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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishParents shall be obliged to support and care for their children until the latter are of age. … (Art. 64)
- UzbekOta-onalar o‘z farzandlarini voyaga yetgunlariga qadar boqish va tarbiyalashga majburdirlar. ... (64-modda)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
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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
- English(1) Anything done or omitted which would otherwise constitute a breach of any of the provisions of this Part17 shall not constitute such a breach if—
(a) it is done or omitted in good faith for the purpose of assisting or advancing persons or groups of persons, being in each case persons against whom discrimination is unlawful by virtue of this Part; and
(b) those persons or groups need or may reasonably be supposed to need assistance or advancement in order to achieve an equal place with other members of the community.
(2) Nothing in this Part—
(a) limits the power of the Crown to establish or arrange work or training schemes or employment assistance measures, eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status; or
(b) makes it unlawful for any person to recruit or refer any other person who is of a particular age or of a particular employment status or of a particular family status for any work or training scheme or employment assistance measure that is established or arranged by the Crown, the eligibility for which may, in whole or in part, be determined by a person’s age, employment status, or family status. (Human Rights Act 1993, Sec. 73)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe family, natural and fundamental element of the society, is protected by the State.
All individuals have the right to found a family and to transmit by inheritance their personal assets. (Art. 20) - FrenchLa famille, élément naturel et fondamental de la société, est protégée par l'Etat.
Tout individu a le droit de fonder une famille et de transmettre en héritage ses biens personnels. (Art. 20)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWomen and men have equal rights and responsibilities in the economic, political, cultural, occupational, social, and familial domains, as well as in any other domain. The State guarantees that both will be offered the same opportunities and possibilities.
… (Art. 43) - SpanishLa mujer y el hombre tienen iguales derechos y responsabilidades en lo económico, político, cultural, laboral, social, familiar y en cualquier otro ámbito. El Estado garantiza que se ofrezcan a ambos las mismas oportunidades y posibilidades.
… (Art. 43)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe House of Representatives shall:
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2) consider draft laws, including … on marriage, family, childhood, maternity, paternity, upbringing, education
… (Art. 97) - BelarusianПалата прадстаўнікоў:
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2) разглядае праекты законаў, у тым ліку … аб шлюбе, сям’і, дзяцінстве, мацярынстве, бацькоўстве, выхаванні, адукацыі
… (Артыкул 97) - RussianПалата представителей:
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2) рассматривает проекты законов, в том числе … о браке, семье, детстве, материнстве, отцовстве, воспитании, образовании
… (Статья 97)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
(1) The Legislature may, by law, define, regulate, protect, safeguard, support, foster and promote the institution of marriage.
(2) Subject to any written law, the Government and any public authority may, in the exercise of their executive authority, protect, safeguard, support, foster and promote the institution of marriage.
(3) Nothing in Part 42 invalidates a law enacted before, on or after the date of commencement of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 3) Act 2022 by reason that the law —
(a) defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman; or
(b) is based on such a definition of marriage.
(4) Nothing in Part 4 invalidates an exercise of executive authority before, on or after the date of commencement of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment No. 3) Act 2022 by reason that the exercise is based on a definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. (Art. 156)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe public powers enact [élaborent] and implement the policies designed [destinées] for persons and for categories of specific needs. To this effect, it sees notably:
• to respond to [traiter] and provide for the vulnerability of certain categories of women and of mothers, of children, and of elderly persons;
… (Art. 34) - Arabicتقوم السّلطات العمومية بوضع وتفعيل سياسات موجّهة إلى الأشخاص والفئات من ذوي الاحتياجات الخصوصية ولهذا الغرض، تسهر خصوصاً على ما يلي:
• معالجة الأوضاع الهشّة لفئات من النّساء والأمّهات، وللأطفال والأشخاص المسنّين ،
… (الفصل 34)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following rights of persons are recognized and guaranteed:
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20. The right to personal and family intimacy.
… (Art. 66) - SpanishSe reconoce y garantizará a las personas:
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20. El derecho a la intimidad personal y familiar.
… (Art. 66)
Marriage and Family Life
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(2) Any person unable to support himself or his family shall, when no other person is responsible for his or their maintenance, be entitled to receive public assistance, provided that he shall comply with the obligations imposed by statute in such respect. (Sec. 75) - Danish…
Stk. 2. Den, der ikke selv kan ernære sig eller sine, og hvis forsørgelse ikke påhviler nogen anden, er berettiget til hjælp af det offentlige, dog mod at underkaste sig de forpligtelser, som loven herom påbyder. (§ 75)