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- EnglishWHEREAS the people of Belize-
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(b) respect the principles of social justice and therefore believe that the operation of the economic system must result in the material resources of the community being so distributed as to subserve the common good, that there should be adequate means of livelihood for all, that labour should not be exploited or forced by economic necessity to operate in inhumane conditions but that there should be opportunity for advancement on the basis of recognition of merit, ability and integrity, that equal protection should be given to children regardless of their social status, and that a just system should be ensured to provide for education and health on the basis of equality;
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(e) require policies of state which protect and safeguard the unity, freedom, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Belize; which eliminate economic and social privilege and disparity among the citizens of Belize whether by race, ethnicity, colour, creed, disability or sex; which ensures gender equality; which protect the rights of the individual to life, liberty, basic education, basic health, the right to vote in elections, the right to work and the pursuit of happiness; which protect the identity, dignity and social and cultural values of Belizeans, including Belize's indigenous peoples; which preserve the right of the individual to the ownership of private property and the right to operate private businesses; which prohibit the exploitation of man by man or by the state; which ensure a just system of social security and welfare; which protect the environment; which promote international peace, security and co-operation among nations, the establishment of a just and equitable international economic and social order in the world with respect for international law and treaty obligations in the dealings among nations;
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Public Institutions and Services
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The citizens of Mongolia are guaranteed to exercise the following rights and freedoms:
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5/ the right to material and financial assistance in old age, disability, childbirth and childcare and in other circumstances as provided by law;
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11/ … The State shall protect the interests of the family, motherhood and the child;
… (Art. 16) - Mongolian
Монгол Улсын иргэн дараахь үндсэн эрх, эрх чөлөөг баталгаатай эдэлнэ:
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5) өндөр наслах, хөдөлмөрийн чадвар алдах, хүүхэд төрүүлэх, асрах болон хуульд заасан бусад тохиолдолд эд, мөнгөний тусламж авах эрхтэй;
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11) … Гэр бүл, эх нялхас, хүүхдийн ашиг сонирхлыг төр хамгаална;
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Public Institutions and Services
- English(1) Where under any law any person or authority has a discretion-
a. to decide whether or not any pension benefits shall be granted; or
b. to withhold, reduce in amount or suspend any such benefits that have been granted, those benefits shall be granted and may not be withheld, reduced in amount or suspended unless the Public Service Commission concurs in the refusal to grant the benefits or, as the case may be, in the decisions to withhold them, reduce them in amount or suspend them.
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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 judge or officer of the Supreme Court or public officers or for the widows, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service. (Sec. 89)
Public Institutions and Services
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The Republic of Serbia shall organise and provide for:
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10. system in areas of health care, social security, … system of public services;
… (Art. 97) - Serbian Cyrillic
Република Србија уређује и обезбеђује:
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10. систем у областима здравства, социјалне заштите, ... систем јавних служби;
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Public Institutions and Services
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c. The State guarantees the requisite social security for its citizens in old age, sickness, disability, orphanhood, widowhood or unemployment, and also provides them with social insurance and healthcare services. It strives to safeguard them against ignorance, fear and poverty.
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ج - تكفل الدولة تحقيق الضمان الاجتماعي اللازم للمواطنين في حالة الشيخوخة أو المرض أو العجز عن العمل أو اليتم أو الترمّل أو البطالة، كما تؤمّن لهم خدمات التأمين الاجتماعي والرّعاية الصحية، وتعمل على وقايتهم من براثن الجهل والخوف والفاقة.
(المادّة 5) …
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe function of the State in the economy consists of the following:
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7. To promote policies of equitable distribution of wealth and of the economic resources of the country, for the purpose of preventing inequality, social and economic exclusion, and to eradicate poverty in its multiple dimensions.
… (Art. 316) - SpanishLa función del Estado en la economía consiste en:
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7. Promover políticas de distribución equitativa de la riqueza y de los recursos económicos del país, con el objeto de evitar la desigualdad, la exclusión social y económica, y erradicar la pobreza en sus múltiples dimensiones.
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception. The natural and primary right and duty of parents in the rearing of the youth for civic efficiency and the development of moral character shall receive the support of the Government. (Art. II, Sec. 12)
- FilipinoKinikilala ng Estado ang kabanalan ng buhay pampamilya at dapat pangalagaan at patatagin ang pamilya bilang isang saligang institusyon ng lipunan. Dapat nitong pangalagaan kapwa ang buhay ng ina at ang buhay ng sanggol sa sinapupunan mula sa paglilihi. Ang likas at pangunahing karapatan at tungkulin ng mga magulang sa pagmumulat ng kabataan para sa kahusayang sibiko at pagpapaunlad ng karakter na moral ay dapat tumanggap ng tangkilik ng Pamahalaan. (Art. II, Seksyon 12)
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.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe Union, States and Federal District shall have concurrent power to legislate on:
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XII. social security and protection and defense of health;
… (Art. 24) - PortugueseCompete à União, aos Estados e ao Distrito Federal legislar concorrentemente sobre:
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XII - previdência social, proteção e defesa da saúde;
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Public Institutions and Services
- EnglishThe State shall provide immediate and adequate care, benefits, and other forms of assistance to war veterans and veterans of military campaigns, their surviving spouses and orphans.
… (Art. XVI, Sec. 7) - FilipinoAng Estado ay dapat maglaan ng kagyat at sapat na pangangalaga, mga benepisyo, at iba pang mga anyo ng tulong sa mga beterano ng digmaan at mga beterano ng mga kampanyang militar, kanilang mga balo at mga naulila.
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