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Protection from Violence
- English…
Every individual has the right to life, to the liberty, to the security and to the integrity of his person.
… (Art. 10) - Arabic...
يحق لكل فرد بالحياة والحرية والأمن وسلامة شخصه.
... (المادة 10) - French…
Tout individu a droit à la vie, à la liberté, à la sécurité et à l’intégrité de sa personne.
… (Art. 10)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No young person shall be employed and shall in no case be caused or permitted to engage in any occupation or employment which would prejudice his health or education or interfere with his physical, mental or moral development:
Provided that an Act of Parliament may provide for the employment of a young person for a wage under certain conditions.
2. All young persons shall be protected against physical or mental ill-treatment, all forms of neglect, cruelty or exploitation.
3. No young person shall be the subject of traffic in any form.
... (Art. 24)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishIt shall be prohibited to use fundamental rights and freedoms for the purpose of violently overthrowing the constitutional order or inciting national, racial, or religious hatred, or preaching violence or war. (Art. 77)
- ArmenianԱրգելվում է հիմնական իրավունքների և ազատությունների օգտագործումը սահմանադրական կարգը բռնի տապալելու, ազգային, ռասայական, կրոնական ատելություն բորբոքելու, բռնություն կամ պատերազմ քարոզելու նպատակով: (Հոդված 77)
Protection from Violence
- English… No citizen can be compelled to do any work except within the law, and in which case it is to serve the common interest and be in return for a fair wage. … (Art. 29)
- Arabicولكل مواطن الحق في ممارسة العمل الذي يختاره لنفسه في حدود القانون ولا يجوز فرض أي عمل جبراً على المواطنين إلا بمقتضى قانون ولأداء خدمة عامة وبمقابل أجر عادل، ... (المادّة 29) …
Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
… (Sec. 7)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) A person shall not be held in slavery or servitude.
(2) A person shall not be required to perform forced labour.
… (Sec. 17)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other such treatment.
… (Sec. 7)
Protection from Violence
- English
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5. A person shall not tolerate or participate in acts of injury, torture or killing of another person, terrorism, abuse of women, children or any other person and shall take necessary steps to prevent such acts.
… (Art. 8) - Dzongkha
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༥) མི་ངོ་ཅིག་གིས་ གཞན་ལུ་གནོད་འཚེའམ་ མནར་གཅོད་ སྲོག་གཅོད་ ཡང་ན་ དྲག་ཐོག་ དབང་བཙོང་ ཨམ་སྲུའམ་ ཨ་ལོ་ མི་ངོ་གཞན་ག་ལུ་ཨིན་རུང་ ལོག་སྤྱོད་སྒྲིག་པའི་བྱ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཟོད་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ནི་མེད་པ་ ཡང་ན་ གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད་པའི་ཁར་ དེ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བྱ་བ་ཚུ་ སྔོན་འགོག་ལུ་མཁོ་བའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་བསྒྲིག་དགོ།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༨༽
Protection from Violence
- English(1) Everyone shall be entitled to personal freedom and inviolability.
… (Art. 30) - Bulgarian(1) Всеки има право на лична свобода и неприкосновеност.
… (Чл. 30)
Protection from Violence
- English…
(4) Nothing in, or done under the authority of, a law shall be held to be inconsistent with, or in contravention of, this article to the extent that the law in question makes provision—
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(e) that is reasonably required for the purpose of safeguarding the people of Ghana against the teaching or propagation of a doctrine which exhibits or encourages disrespect for the nationhood of Ghana, the national symbols and emblems, or incites hatred against other members of the community;
except so far as that provision or, as the case may be, the thing done under the authority of that law is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in terms of the spirit of this Constitution.
… (Art. 21)