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Protection from Violence
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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.
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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།
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Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
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Protection from Violence
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No one shall be subjected to torture, violence or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Nobody shall be subjected to medical and scientific experiments without his or her consent. (Art. 26) - Uzbek
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Hech kim qiynoqqa solinishi, zo‘ravonlikka, boshqa shafqatsiz, g‘ayriinsoniy yoki inson qadr-qimmatini kamsituvchi muomalaga yoxud jazoga duchor etilishi mumkin emas.
Hech kimda uning roziligisiz tibbiy va ilmiy tajribalar o‘tkazilishi mumkin emas. (26-modda)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.
2. No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.
… (Art. 4 of ECHR, Human Rights Act 1998 Schedule 1)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEveryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 7)
- FrenchChacun a droit à la vie, à la liberté et à la sécurité de sa personne; il ne peut être porté atteinte à ce droit qu’en conformité avec les principes de justice fondamentale. (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 7)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishNo person shall serve another against his will except he be undergoing punishment by law and any slave who may escape from a foreign country to Tonga (unless he be escaping from justice being guilty of homicide or theft or any great crime or involved in debt) shall be free from the moment he sets foot on Tongan soil for no person shall be in servitude under the protection of the flag of Tonga. (Clause 2)
- Tongan‘E ‘ikai ngaue fakatamaio‘eiki ‘e ha taha ki ha toko taha kapau ‘oku ‘ikai te ne loto ki ai ngata pe ‘i he ‘ene mo‘ua ki he lao pea ka hola ha popula mei ha fonua kehe ki Tonga ni (kapau ‘oku ‘ikai ko e hola mei he lao ‘o ha fonua ko e me‘a ‘i he ‘ene fakapo pe kaiha‘a pe ‘i he fai ha me‘a lahi pehē pe ha mo‘ua) te ne tau‘atāina leva ‘i he ‘ene tu‘uta ki Tonga ni koe‘uhi ‘e ‘ikai ‘aupito nofo fakapopula ha toko taha ‘oku nofo ‘i he malumalu ‘o e fuka ‘o Tonga. (Kupu 2)
Protection from Violence
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Work is a duty for every citizen[,] but no one can be constrained to [do] a specific task [travail déterminé] except in the case of the accomplishment of an exceptional service of general interest, [which is] equal for all within the conditions determined by the law. (Art. 19) - French…
Le travail est un devoir pour tout citoyen mais nul ne peut être contraint à un travail déterminé que dans le cas d'accomplissement d'un service exceptionnel d'intérêt général, égal pour tous dans les conditions déterminées par la loi. (Art. 19)
Protection from Violence
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The establishment and activities of political parties, as well as other public associations aimed at changing the constitutional order by force; or conducting propaganda for war, social, national, religious and racial enmity shall be prohibited. (Art. 5) - Belarusian
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Забараняецца стварэнне і дзейнасць палітычных партый, а таксама іншых грамадскіх аб’яднанняў, якія маюць на мэце гвалтоўнае змяненне канстытуцыйнага ладу ці вядуць прапаганду вайны, сацыяльнай, нацыянальнай, рэлігійнай і расавай варожасці. (Артыкул 5) - Russian
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Запрещается создание и деятельность политических партий, а равно других общественных объединений, имеющих целью насильственное изменение конституционного строя либо ведущих пропаганду войны, социальной, национальной, религиозной и расовой вражды. (Статья 5)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEvery person has the right not to be subjected to medical or scientific experimentation without that person's consent. (Bill of Rights Act 1990, Sec. 10)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishWhereas the People of Dominica—
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(b) respect the principles of social justice and therefore believe … that labour should not be exploited or forced by economic necessity to operate in inhumane conditions
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