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Obligations of the State
- EnglishGuatemala is a free, independent and sovereign State, organized to guarantee to its inhabitants the enjoyment of their rights and freedoms. … (Art. 140)
- SpanishGuatemala es un Estado libre, independiente y soberano, organizado para garantizar a sus habitantes el goce de sus derechos y de sus libertades. … (Art. 140)
Obligations of the State
- English1. The Republic of Cabo Verde shall be organized in a democratic State based on the rule of Law, the principles of popular sovereignty, pluralism of expression and democratic political organization and on the respect for fundamental rights and liberties.
… (Art. 2) - Portuguese1. A República de Cabo Verde organiza-se em Estado de direito democrático assente nos princípios da soberania popular, no pluralismo de expressão e de organização política democrática e no respeito pelos direitos e liberdades fundamentais.
… (Art. 2)
Obligations of the State
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(2) The State shall enact appropriate laws to assure—
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(b) the protection and promotion of all other basic human rights and freedoms, including the rights of the disabled, the aged, children and other vulnerable groups in development processes.
(3) In the discharge of the obligations stated in clause (2) of this article, the State shall be guided by international human rights instruments which recognize and apply particular categories of basic human rights to development processes.
… (Art. 37)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishWhosoever violates the provisions of the Constitution concerning human rights and fundamental freedoms shall be held personally liable and may not be exculpated by invoking a higher order. (Art. 20)
- CroatianTko se ogriješi o odredbe ovoga Ustava o temeljnim slobodama i pravima čovjeka i građanina, osobno je odgovoran i ne može se opravdati višim nalogom. (Članak 20)
Obligations of the State
- English(1) Organic laws are those relating to the development of fundamental rights …
(2) The approval, amendment or repeal of the organic laws shall require the overall majority of the Members of Congress in a final vote on the bill as a whole. (Sec. 81) - Spanish1. Son leyes orgánicas las relativas al desarrollo de los derechos fundamentales …
2. La aprobación, modificación o derogación de las leyes orgánicas exigirá mayoría absoluta del Congreso, en una votación final sobre el conjunto del proyecto. (Art. 81)
Obligations of the State
- EnglishWe, the people of South Africa …
We therefore, through our freely elected representatives, adopt this Constitution as the supreme law of the Republic so as to –
Heal the divisions of the past and establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights; … (Preamble)
Obligations of the State
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Paragraph 4. No proposal of amendment shall be considered which is aimed at abolishing:
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IV – individual rights and guarantees.
… (Art. 60) - Portuguese
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§ 4º Não será objeto de deliberação a proposta de emenda tendente a abolir:
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IV - os direitos e garantias individuais.
… (Art. 60)
Obligations of the State
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3. The State shall endeavour to create a civil society free of oppression, discrimination and violence, based on the rule of law, protection of human rights and dignity, and to ensure the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རིང་ལུགས་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ཆེ་ མཐོང་གི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ གཉའ་གནོན་དང་ཕྱོགས་རིས་ འཚེ་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་བཟོ་ནི་དང་ མི་སེར་གྱི་གཞི་རྟེན་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ དལ་དབང་ཚུ་ ངེས་གཏན་ཡོདཔ་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་ བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
... ༼རྩ་ཚན་༩༽
Obligations of the State
- English… The completion of this Constitution is the culmination of the people’s struggle on the road to freedom and democracy. It is a real embodiment of achievements, a response to shifts and changes, an evidence of organizing the march of the state towards the future, a regulator of the movement of its institutions and a source of legislation. All of this is attainable through a system of fundamental principles that enshrines independence, sovereignty and the rule of the people based on election, political and party pluralism and the protection of national unity, cultural diversity, public freedoms, human rights, social justice, equality, equal opportunities, citizenship and the rule of law, where the society and the citizen are the objective and purpose for which every national effort is dedicated. Preserving the dignity of the society and the citizen is an indicator of the civilization of the country and the prestige of the state. (Preamble)
- Arabic... ويأتي إنجاز هذا الدستور تتويجاً لنضال الشعب على طريق الحرية والديمقراطية وتجسيداً حقيقياً للمكتسبات واستجابة للتحولات والمتغيرات، ودليلاً يُنظم مسيرة الدولة نحو المستقبل، وضابطاً لحركة مؤسساتها ومَصدراً لتشريعاتها، وذلك من خلال منظومة من المبادئ الأساسية تُكرس الاستقلال والسيادة وحكم الشعب القائم على الانتخاب والتعددية السياسية والحزبية وحماية الوحدة الوطنية والتنوع الثقافي والحريات العامة وحقوق الإنسان والعدالة الاجتماعية والمساواة وتكافؤ الفرص والمواطنة وسيادة القانون، يكون فيها المجتمع والمواطن هدفاً وغاية يُكرَّس من أجلهما كل جهد وطني، ويُعد الحفاظ على كرامتهما مؤشراً لحضارة الوطن وهيبة الدّولة. (المقدّمة)
Obligations of the State
- English... Human rights and freedoms and their guarantees determine the essence and course of the activities of the State. The State is responsible to the individual for its activities. Affirming and ensuring human rights and freedoms are the main obligation of the State. (Art. 3)
- Ukrainian... Права і свободи людини та їх гарантії визначають зміст і спрямованість діяльності держави. Держава відповідає перед людиною за свою діяльність. Утвердження і забезпечення прав і свобод людини є головним обов'язком держави. (Стаття 3)