associations, d’y adhérer ou d’y appartenir et de participer aux activités associatives.
… (Art. 23) - German…
2 Jede Person hat das Recht, Vereinigungen zu bilden, Vereinigungen beizutreten oder anzugehören und sich an den Tätigkeiten von Vereinigungen zu beteiligen.
… (Art. 23) - Italian…
2 Ognuno ha il diritto di costituire associazioni, di aderirvi o di farne parte e di partecipare alle attività associative.
… (Art. 23)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishWomen’s participation in the various management and decision-making processes, whether private, public or state, shall be encouraged and facilitated by laws enacted for that purpose or otherwise. (Art. 29)
Political Rights and Association
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(2) Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life.
… (Art. 28) - Bengali…
(২) রাষ্ট্র ও গণজীবনের সর্বস্তরে নারী পুরুষের সমান অধিকার লাভ করিবেন।
… (অনুচ্ছেদ ২৮)
Political Rights and Association
- English(1) Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of sovereignty or integrity of Pakistan, public order or morality.
(2) Every citizen, not being in the service of Pakistan, shall have the right to form or be a member of a political party, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of Pakistan and such law shall provide that where the Federal Government declares that any political party has been formed or is operating in a manner prejudicial to the sovereignty or integrity of Pakistan, the Federal Government shall, within fifteen days of such declaration, refer the matter to the Supreme Court whose decision on such reference shall be final.
… (Art. 17) - Urdu(ا) پاکستان کی حاکمیت اعلی یا سالمیت امنِ عامہ یا اخلاق کے مفاد میں قانون کے ذریعے عائد کردہ معقول پابندیوں کے تابع، ہر شہری کو انجمنیں یا یونینیں بنانے کا حق حاصل ہو گا۔
(٢) ہر شہری کو، جو ملازمتِ پاکستان میں نہ ہو، پاکستان کی حاکمیت اعلی سالمیت کے مفاد میں قانون کے ذریعے عائد کردہ معقول پابندیوں کے تابع کوئی سیاسی جماعت بنانے یا اس کا رکن بننے کا حق ہوگا اور مذکورہ قانون میں قرار دیا جائے گا کہ جبکہ وفاقی حکومت یہ اعلان کر دے کہ کوئی سیاسی جماعت ایسے طریقے پر بنائی گئی ہے یا عمل کر رہی ہے جو پاکستان کی حاکمیتِ اعلی یا سالمیت کے لیے مضر ہے تو وفاقی حکومت مذکورہ اعلان سے پندرہ دن کے اندر معاملہ عدالتِ عظمٰی کے حوالے کر دے گی جس کا مذکورہ حوالے پر فیصلہ قطعی ہوگا۔
… (آرٹیکل ۱۷)
Political Rights and Association
- English
Any person has the right to freely constitute associations, under reserve of conforming themselves to the law.
This same right is recognized for the creation of political parties.
… (Art. 14) - French
Toute personne a le droit de constituer librement des associations sous réserve de se conformer à la loi.
Ce même droit est reconnu pour la création de partis politiques.
… (Art. 14)
Political Rights and Association
- English
1. Under this Constitution, the general will of the people shall be the basis of government and it shall be expressed through periodic elections.
2. A person shall have the right to vote by direct adult suffrage through secret ballot at an election if the person is:
a. A Bhutanese citizen as evidenced by a Citizenship Card;
b. Not less than eighteen years of age;
c. Registered in the civil registry of that constituency for not less than one year, prior to the date of the election; and
d. Not otherwise disqualified from voting under any law in force in Bhutan.
… (Art. 23) - Dzongkha
༡) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ གཞུང་གི་གཞི་གནས་འདི་ མི་སེར་སྤྱིར་གྱི་བསམ་དོན་ཨིནམ་དང་ བསམ་དོན་ འདི་ དུས་མཚམས་ཅན་གྱི་བཙག་འཐུའི་ཐོག་ལས་གསལ་སྟོན་འབད་དགོ།
༢) མི་ཅིག་གིས་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཅིག་ནང་གསང་བའི་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐོག་ལས་ ན་ལོན་ཚོགས་རྒྱན་ཐད་ ཀར་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་མི་དེ་ཡང་ གལ་སྲིད་མི་ངོ་འདི།
ཀ༽ མི་ཁུངས་ལག་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་སྟོན་ནི་ཡོད་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་དང།
ཁ༽ སྐྱེས་ལོ་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་ལས་མ་ཆུང་བ།
ག༽ བཙག་འཐུའི་ཚེས་གྲངས་ཀྱི་སྔ་གོང་ལས་ལོ་ངོ་གཅིག་ལས་མ་ཉུང་བར་ འདེམས་ཁོངས་དེའི་ ཞི་བའི་ཐོ་བཀོད་ མ་ཡིག་ནང་བཀོད་དེ་ཡོད་པ། དང་།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ཁྱབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁྲིམས་གང་རུང་ཅིག་གི་ནང་གསལ་ལྟར་ ཚོགས་རྒྱན་བསྐྱུར་ནིའི་ཁྱདཚད་ ལས་ མ་འགལ་བ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༢༣༽
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishThe citizens, without distinction of gender [sexo], have the right to participate in public matters, directly or through their representatives, in the form determined by this Constitution and the laws.
The access of women to public functions shall be promoted. (Art. 117) - SpanishLos ciudadanos, sin distinción de sexo, tienen el derecho a participar en los asuntos públicos, directamente o por medio de sus representantes, en la forma que determine esta Constitución y las leyes.
Se promoverá el acceso de la mujer a las funciones públicas. (Art. 117)
Political Rights and Association
- EnglishSovereignty belongs to the people who exercise it by their representatives or by way [voie] of referendum. No section of the people nor any individual may arrogate its exercise.
Suffrage may be direct or indirect within the conditions provided for by the Constitution and the law. It is always universal, equal and secret.
All Comorians of the two sexes enjoying their civil and political rights[,] are electors, within the conditions determined by the law. (Art. 3) - Arabicالسيادة للشعب الذي يمارسها من خلال ممثليه أو عن طريق الاستفتاء. لا يجوز أن يعزو أي قسم من الشعب ولا أي فرد ممارستها.
يكون الاقتراع مباشراً أو غير مباشر في إطار الشروط التي ينص عليها الدستور والقانون وهو دائماً شاملاً ومتساوياً وسرياً.
جميع القمريين المتمتعين بحقوقهم المدنية والسياسية هم ناخبون في إطار الشروط المحددة في القانون. (المادة 3) - FrenchLa souveraineté appartient au peuple qui l'exerce par ses représentants et par la voie du referendum. Aucune section du peuple ni aucun individu ne peut s’en attribuer l’exercice.
Le suffrage peut être direct ou indirect dans les conditions prévues par la constitution et la loi. Il est toujours universel, égal et secret.
Sont électeurs, dans les conditions déterminées par la loi, tous les Comoriens des deux sexes jouissant de leurs droits civils et politiques. (Art. 3)
Political Rights and Association
- English
(1) Any person who is registered as an elector in any constituency shall be entitled to vote in such manner as may be prescribed at any election for that constituency
… (Sec. 56)