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Marriage and Family Life
- English
9. Social Sector
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(i) Maternal and child welfare;
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(l) Welfare of children, youths, women, the disabled, the aged and the homeless;
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(u) Registration of births and deaths.
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11. Judicial Sector
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(d) Civil Laws and procedures including contract, arbitration, actionable wrong, insolvency, trust and trustees, administrator and receiver, family laws, guardians and wards, transfer of property and inheritance;…
… (Schedule One, Union Legislative List [Section 96]) - Burmese
၉။ လူမှုရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဈ) မိခင်နှင့်ကလေးစောင့်ရှောက်ရေး၊
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(ဌ) ကလေးသူငယ်များ၊ လူငယ်များ၊ အမျိုးသမီးများ၊ မသန်မစွမ်းသူများ၊ သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများ၊ အခြေအနေမဲ့များအား စောင့်ရှောက်ရေး၊
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(ပ) မွေးဖွားခြင်းနှင့် သေဆုံးခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ မှတ်ပုံတင်ရေး။
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၁၁။ တရားစီရင်ရေးကဏ္ဍ
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(ဃ) တရားမဥပဒေများ၊ ကျင့်ထုံးများအပါအဝင်၊ ပဋိညာဉ်၊ အနုညာတ စီရင်ဆုံးဖြတ်ရေး၊ တရားစွဲဆိုပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသော နစ်နာချက်များ၊ လူမွဲအဖြစ်ခံယူခြင်း၊ ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံခြင်းနှင့် ယုံမှတ်အပ်နှံထားသဖြင့် စီမံပိုင်ခွင့်ရှိသူများ၊ အမွေထိန်းနှင့်ပစ္စည်းထိန်း၊ မိသားစုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေများ၊ အုပ်ထိန်းသူများနှင့် အုပ်ထိန်းခံရသူများ၊ ပစ္စည်းလွှဲပြောင်းခြင်း၊ အမွေဆက်ခံရေး၊...
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) Every child, that is to say every boy and girl under the age of eighteen years, has the right—
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(d) to family or parental care, or to appropriate care when removed from the family environment;
… (Sec. 81)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
The Nicaraguan State recognizes the person, the family and the community as the origin and the end of its activity, and it is organized to assure [asegurar] the common good, assuming the task of promoting the human development of all and each one of the Nicaraguans, under the inspiration of Christian values, socialist ideals, practices of solidarity, [and] democratic and humanistic [practices], as universal and general values, as well as the values and ideals of the Nicaraguan culture and identity. (Art. 4)
- Spanish
El Estado nicaragüense reconoce a la persona, la familia y la comunidad como el origen y el fin de su actividad, y está organizado para asegurar el bien común, asumiendo la tarea de promover el desarrollo humano de todos y cada uno de los nicaragüenses, bajo la inspiración de valores cristianos, ideales socialistas, prácticas solidarias, democráticas y humanísticas, como valores universales y generales, así como los valores e ideales de la cultura e identidad nicaragüense. (Art. 4)
Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The public authorities shall respect and protect the intimate, family and private life.
… (Art. 26) - Romanian(1) Autorităţile publice respectă şi ocrotesc viaţa intimă, familială şi privată.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Everyone shall have the right to the inviolability of his (her) private life, personal and family privacy, and protection of his (her) honour and good name.
… (Art. 23) - Russian1. Каждый имеет право на неприкосновенность частной жизни, личную и семейную тайну, защиту своей чести и доброго имени.
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Marriage and Family Life
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8) The State, according to its possibilities, guarantees to all, notably to the child, to the mother, to the handicapped, to the aged workers and to the elderly, the protection of health, social security, a preserved natural environment, rest and leisure;
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14) The family is the basic natural unit [cellule] of society; marriage, [the] union between two persons of different sex is the legitimate support of it. They are placed under the particular protection of the State;
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16) The support to be given to children and their education constitute for parents a natural right and a duty which they exercise under the surveillance and with the aid of the State and of the public collectivities.
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8°) L’Etat, selon ses possibilités, garantit à tous, notamment à l’enfant, à la mère, aux handicapés, aux vieux travailleurs et aux personnes âgées, la protection de la santé, la sécurité sociale, un environnement naturel préservé, le repos et les loisirs;
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14°) La famille est la cellule de base naturelle de la société, le mariage, union entre deux personnes de sexe différent, en est le support légitime. Ils sont placés sous la protection particulière de l'Etat.
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16°) Les soins à donner aux enfants et leur éducation constituent pour les parents, un droit naturel et un devoir qu’ils exercent sous la surveillance et avec l’aide de l’Etat et des collectivités publiques.
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the right of its citizens and their families in an emergency of in case of disease, disability and old age. … (Basic Law, Art. 27)
- Arabicتضمن الدولة حق المواطن وأسرته في حالة الطوارئ والمرض والعجز والشيخوخة. ... (النظام الأساسي ، المادة 27)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishI. Spouses or cohabitants have the duty, in equal conditions and by common effort, to attend to the maintenance and responsibility of the home, and to the education and development of the children while they are minors or have some disability.
II. The State shall protect and assist those who are responsible for the family in the exercise of their obligations. (Art. 64) - SpanishI. Los cónyuges o convivientes tienen el deber de atender, en igualdad de condiciones y mediante el esfuerzo común, el mantenimiento y responsabilidad del hogar, la educación y formación integral de las hijas e hijos mientras sean menores o tengan alguna discapacidad.
II. El Estado protegerá y asistirá a quienes sean responsables de las familias en el ejercicio de sus obligaciones. (Art. 64)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishRules of periodic adjustment of the minimum salary or wage of the worker shall be set by law, to cover the normal requirements of his/her family, to improve worker's standard of living according to specific conditions of each economic region and activity. The law may also determine the method of fixing minimum salaries or wages for professions or trades.
… (Art. 66) - SpanishLa Ley establecerá la manera de ajustar periódicamente el salario o sueldo mínimo del trabajador, con el fin de cubrir las necesidades normales de su familia, mejorar su nivel de vida, según las condiciones particulares de cada región y de cada actividad económica; podrá determinar asimismo el método para fijar salarios o sueldos mínimos por profesión u oficio.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The right to honour, to personal and family privacy and to the own image is guaranteed.
… (Sec. 18) - Spanish1. Se garantiza el derecho al honor, a la intimidad personal y familiar y a la propia imagen.
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