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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishParents have the natural right and the duty to raise their children. They are sustained in this effort, by the State and the public collectivities. … (Art. 20)
- FrenchLes parents ont le droit naturel et le devoir d'élever leurs enfants. Ils sont soutenus, dans cette tâche, par l'Etat et les collectivités publiques. ... (Art. 20)
Marriage and Family Life
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3. All persons within the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina shall enjoy the human rights and fundamental freedoms referred to in paragraph 2 above; these include:
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f) The right to private and family life, home, and correspondence.
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j) The right to marry and to found a family.
… (Art. II) - Bosnian…
3. Sva lica na teritoriji Bosne i Hercegovine uživaju ljudska prava i slobode iz stava 2. ovog člana, što uključuje:
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f) Pravo na privatni i porodični život, dom i prepisku.
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j) Pravo na brak i zasnivanje porodice.
… (Član II) - Croatian…
3. Sve osobe na teritoriju Bosne i Hercegovine uživaju ljudska prava i temeljne slobode iz ovog članka, stavak 2 što uključuje:
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f) Pravo na privatni i obiteljski život, dom i dopisivanje.
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j) Pravo na ženidbu i udadbu, te osnivanje obitelji.
… (Članak II) - Serbian…
3. Сва лица на територији Босне и Херцеговине уживају људска права и основне слободе из става 2 овог члана, а она обухватају:
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f) ф) Право на приватни и породични живот, дом и преписку.
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ј) Право на брак и заснивање породице.
… (Члан II)
Marriage and Family Life
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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
- EnglishThe following are the fundamental obligations of the State:
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d. To see to the raising of the standard of living of all the inhabitants of the country, securing [procurando] the wellbeing of the family;
… (Art. 119) - SpanishSon obligaciones fundamentales del Estado:
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d) Velar por la elevación del nivel de vida de todos los habitantes del país, procurando el bienestar de la familia;
… (Art. 119)
Marriage and Family Life
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The Parliament legislates within the domains attributed to it by the Constitution, as well as the following domains:
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2.the general rules concerning personal status and to family law; and notably to marriage, to divorce, to filiation, to capacity and to inheritance;
… (Art. 139) - Arabic
يُشرّع البرلمان في الميادين الّتي يخصّصه له الدّستور، وكذلك في المجالات الآتية:
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2. القـواعد العامة المتعلّقة بالأحوال الشّخصيّة والأسرة ، لا سيما منها الزّواج والطّلاق والنسب والأهلية والتّركات،
… (المــادة 139) - French
Le Parlement légifère dans les domaines que lui attribue la Constitution, ainsi que dans les domaines suivants:
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2)- les règles générales relatives au statut personnel et au droit de la famille ; notamment au mariage, au divorce, à la filiation, à la capacité et aux successions;
... (Art. 139)
Marriage and Family Life
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3. No death penalty shall be executed upon a pregnant or lactating woman, save after two years of lactation. (Art. 21)
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Parents have the deciding say in the choice of education for their children.
… (Sec. 37) - Estonian…
Laste hariduse valikul on otsustav sõna vanematel.
… (§ 37)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEach Burundian has the duty to preserve the harmonious development of the family and to act [œuvrer] in favor of the cohesion and the respect for that family, to respect at every moment their parents, to nourish them and to assist them in case of necessity. (Art. 66)
- KirundiUmurundi wese ategerezwa gushigikira iterambere ry’umuryango n’ugukora atiziganya kugira ngo uwo muryango ugume ufatanye mu nda kandi ugumane icubahiro. Ategerezwa kwama asonera abamwibarutse, akabaronsa imfugurwa, akabafasha, akabaraba igihe cose bikenewe. (Ingingo ya 66)
- FrenchChaque burundais a le devoir de préserver le développement harmonieux de la famille et d’oeuvrer en faveur de la cohésion et du respect de cette famille, de respecter à tout moment ses parents, de les nourrir et de les assister en cas de nécessité. (Art. 66)
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The law establishes the rules concerning:
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- … the status and capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
- the family code;
… (Art. 127) - Arabic...
يرسي القانون القواعد المتعلقة:
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- ... بحالة وقدرة الأشخاص وأنظمة الزواج والإرث والهدايا؛
ـ قانون الأسرة؛
... (المادة 127) - French…
La loi fixe les règles concernant:
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et les libéralités;
- le code de la famille;
… (Art. 127)
Marriage and Family Life
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3. The State shall protect women and their rights, taking into account their unique status and natural maternal functions in society.
… (Art. 33)