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Limitations and/or Derogations
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The suppression or the diminishment of the fundamental rights of the person may not be submitted to referendum, … (Art. 32) - Spanish
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No pueden someterse a referéndum la supresión o la disminución de los derechos fundamentales de la persona, … (Art. 32)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishUpon the imposition of martial law or the declaration of a state of emergency, the rights and freedoms specified in Articles 22, 24, 25, 32, 35, and 36 of the Constitution may temporarily be limited. (Art. 145)
- LithuanianĮvedus karo ar nepaprastąją padėtį, laikinai gali būti apribojamos teisės ir laisvės, nurodytos Konstitucijos 22, 24, 25, 32, 35 ir 36 straipsniuose. (145 straipsnis)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English(1) Nothing contained in or done under the authority of Article 267 hereof shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of this Constitution to the extent that it authorises the taking of measures during any period when Namibia is in a state of national defence or any period when a declaration of emergency under this Constitution is in force.
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(3) Nothing contained in this Article shall permit a derogation from or suspension of the fundamental rights or freedoms referred to in Articles 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19 and 21 (1)(a), (b), (c) and (e) hereof, or the denial of access by any persons to legal practitioners or a Court of law. (Art. 24)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- Englisha. Emergency powers do not include the power to suspend or abrogate the Constitution, dissolve the Legislature, or suspend or dismiss the Judiciary; and no constitutionals amendment shall be promulgated during a state of emergency. Where the Legislature is not in session, it must be convened immediately in special session and remain in session during the entire period of the state of emergency.
b. The writ of habeas corpus shall remain available and exercisable at all times and shall not be suspended on account of any state of emergency. It shall be enjoyed in the most free, easy, inexpensive, expeditious and ample manner. Any person who suffers from a violation of this right may challenge such violation in a court of competent jurisdiction. (Art. 87)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishEveryone has the right to the free development of his or her own personality, subject only to the limitations deriving from the rights of others and public and social order. (Art. 20)
- SpanishToda persona tiene derecho al libre desenvolvimiento de su personalidad, sin más limitaciones que las que derivan del derecho de las demás y del orden público y social. (Art. 20)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English1. The fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution shall not exclude any others set out in applicable international laws and legal rules.
2. The constitutional precepts concerning fundamental rights must be interpreted and completed in harmony with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Art. 16) - Portuguese1. Os direitos fundamentais consagrados na Constituição não excluem quaisquer outros constantes das leis e das regras aplicáveis de direito internacional.
2. Os preceitos constitucionais e legais relativos aos direitos fundamentais devem ser interpretados e integrados de harmonia com a Declaração Universal dos Direitos do Homem. (Art. 16)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishWhere a right or freedom contained in this Charter is subject to any limitation, restriction or qualification, that limitation, restriction or qualification−
(a) shall have no wider effect than is strictly necessary in the circumstances; and
(b) shall not be applied for any purpose other than that for which it has been prescribed. (Art. 47)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- EnglishThe public rights and freedoms stated in this Constitution may only be regulated or limited by or in accordance with the law, and such regulation or limitation may not prejudice the essence of the right or freedom. (Art. 31)
- Arabicلا يكــون تـنظيــم الحقـــوق والحريات العامة المنصوص عليهـا في هذا الدستور أو تحديدها إلا بقانون، أو بناءً عليه. ولا يجــوز أن ينال التـنظيم أو التحديد من جوهر الحق أو الحرية. (المادّة 31)
Limitations and/or Derogations
- English
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22. Notwithstanding the rights conferred by this Constitution, nothing in this Article [Fundamental Rights] shall prevent the State from subjecting reasonable restriction by law, when it concerns:
a. The interests of the sovereignty, security, unity and integrity of Bhutan;
b. The interests of peace, stability and well-being of the nation;
c. The interests of friendly relations with foreign States;
d. Incitement to an offence on the grounds of race, sex, language, religion or region;
e. The disclosure of information received in regard to the affairs of the State or in discharge of official duties; or
f. The rights and freedom of others.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
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༢༢) རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་འདི་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ཐོབ་དབང་ལུ་མ་ལྟོས་པར་ རྩ་ཚན་འདི་ནང་བཀོད་མི་གང་རུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་རྒྱུ་མཚན་ལྡན་པའི་བཀག་དམ་གྱི་དབང་ལུ་བསྡུ་ནི་ལས་ སྔོན་འགོག་འབད་ནི་མེད་པའི་འབྲེལ་གནད་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་གི་རང་བཙན་དང་ བདེ་སྲུང་ གཅིག་མཐུན་ གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་གྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར་ ཡང་ན།
ཁ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ བརྟན་གཞི་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ཀྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར།
ག༽ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཚུ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཛའ་བཤེས་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་མཐའ་དོན་སྐོར།
ང་༽ རིགས་རུས་ ཡང་ན་ ཕོ་མོ་ སྐད་ཡིག་ ཆོས་ལུགས་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་བཅས་ཀྱི་གཞི་ གནད་ཐོག་ གནོད་འགེལ་ཅིག་ནང་ ངན་བསྐུལ་སྐོར།
ཅ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་འབྲེལ་དོན་སྐོར་ ཡང་ན་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འགན་ཁུར་འཐབ་པའི་ སྐབས་ལུ་འབྱོར་བའི་གནས་ཚུལ་གསང་སྒྲོག་སྐོར། ཡང་ན།
ཆ༽ གཞན་གྱི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་དལ་དབང་སྐོར།
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Limitations and/or Derogations
- English… no authority has the right to abrogate legitimate freedoms, not even by enacting laws and regulations for that purpose, under the pretext of preserving the independence and territorial integrity of the country. (Art. 9)
- Persian(هیچ مقامی حق ندارد به نام حفظ استقلال و تمامیت ارضی کشور آزادیهای مشروع را، هر چند با وضع قوانین و مقررات، سلب کند. (اصل 9 …