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Protection from Violence
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No one may be subjected to torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
No one shall be held in slavery or required to perform forced labour.
The authorities of the State shall protect the right to life and oppose torture, slavery, forced labour and other forms of inhuman or degrading treatment. (Art. 93) - Norwegian…
Ingen må utsettes for tortur eller annen umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling eller straff.
Ingen skal holdes i slaveri eller tvangsarbeid.
Statens myndigheter skal beskytte retten til liv og bekjempe tortur, slaveri, tvangsarbeid og andre former for umenneskelig eller nedverdigende behandling. (§ 93)
Protection from Violence
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II. The spread and propaganda of religions (religious movements) which humiliate human dignity and contradict the principles of humanity are banned.
… (Art. 18) - Azerbaijani…
II. İnsan ləyaqətini alçaldan və ya insanpərvərlik prinsiplərinə zidd olan dinlərin (dini cərəyanların) yayılması və təbliği qadağandır.
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Protection from Violence
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3. No one shall be obligated to undertake a certain job, except in compliance with a general public service that is equal for all or by virtue of a judicial decision, under the terms of the law. (Art. 42) - Portuguese…
3. Ninguém pode ser obrigado a um trabalho determinado, salvo para cumprimento de um serviço público geral e igual para todos ou em virtude de decisão judicial, nos termos da lei. (Art. 42)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) Every person has a right to liberty and security of the person.
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Protection from Violence
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No human shall be subjected to physical or mental torture, enticement, or degrading treatment. The law shall specify the punishment to whomever carries out such acts. All statements or confessions proven to have been obtained under torture, enticement, due to such treatment, or under threat of any of such acts, are deemed void. (Art. 25)
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لا يعرض أي إنسان للتعذيب المادي أو المعنوي، أو للإغراء، أو للمعاملة الحاطة بالكرامة، ويحدد القانون عقاب من يفعل ذلك، كما يبطل كل قول أو اعتراف يثبت صدوره تحت وطأة التعذيب أو بالإغراء أو لتلك المعاملة، أو التهديد بأي منها. (المادّة ٢٥)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) The domicile and the residence are inviolable. No one shall enter or remain in the domicile or residence of a person without his consent.
(2) An derogation from the provisions of paragraph (1) can operate, according to the law, for the following instances:
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b) removing a risk to someone's life, physical integrity, or a person's assets;
... (Art. 27) - Romanian(1) Domiciliul şi reşedinţa sunt inviolabile. Nimeni nu poate pătrunde sau rămâne în domiciliul ori în reşedinţa unei persoane fără învoirea acesteia.
(2) De la prevederile alineatului (1) se poate deroga prin lege pentru următoarele situaţii:
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b) înlăturarea unei primejdii privind viaţa, integritatea fizică sau bunurile unei persoane;
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Protection from Violence
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3. The State shall endeavour to create a civil society free of oppression, discrimination and violence, based on the rule of law, protection of human rights and dignity, and to ensure the fundamental rights and freedoms of the people.
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17. The State shall endeavour to take appropriate measures to eliminate all forms of discrimination and exploitation against women including trafficking, prostitution, abuse, violence, harassment and intimidation at work in both public and private spheres.
18. The State shall endeavour to take appropriate measures to ensure that children are protected against all forms of discrimination and exploitation including trafficking, prostitution, abuse, violence, degrading treatment and economic exploitation.
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༣) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་རིང་ལུགས་ལུ་གཞི་བཞག་པའི་འགྲོ་བ་མིའི་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ཆེ་མཐོང་གི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ གཉའ་གནོན་དང་ཕྱོགས་རིས་ འཚེ་བ་ལས་གྲོལ་བའི་མི་སྡེ་ཅིག་བཟོ་ནི་དང་ མི་སེར་གྱི་གཞི་རྟེན་ཐོབ་དབང་དང་ དལ་དབང་ཚུ་ ངེས་གཏན་ཡོདཔ་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་ བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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༡༧) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཨམ་སྲུ་ནག་ཚོང་དང་ སྨད་ཚོང་ དམངས་སྒེར་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་གཉིས་ཆ་རའི་ནང་ ལཱ་སར་ ལོག་སྤྱོད་དང་ འཚེ་བ་ བསུན་འཚེར་ འཇིགས་བསྐུལ་བརྩིས་པའི་ཕྱོགས་རིས་དང་ བཀོལ་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ རྩ་མེད་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ཐབས་ ལམ་བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
༡༨) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ ཨ་ལོ་ཚུ་ནག་ཚོང་དང་ སྨད་ཚོང་ ལོག་སྤྱོད་ འཚེ་བ་ དམའ་འབེབས་ཀྱི་ བཀོལ་སྤྱོད་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་བཀོལ་ཉེས་བརྩིས་པའི་ཕྱོགས་རིས་དང་བཀོལ་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་པ་ མ་འདྲཝ་ཚུ་ལས་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་ ངེས་གཏན་ བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འོས་འཚམས་ལྡན་པའི་ཐབས་ལམ་ བསྒྲིག་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe human person is sacred and inviolable.
Every individual has the right to life, to the integrity of their person, to security, to liberty, to the protection of their privacy and of their assets. (Art. 17) - Arabicالإنسان مقدس ومصون.
يحق لكل فرد بالحياة والسلامة الشخصية والأمن والحرية وحماية خصوصيته وأصوله. (المادة 17) - FrenchLa personne humaine est sacrée et inviolable.
Tout individu a droit à la vie, à l'intégrité de sa personne, à la sécurité, à la liberté, à la protection de sa vie privée et de ses biens. (Art. 17)
Protection from Violence
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4. All levels of government shall:
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b. enact laws to combat harmful customs and traditions which undermine the dignity and status of women;
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Protection from Violence
- EnglishEvery person who is a legal resident of the State shall enjoy protection to his person and property in accordance with the provisions of the law. (Art. 52)
- Arabicيتمتع كل شخص مقيم في الدولة إقامة مشروعة بحماية لشخصه وماله، وفقاً لأحكام القانون. (المادّة 52)