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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) The raising and upbringing of children until they come of legal age shall be a right and obligation of their parents and shall be assisted by the State.
(2) Mothers shall be the object of special protection on the part of the State and shall be guaranteed prenatal and postnatal leave, free obstetric care, alleviated working conditions and other social assistance.
(3) Children born out of wedlock shall enjoy equal rights with those born in wedlock.
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(5) The conditions and procedure for the restriction or suspension of parental rights shall be established by law. (Art. 47) - Bulgarian(1) Отглеждането и възпитанието на децата до пълнолетието им е право и задължение на техните родители и се подпомага от държавата.
(2) Жената майка се ползва от особената закрила на държавата, която й осигурява платен отпуск преди и след раждане, безплатна акушерска помощ, облекчаване на труда и други социални помощи.
(3) Децата, родени извън брака, имат равни права с родените в брака.
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(5) Условията и редът за ограничаване или отнемане на родителските права се определя със закон. (Чл. 47)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishAll persons are entitled to Social Security as a nonprofit public service to guarantee health and protection in contingencies of maternity, fatherhood, illness, invalidity, catastrophic illness, disability, special needs, occupational risks, loss of employment, unemployment, old age, widowhood, loss of parents, housing, burdens deriving from family life, and any other social welfare circumstances. The State has the obligation and responsibility of ensuring the efficacy of this right, creating a universal and complete Social Security system, with joint, unitary, efficient and participatory financing from direct and indirect contributions. The lack of ability to contribute shall not be ground for excluding persons from protection by the system. … (Art. 86)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho a la seguridad social como servicio público de carácter no lucrativo, que garantice la salud y asegure protección en contingencias de maternidad, paternidad, enfermedad, invalidez, enfermedades catastróficas, discapacidad, necesidades especiales, riesgos laborales, pérdida de empleo, desempleo, vejez, viudedad, orfandad, vivienda, cargas derivadas de la vida familiar y cualquier otra circunstancia de previsión social. El Estado tiene la obligación de asegurar la efectividad de este derecho, creando un sistema de seguridad social universal, integral, de financiamiento solidario, unitario, eficiente y participativo, de contribuciones directas o indirectas. La ausencia de capacidad contributiva no será motivo para excluir a las personas de su protección. … (Art. 86)
Marriage and Family Life
- English1. The state shall promote and guarantee the measures needed to ensure the universal right to medical and health care, as well as the right to child care and maternity care, care in illness, disability, old age and in situations in which they are unable to work, in accordance with the law.
… (Art. 77) - Portuguese1. O Estado promove e garante as medidas necessárias para assegurar a todos o direito à assistência médica e sanitária, bem como o direito à assistência na infância, na maternidade, na invalidez, na deficiência, na velhice e em qualquer situação de incapacidade para o trabalho, nos termos da lei.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, creed or social or economic status shall have the right to marry and to found a family. They shall be entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. (Art. 14)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishUnpaid work of self-sustenance and care-giving, carried out in the home, is recognized as productive work.
The State shall strive towards a labor system that works in harmony with the needs for human care-giving, and that facilitates suitable services, infrastructure and work schedules; it shall, in particular, provide services for child care, care for persons with disabilities, and other services as needed for workers to be able to perform their labor activities; it shall furthermore foster the joint responsibility and reciprocity of men and women in domestic work and family obligations.
Social service protection shall be progressively extended to persons who are responsible for unpaid family work at home, in accordance with the general conditions of the system and the law. (Art. 333) - SpanishSe reconoce como labor productiva el trabajo no remunerado de autosustento y cuidado humano que se realza en los hogares.
El Estado promoverá un régimen laboral que funcione en armonía con las necesidades del cuidado humano, que facilite servicios, infraestructura y horarios de trabajo adecuados; de manera especial, proveerá servicios de cuidado infantil, de atención a las personas con discapacidad y otros necesarios para que las personas trabajadoras puedan desempeñar sus actividades laborales; e impulsará la corresponsabilidad y reciprocidad de hombres y mujeres en el trabajo doméstico y en las obligaciones familiares.
La protección de la seguridad social se extenderá de manera progresiva a las personas que tengan a su cargo el trabajo familiar no remunerado en el hogar, conforme a las condiciones generales del sistema y la ley. (Art. 333)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishStatutes shall determine the rules concerning:
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- … the status and capacity of persons, matrimonial property systems, inheritance and gifts;
… (1958 Constitution, Art. 34) - FrenchLa loi fixe les règles concernant:
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- … l'état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et libéralités;
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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.
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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།
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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. Everyone shall have the right to enter into matrimony, in civil or religious form.
2. The law shall regulate the requirements, the civil effects of marriage and its dissolution, irrespective of the form of its celebration.
3. Spouses shall have equal civil and political rights and duties.
4. Children shall only be separated from their parents through judicial decision and strictly in cases foreseen in the law, should the parents not comply with their fundamental duties towards them.
5. The discrimination against children born out of wedlock or the use of any discriminatory designation with respect to parenting shall not be allowed.
6. Adoption shall be allowed, with the law regulating its forms and conditions. (Art. 47) - Portuguese1. Todos têm direito de contrair casamento, sob forma civil ou religiosa.
2. A lei regula os requisitos e os efeitos civis do casamento e da sua dissolução, independentemente da forma de celebração.
3. Os cônjuges têm iguais direitos e deveres civis e políticos.
4. Os filhos só podem ser separados dos pais, por decisão judicial e sempre nos casos previstos na lei, se estes não cumprirem os seus deveres fundamentais para com eles.
5. Não é permitida a discriminação dos filhos nascidos fora do casamento, nem a utilização de qualquer designação discriminatória relativa à filiação.
6. É permitida a adopção, devendo a lei regular as suas formas e condições. (Art. 47)
Marriage and Family Life
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(1) The family, being the natural foundation of the Rwandan society, is protected by the State.
(2) Both parents have the right and responsibility to raise their children.
(3) The State puts in place appropriate legislation and organs for the protection of the family, particularly the child and mother, in order to ensure that the family flourishes. (Art. 18) - Kinyarwanda
(1) Umuryango, ari wo shingiro kamere ry’imbaga y’Abanyarwanda, urengerwa na Leta.
(2) Ababyeyi bombi bafite uburenganzira n’inshingano zo kurera abana babo.
(3) Leta ishyiraho amategeko n’inzego bikwiye bishinzwe kurengera umuryango, by’umwihariko umwana na nyina, kugira ngo umuryango ugire ubwisanzure. (Ingingo ya 18) - French
(1) La famille, base naturelle de la société rwandaise, est protégée par l’État.
(2) Les deux parents ont le droit et la responsabilité d’élever leurs enfants.
(3) L’État met en place une législation et des organes appropriés pour la protection de la famille, de l’enfant et de la mère en particulier, en vue de l’épanouissement de la famille. (Art. 18)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State guarantees the social, economic, and juridical protection of the family. It will promote its organization on the legal basis of marriage, the equal rights of the spouses, [the] responsible paternity and the right of the persons to decide freely the number and the spacing [espaciamiento] of their children. (Art. 47)
- SpanishEl Estado garantiza la protección social, económica y jurídica de la familia. Promoverá su organización sobre la base legal del matrimonio, la igualdad de derechos de los cónyuges, la paternidad responsable y el derecho de las personas a decir libremente el número y espaciamiento de sus hijos. (Art. 47)