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Protection from Violence
- EnglishEveryone has the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, degrading, or disproportionately severe treatment or punishment. (Bill of Rights Act 1990, Sec. 9)
Protection from Violence
- English1. All citizens enjoy the inviolability of their persons.
… (Art. 38) - Portuguese1 - Todo o cidadão goza da inviolabilidade da sua pessoa.
… (Art. 38)
Protection from Violence
- English
1. All persons shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person and shall not be deprived of such rights except in accordance with the due process of law.
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17. A person shall not be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
༡) མི་ངོ་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ ཚེ་སྲོག་དང་ འདོད་དབང་ རང་སོའི་བདེ་སྲུང་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ རིམ་གྱིས་པ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་མ་གཏོགས་ ཐོབ་དབང་དེ་ཚུ་ལས་འབྲལ་ཐབས་བསྒྲིག་ནི་མེད།
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༡༧) མི་ཅིག་ལུ་ མནར་གཅོད་ ཡང་ན་ གདུག་རྩུབ་ མི་སྤྱོད་ལས་འགལ་བ་ དམའ་འབེབས་ཀྱི་ ཉེས་སྤྱོད་ ཡང་ན་ ཉེས་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་དབང་ལུ་བསྡུ་ནི་མེད།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Protection from Violence
- English(1) The inviolability of the person and of her privacy is guaranteed. They may be limited only in cases provided for by law.
(2) No one may be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. (Charter, Art. 7) - Czech(1) Nedotknutelnost osoby a jejího soukromí je zaručena. Omezena může být jen v případech stanovených zákonem.
(2) Nikdo nesmí být mučen ani podroben krutému, nelidskému nebo ponižujícímu zacházení nebo trestu. (Listina, Čl. 7)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishWE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on noncitizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest, to each of the following:
- (a) life, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law; and
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(c) freedom from inhuman treatment and forced labour;
… (Preamble, Basic Rights)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishActs of genocide are prohibited and shall be prevented and punished. (Sec. 17)
Protection from Violence
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Rural and urban properties in any region of the country where illegal plantations of psychotropic plants are found or the exploitation of slave labour as defined by law is uncovered shall be expropriated and assigned to agrarian reform and to low-income housing programs, with no indemnity to the owner and without prejudice to other sanctions set forth by law, with due regard, when appropriate, for the provisions of Article 5.
… (Art. 243) - Portuguese
As propriedades rurais e urbanas de qualquer região do País onde forem localizadas culturas ilegais de plantas psicotrópicas ou a exploração de trabalho escravo na forma da lei serão expropriadas e destinadas à reforma agrária e a programas de habitação popular, sem qualquer indenização ao proprietário e sem prejuízo de outras sanções previstas em lei, observado, no que couber, o disposto no art. 5º.
… (Art. 243)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishAll forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden. … (Art. 38)
- Persianهر گونه شکنجه برای گرفتن اقرار و یا کسب اطلاع ممنوع است. ... (اصل 38)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishNo one may be subjected to torture or any other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
No one shall be required to perform compulsory labour. (Art. 68) - IcelandicEngan má beita pyndingum né annarri ómannúðlegri eða vanvirðandi meðferð eða refsingu.
Nauðungarvinnu skal engum gert að leysa af hendi. (68. gr.)
Protection from Violence
- English
The State is responsible for the security of persons and of assets. (Art. 28)
- Arabic
الدولة مسؤولة على أمن األشخاص والممتلكات. (المادة 28)
- French
L'Etat est responsable de la sécurité des personnes et des biens. (Art. 28)