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Protection from Violence
- EnglishMaternal and childhood welfare are national duties. Children shall have the right to:
1. Comprehensive protection and welfare.
2. Not to be exploited for any purpose whatsoever, and not to be permitted to perform work that might damage their safety, health or education.
3. Protection from harmful and cruel treatment.
4. Not to be subjected to beating or cruel treatment by their relatives.
… (Art. 29) - Arabicرعاية الأمومة والطفولة واجب وطني، وللأطفال الحق في:
الحماية والرعاية الشاملة.
1- أن لا يستغلوا لأي غرض كان ولا يسمح لهم بالقيام بعمل يلحق ضرراً بسلامتهـم أو بصحتهم أو بتعليمهم.
3- الحماية من الإيذاء والمعاملة القاسية .
4- يحرم القانون تعريض الأطفال للضرب والمعاملة القاسيتين من قبل ذويهم.
… (المادّة 29)
Protection from Violence
- English
The State protects women against all forms of violence in all places and in all circumstances in the public space, in the professional sphere and in the private sphere. The law guarantees the access of victims to supportive structures [structures d’accueuil], to mechanisms [dispositifs] of taking responsibility, and to judicial assistance. (Art. 40)
- Arabic
تحمي الدولة المرأة من كل أشكال العنـف في كل الأماكن والظروف، في الفضاء العمومي وفي المجالين المهني والخاص. ويضمن القانون استفادة الضحايا من هياكل الاستقبال ومن أنظمة التكفل، ومن مساعدة قضائية. (المادة 40)
- French
L’Etat protège la femme contre toutes formes de violence en tous lieux et en toute circonstance dans l’espace public, dans la sphère professionnelle et dans la sphère privée. La loi garantit l’accès des victimes à des structures d’accueil, à des dispositifs de prise en charge, et à une assistance judiciaire. (Art. 40)
Protection from Violence
- English
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Activities of political parties aiming at forced overthrow of constitutional system, violation of guaranteed human or minority rights, inciting racial, national or religious hatred, shall be prohibited.
… (Art. 5) - Serbian Cyrillic
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Недопуштено је деловање политичких странака које је усмерено на насилно рушење уставног поретка, кршење зајемчених људских или мањинских права или изазивање расне, националне или верске мржње.
… (Члан 5)
Protection from Violence
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3. Armed associations of a military or paramilitary nature, as well as associations that promote violence, racism, xenophobia or pursue aims that are against the law, shall be prohibited. (Art. 52) - Portuguese…
3. São proibidas as associações armadas de tipo militar ou paramilitar e as que promovam a violência, o racismo, a xenofobia ou que prossigam fins contrários à lei. (Art. 52)
Protection from Violence
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4. It shall be prohibited to hire children under the age of 16 for full-time employment. The procedure and conditions of hiring them for part-time employment shall be stipulated by law.
5. Forced or compulsory labor shall be prohibited.
… (Art. 57) - Armenian…
4. Մինչև տասնվեց տարեկան երեխաներին մշտական աշխատանքի ընդունելն արգելվում է: Նրանց ժամանակավոր աշխատանքի ընդունման կարգը և պայմանները սահմանվում են օրենքով։
5. Պարտադիր կամ հարկադիր աշխատանքն արգելվում է:
… (Հոդված 57)
Protection from Violence
- English… The establishment and activity of public associations and political parties which encourage racism, nationalism, social and religious enmity, and hatred, as well as advocate the forcible overthrow of the constitutional state structures and the formation of armed groups shall be prohibited. ... (Art. 8)
- Russian… Создание и деятельность общественных объединений и политических партий, пропагандирующих расовую, национальную, социальную и религиозную вражду или призывающих к насильственному свержению конституционного строя и организации вооруженных групп, запрещаются. ... (Статья 8)
- Tajik… Таъсис ва фаъолияти иттиҳодияҳои ҷамъиятӣ ва ҳизбҳои сиёсие, ки нажодпарастӣ, миллатгароӣ, хусумат, бадбинии иҷтимоӣ ва мазҳабиро тарғиб мекунанд ва ё барои бо зӯрӣ сарнагун кардани сохтори конститутсионӣ ва ташкили гурӯҳҳои мусаллаҳ даъват менамоянд, манъ аст. ... (Моддаи 8)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
… (Sec. 7)
Protection from Violence
- English
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Forced labour shall be prohibited. (Art. 49) - Slovene
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Prisilno delo je prepovedano. (49. Člen)
Protection from Violence
- English
We, the People of Rwanda,
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(g) RESOLVED to prevent and punish the crime of genocide, fight genocide negationism and revisionism and eradicate genocide ideology and all its manifestations, divisionism and discrimination based on ethnicity, region or any other ground;
… (Preamble) - Kinyarwanda
Twebwe, Abanyarwanda,
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(g) TWIYEMEJE gukumira no guhana icyaha cya jenoside, kurwanya ihakana n’ipfobya bya jenoside, kurandura burundu ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside n’ibyo igaragariramo byose, amacakubiri n’ivangura bishingiye ku moko, ku turere cyangwa ku kindi icyo ari cyo cyose;
… (Irangashingiro) - French
Nous, Peuple Rwandais,
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(g) RÉSOLUS à prévenir et réprimer le crime de génocide, combattre le négationnisme et le révisionnisme du génocide et éradiquer l’idéologie du génocide et toutes ses manifestations ainsi que le divisionnisme et la discrimination basés sur l’ethnie, la région ou sur tout autre motif;
… (Préambule)
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།
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