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Protection from Violence
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All incitement to racism, to hatred and to violence is prohibited.
Genocide and all other crimes against humanity, the crimes of war and all the grave and systematic violations of the Rights of Man are punished by the law. (Art. 23) - Arabic…
يُحظَر كل تحريض على العنصرية أو الكراهية أو العنف.
يُعاقب القانون على جريمة الإبادة الجماعية وغيرها من الجرائم ضد الإنسانية، وجرائم الحرب، وكافة الانتهاكات الجسيمة والممنهجة لحقوق الإنسان. (الفصل 23)
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
- EnglishWe, the Japanese people …
We desire to occupy an honored place in an international society striving for the preservation of peace, and the banishment of tyranny and slavery, oppression and intolerance for all time from the earth.
… (Preamble) - Japanese日本国民は、…
われらは、平和を維持し、専制と隷従、圧迫と偏狭を地上から永遠に除去しようと努めてゐる国際社会において、名誉ある地位を占めたいと思ふ。
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Protection from Violence
- English1) Human dignity shall be respected and protected.
2) No one may be subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Art. 27bis) - German1) Die Würde des Menschen ist zu achten und zu schützen.
2) Niemand darf unmenschlicher oder erniedrigender Behandlung oder Strafe unterworfen werden. (Art. 27bis)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishWhereas every person in Botswana is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever his or her race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest to each and all of the following, namely-
(a) life, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law;
… (Sec. 3)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) Every individual is entitled to respect for the dignity of his person, and accordingly –
(a) no person shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment;
(b) no person shall he held in slavery or servitude; and
(c) no person shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.
… (Sec. 34)
Protection from Violence
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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
- EnglishThe State shall watch over the youth and shall protect it from exploitation and from moral, corporal and spiritual negligence. (Art. 10)
- Arabicترعى الدولة النشء وتحميه من الاستغلال وتقيه الإهمال الأدبي والجسماني والروحي. (المادّة 10)
Protection from Violence
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It is prohibited to perform medical and other experiments on human beings, without their permission. (Art. 27) - Montenegrin…
Zabranjeno je na ljudskom biću, bez njegove dozvole, vršiti medicinske i druge oglede. (Clan 27)
Protection from Violence
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5. Freedom of expression and of information shall also be limited:
a) By the duty of protection of children and youth;
b) By the prohibition of advocacy of violence, pedophilia, racism, xenophobia and of any form of discrimination, particularly against women;
c) By the banning of the dissemination of appeals for the practice of the acts referred to in the previous subparagraph.
… (Art. 48) - Portuguese…
5. As liberdades de expressão e de informação são ainda limitadas:
a) Pelo dever da protecção da infância e da juventude;
b) Pela proibição da apologia da violência, da pedofilia, do racismo, da xenofobia e de qualquer forma de discriminação, nomeadamente da mulher;
c) Pela interdição da difusão de apelos à prática dos actos referidos na alínea anterior.
… (Art. 48)