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Protection from Violence
- English1. Freedom shall be a sacred right and the state shall guarantee the personal freedom of citizens and preserve their dignity and security;
… (Art. 33) - Arabic1. الحرية حقّ مقدّس وتكفل الدولة للمواطنين حريتهم الشخصية وتحافظ على كرامتهم وأمنهم.
... (المادّة 33)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEveryone has the right to personal dignity and safety. (Art. 34)
- SloveneVsakdo ima pravico do osebnega dostojanstva in varnosti. (34. Člen)
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
- EnglishNo person shall be held in slavery or forced labor within the Republic, nor shall any citizen of Liberia nor any person resident therein deal in slaves or subject any other person to forced labor, debt bondage or peonage; … (Art. 12)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishNo one shall be forced to work. Forced labour is prohibited. … (Art. 18)
- TurkishHiç kimse zorla çalıştırılamaz. Angarya yasaktır. … (Madde 18)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe Confederation and the Cantons shall ensure that persons who have suffered harm to their physical, mental or sexual integrity as the result of a criminal act receive support and are adequately compensated if they experience financial difficulties as a result of that criminal act. (Art. 124)
- FrenchLa Confédération et les cantons veillent à ce que les victimes d’une infraction portant atteinte à leur intégrité physique, psychique ou sexuelle bénéficient d’une aide et reçoivent une juste indemnité si elles connaissent des difficultés matérielles en raison de l’infraction. (Art. 124)
- GermanBund und Kantone sorgen dafür, dass Personen, die durch eine Straftat in ihrer körperlichen, psychischen oder sexuellen Unversehrtheit beeinträchtigt worden sind, Hilfe erhalten und angemessen entschädigt werden, wenn sie durch die Straftat in wirtschaftliche Schwierigkeiten geraten. (Art. 124)
- ItalianLa Confederazione e i Cantoni provvedono affinché chi sia stato leso nella sua integrità fisica, psichica o sessuale in seguito a un reato riceva aiuto, nonché un’equa indennità qualora gliene siano derivate difficoltà economiche. (Art. 124)
Protection from Violence
- English
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
- EnglishSubject to the provisions of this Part, and in particular to —
(a) section 32 (foreign disciplined forces); and
(b) section 33 (hostile disciplined forces),
no-one shall —
(c) be tortured; or
(d) given inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment. (Sec. 19)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be held in slavery or servitude.
2. No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
… (Sec. 6)
Protection from Violence
- English…
2. Acts threatening the life or health of other persons and the community are prohibited. (Art. 38) - Vietnamese…
2. Nghiêm cấm các hành vi đe dọa cuộc sống, sức khỏe của người khác và cộng đồng. (Điều 38)