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Protection from Violence
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(4) Nothing in, or done under the authority of, a law shall be held to be inconsistent with, or in contravention of, this article to the extent that the law in question makes provision—
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(e) that is reasonably required for the purpose of safeguarding the people of Ghana against the teaching or propagation of a doctrine which exhibits or encourages disrespect for the nationhood of Ghana, the national symbols and emblems, or incites hatred against other members of the community;
except so far as that provision or, as the case may be, the thing done under the authority of that law is shown not to be reasonably justifiable in terms of the spirit of this Constitution.
… (Art. 21)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishI. No one shall be submitted to surgical intervention, medical examination or laboratory test without his or her consent or that of legally authorized third persons, except when his or her life is in imminent danger.
II. No one shall be submitted to scientific experiments without his or her consent. (Art. 44) - SpanishI. Ninguna persona será sometida a intervención quirúrgica, examen médico o de laboratorio sin su consentimiento o el de terceros legalmente autorizados, salvo peligro inminente de su vida.
II. Ninguna persona será sometida a experimentos científicos sin su consentimiento. (Art. 44)
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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༨༽
Protection from Violence
- English… The establishment and activity of public associations and political parties which encourage racism, nationalism, social and religious enmity, and hatred, as well as advocate the forcible overthrow of the constitutional state structures and the formation of armed groups shall be prohibited. ... (Art. 8)
- Russian… Создание и деятельность общественных объединений и политических партий, пропагандирующих расовую, национальную, социальную и религиозную вражду или призывающих к насильственному свержению конституционного строя и организации вооруженных групп, запрещаются. ... (Статья 8)
- Tajik… Таъсис ва фаъолияти иттиҳодияҳои ҷамъиятӣ ва ҳизбҳои сиёсие, ки нажодпарастӣ, миллатгароӣ, хусумат, бадбинии иҷтимоӣ ва мазҳабиро тарғиб мекунанд ва ё барои бо зӯрӣ сарнагун кардани сохтори конститутсионӣ ва ташкили гурӯҳҳои мусаллаҳ даъват менамоянд, манъ аст. ... (Моддаи 8)
Protection from Violence
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Forced labour shall be prohibited. (Art. 49) - Slovene
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Prisilno delo je prepovedano. (49. Člen)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
… (Sec. 8)
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
- English… The State shall take measures for the protection of the children against all kinds of abuse and violence. (Art. 41)
- Turkish… Devlet, her türlü istismara ve şiddete karşı çocukları koruyucu tedbirleri alır. (Madde 41)
Protection from Violence
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(1) Every person in Tuvalu is entitled, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, religious beliefs or lack of religious beliefs, disability, or sex, to the following fundamental rights and freedoms: —
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(c) security for his person (see sections 18 and 19);
… (Sec. 11)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEveryone has the right to respect of his or her dignity.
No one shall be subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that violates his or her dignity.
No person shall be subjected to medical, scientific or other experiments without his or her free consent. (Art. 28) - UkrainianКожен має право на повагу до його гідності.
Ніхто не може бути підданий катуванню, жорстокому, нелюдському або такому, що принижує його гідність, поводженню чи покаранню.
Жодна людина без її вільної згоди не може бути піддана медичним, науковим чи іншим дослідам. (Стаття 28)