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Protection from Violence
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The human body is inviolable. Assaulting, mutilating, or desecrating it shall be a crime punishable by the law. Trafficking in its organs is prohibited. It is not permitted to conduct any medical or scientific experiment on any human being without his free consent in the manner governed by the law. (Art. 32)
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لجسد الإنسان حرمة، والاعتداء عليه أو تشويهه أو التمثيل به جريمة يعاقب عليها القانون، ويحظر الاتجار بأعضائه، ولا يجوز إجراء أي تجربة طبية أو علمية على أي إنسان بدون رضائه الحر، وذلك على النحو الذي ينظمه القانون. (المادّة ٣٢)
Protection from Violence
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(7) Any defamation of the country and the nation, any instigation to a war of aggression, to national, racial, class or religious hatred, any incitement to discrimination, territorial separatism, or public violence, as well as any obscene conduct contrary to morality shall be prohibited by law.
… (Art. 30) - Romanian…
(7) Sunt interzise de lege defăimarea ţării şi a naţiunii, îndemnul la război de agresiune, la ură naţională, rasială, de clasă sau religioasă, incitarea la discriminare, la separatism teritorial sau la violenţă publică, precum si manifestările obscene, contrare bunelor moravuri.
… (Art. 30)
Protection from Violence
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The protection of life, security, and physical integrity are guaranteed.
Slavery, slavery-like practices, inhuman and cruel, degrading and humiliating treatments, physical or moral torture, services and mistreatments inflicted on children and all forms of the degradation of Man [,] are forbidden and punished by the law. (Art. 2) - French
La protection de la vie, la sûreté et l'intégrité physique sont garanties.
Sont interdits et punis par la loi, l'esclavage, les pratiques esclavagistes, les traitements inhumains et cruels, dégradants et humiliants, la torture physique ou morale, les sévices et les mauvais traitements infligés aux enfants et toutes les formes d'avilissement de l'Homme. (Art. 2)
Protection from Violence
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The State of Rwanda commits itself to upholding and ensuring respect for the following fundamental principles:
(a) prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, fight against denial and revisionism of genocide as well as eradication of genocide ideology and all its manifestations;
… (Art. 10) - Kinyarwanda
Leta y’u Rwanda yiyemeje kugendera ku mahame remezo akurikira no gutuma yubahirizwa:
(a) gukumira no guhana icyaha cya jenoside, kurwanya ihakana n’ipfobya bya jenoside no kurandura burundu ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside n’ibyo igaragariramo byose;
… (Ingingo ya 10) - French
L’État du Rwanda s’engage à se conformer aux principes fondamentaux suivants et à les faire respecter:
(a) la prévention et répression du crime de génocide, la lutte contre le négationnisme et le révisionnisme du génocide ainsi que l’éradication de l’idéologie du génocide et toutes ses manifestations;
… (Art. 10)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishWork will be regulated by a Code which shall have as [its] principal objective the harmonizing of the relations between the employers [patronos] and [the] workers, establishing their rights and obligations. It shall be founded in general principles that tend to the improvement of the living conditions of the workers, and will especially include the following rights:
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10) The minors of fourteen years of age or less, and those that having reached this age still remain subject to obligatory education by virtue of the law, may not be occupied in any type of work.
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The workday of the minors of sixteen years of age cannot be more than six hours a day and thirty-four hours a week, in any kind of work.
Unhealthy or dangerous work is prohibited for persons under eighteen years of age and for women. Night work is also prohibited for persons under eighteen years of age.
The law will determine the dangerous and unhealthy labors;
… (Art. 38) - SpanishEl trabajo estará regulado por un Código que tendrá por objeto principal armonizar las relaciones entre patronos y trabajadores, estableciendo sus derechos y obligaciones. Estará fundamentado en principios generales que tiendan al mejoramiento de las condiciones de vida de los trabajadores, e incluirá especialmente los derechos siguientes:
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10º Los menores de catorce años, y los que habiendo cumplido esa edad sigan sometidos a la enseñanza obligatoria en virtud de la ley, no podrán ser ocupados en ninguna clase de trabajo.
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La jornada de los menores de dieciséis años no podrá ser mayor de seis horas diarias y de treinta y cuatro semanales, en cualquier clase de trabajo.
Se prohíbe el trabajo a los menores de dieciocho años y a las mujeres en labores insalubres o peligrosas. También se prohíbe el trabajo nocturno a los menores de dieciocho años.
La ley determinará las labores peligrosas o insalubres;
… (Art. 38)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe State shall ensure the security of all its citizens and expatriates living within its domains. … (Basic Law, Art. 36)
- Arabicتوفر الدولة الأمن لجميع مواطنيها ﻭﺍﻟﻤﻘﻴﻤﻴﻥ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺇﻗﻠﻴﻤﻬﺎ. ... (النظام الأساسي، المادة 36)
Protection from Violence
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Children under 15 years of age may not be employed, nor may children under 18 years of age be employed at jobs detrimental to their health or morals. (Art. 66) - Serbian Cyrillic
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Деца млађа од 15 година не могу бити запослена нити, ако су млађа од 18 година, могу да раде на пословима штетним по њихово здравље или морал. (Члан 66)
Protection from Violence
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3. Children shall also have the right to special protection against:
a) Any form of discrimination and oppression;
b) Abusive exercise of authority in the family and in other institutions to which they may be entrusted;
c) Child labor exploitation;
d) Sexual abuse and exploitation.
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6. The law shall punish especially, as serious crimes, sexual abuse and exploitation as well as child trafficking.
7. The law shall punish, equally, as serious crimes extreme cruelty and other acts susceptible to affecting gravely the physical and/or psychological integrity of children. (Art. 74) - Portuguese…
3. As crianças têm ainda direito a especial protecção contra:
a) Qualquer forma de discriminação e de opressão;
b) O exercício abusivo da autoridade na família e nas demais instituições a que estejam confiadas;
c) A exploração de trabalho infantil;
d) O abuso e a exploração sexual.
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6. A lei pune especialmente, como crimes graves, o abuso e exploração sexuais e o tráfico de crianças.
7. A lei pune, igualmente, como crimes graves as sevícias e os demais actos susceptíveis de afectar gravemente a integridade física e ou psicológica das crianças. (Art. 74)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be subject to any form of torture or any punishment or other treatment which is inhuman or degrading.
… (Sec. 20)
Protection from Violence
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2. Subject to sections 18 and 49, and to subsections (9) and (12) of this section, and save only as may be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society-
a. this Chapter12 guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in subsections (3) and (6) of this section and in sections 14, 15, 16 and 17; and
b. Parliament shall pass no law and no organ of the State shall take any action which abrogates, abridges or infringes those rights.
3. The rights and freedoms referred to in subsection (2) are as follows-
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a. the right to life, liberty and security of the person
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o. the right to, protection from torture, or inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment as provided in subsections (6) and (7);
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6. No person shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
7. Nothing contained in or done under the authority of any law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of subsection (6) to the extent that the law in question authorizes the infliction of any description of punishment which was lawful in Jamaica immediately before the commencement of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Constitutional Amendment) Act, 2011.
… (Sec. 13)