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Protection from Violence
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Children shall be guaranteed special protection from economic, social, physical, mental, or other exploitation and abuse. Such protection shall be regulated by law.
… (Art. 56) - Slovene
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Otrokom se zagotavlja posebno varstvo pred gospodarskim, socialnim, telesnim, duševnim ali drugim izkoriščanjem in zlorabljanjem. Takšno varstvo ureja zakon.
... (56. Člen)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishI. Every person has the right to life and physical, psychological and sexual integrity. No one shall be tortured, nor suffer cruel, inhuman, degrading or humiliating treatment. The death penalty does not exist.
II. Everyone, in particular women, have the right not to suffer physical, sexual or psychological violence, in the family as well as in the society.
III. The State shall adopt the necessary measures to prevent, eliminate and punish sexual and generational violence, as well as any action or omission intended to be degrading to the human condition, to cause death, pain, and physical, sexual or psychological suffering, whether in public or private spheres.
IV. No person shall be submitted to a forced disappearance for any reason or under any circumstance.
V. No person shall be submitted to servitude or slavery. The trade and trafficking of persons is prohibited. (Art. 15) - SpanishI. Toda persona tiene derecho a la vida y a la integridad física, psicológica y sexual. Nadie será torturado, ni sufrirá tratos crueles, inhumanos, degradantes o humillantes. No existe la pena de muerte.
II. Todas las personas, en particular las mujeres, tienen derecho a no sufrir violencia física, sexual o psicológica, tanto en la familia como en la sociedad.
III. El Estado adoptará las medidas necesarias para prevenir, eliminar y sancionar la violencia de género y generacional, así como toda acción u omisión que tenga por objeto degradar la condición humana, causar muerte, dolor y sufrimiento físico, sexual o psicológico, tanto en el ámbito público como privado.
IV. Ninguna persona podrá ser sometida a desaparición forzada por causa o circunstancia alguna.
V. Ninguna persona podrá ser sometida a servidumbre ni esclavitud. Se prohíbe la trata y tráfico de personas. (Art. 15)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishI. Everyone has the right to a secure life.
II. With the exception of cases specified by law, infringement upon a person's life, his or her physical and mental health, property, residence, the use of force against him or her is prohibited. (Art. 31) - AzerbaijaniI. Hər kəsin təhlükəsiz yaşamaq hüququ vardır.
II. Qanunda nəzərdə tutulmuş hallar istisna olmaqla, şəxsin həyatına, fiziki və mənəvi sağlamlığına, mülkiyyətinə, mənzilinə qəsd etmək, ona qarşı zor işlətmək qadağandır. (Maddə 31)
Protection from Violence
- English… No one shall be subjected to torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and without their consent to medicinal, scientific or other experiments. … (Art. 33)
- Russian… Никто не может подвергаться пыткам, применению насилия, жестокому, бесчеловечному или унижающему человеческое достоинство обращению или наказанию, а также без его согласия подвергаться медицинским, научным или иным опытам. … (Статья 33)
- Turkmen… Hiç kim gynamalara, zorluk ulanylmagyna, zalymlyk, adamkärçiliksizlik ýa-da adam mertebesini peseltmek bilen ýüzlenilmegine ýa-da jeza berilmegine, şeýle hem onuň razylygy bolmasa, lukmançylyk, ylmy ýa-da başga tejribelere sezewar edilip bilinmez. … (33-nji madda)
Protection from Violence
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(2) A political party shall not—
(a) be founded on a religious, linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender or regional basis or seek to engage in advocacy of hatred on any such basis;
(b) engage in or encourage violence by, or intimidation of, its members, supporters, opponents or any other person;
… (Art. 91) - Swahili...
(2) Chama cha siasa-
(a) hakitaanzishwa kwa msingi wa kidini, lugha, rangi, kabila, jinsia au kikanda au kujihusisha katika uenezi wa chuki kwa msingi wowote kama huo;
(b) kujihusisha au kuchochea vurugu kwa, au kutishia wanachama wake, wafuasi, wapinzani au mtu mwingine yeyote;
… (Kifungu cha 91)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEvery person has the right to freedom and personal inviolability.
… (Art. 29) - UkrainianКожна людина має право на свободу та особисту недоторканність.
… (Стаття 29)
Protection from Violence
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1. The Government shall protect and strengthen the sovereignty of the Kingdom, provide good governance, and ensure peace, security, well-being and happiness of the people.
… (Art. 20) - Dzongkha
༡) གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་རང་བཙན་གྱི་ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་དང་མཐའ་བཙན་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་ མི་སེར་གྱི་ཞི་བདེ་དང་ བདེ་སྲུང་ བདེ་སྐྱིད་ དགའ་སྐྱིད་ཡོདཔ་ངེས་གཏན་བཟོ་དགོ།
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Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be held in slavery or servitude.
(2) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
... (Sec. 6)
Protection from Violence
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2. Political parties and other organizations, whose programs and activity are based on totalitarian methods, that incite and support racial, religious, regional or ethnic hatred, that use violence to take power or influence state policies, as well as those with a secret character, are prohibited pursuant to the law.
… (Art. 9) - Albanian
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2. Partitë politike dhe organizatat e tjera, programet dhe veprimtaria e të cilave mbështeten në metoda totalitariste, që nxitin e përkrahin urrejtjen racore, fetare, krahinore ose etnike, që përdorin dhunën për marrjen e pushtetit ose për të ndikuar në politikën shtetërore, si edhe ato me karakter të fshehtë janë të ndaluara sipas ligjit.
… (Neni 9)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe human person is sacred and inviolable.
Every individual has the right to the life, to the liberty, to the security and to the integrity of his person. (Art. 1) - FrenchLa personne humaine est sacrée et inviolable.
Tout individu a droit à la vie, à la liberté, à la sécurité et à l'intégrité de sa personne. (Art. 1)