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Protection from Violence
- English
The protection of life, security, and physical integrity are guaranteed.
Slavery, slavery-like practices, inhuman and cruel, degrading and humiliating treatments, physical or moral torture, services and mistreatments inflicted on children and all forms of the degradation of Man [,] are forbidden and punished by the law. (Art. 2) - French
La protection de la vie, la sûreté et l'intégrité physique sont garanties.
Sont interdits et punis par la loi, l'esclavage, les pratiques esclavagistes, les traitements inhumains et cruels, dégradants et humiliants, la torture physique ou morale, les sévices et les mauvais traitements infligés aux enfants et toutes les formes d'avilissement de l'Homme. (Art. 2)
Protection from Violence
- English
The State of Rwanda commits itself to upholding and ensuring respect for the following fundamental principles:
(a) prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, fight against denial and revisionism of genocide as well as eradication of genocide ideology and all its manifestations;
… (Art. 10) - Kinyarwanda
Leta y’u Rwanda yiyemeje kugendera ku mahame remezo akurikira no gutuma yubahirizwa:
(a) gukumira no guhana icyaha cya jenoside, kurwanya ihakana n’ipfobya bya jenoside no kurandura burundu ingengabitekerezo ya jenoside n’ibyo igaragariramo byose;
… (Ingingo ya 10) - French
L’État du Rwanda s’engage à se conformer aux principes fondamentaux suivants et à les faire respecter:
(a) la prévention et répression du crime de génocide, la lutte contre le négationnisme et le révisionnisme du génocide ainsi que l’éradication de l’idéologie du génocide et toutes ses manifestations;
… (Art. 10)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe Union prohibits forced labor except hard labor as a punishment for crime duly convicted and duties assigned by the Union in accord with the law in the interest of the public. (Sec. 359)
- Burmeseနိုင်ငံတော်သည် ဥပဒေကျူးလွန်၍ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ပေးခြင်းကို ခံရသဖြင့် အလုပ်ဒဏ် ထမ်းဆောင် ခိုင်းခြင်းနှင့် အများပြည်သူအကျိုးအတွက် ဆောင်ရွက်ရန် နိုင်ငံတော်က ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ တာဝန် ချထားခြင်းမှတစ်ပါး အဓမ္မစေခိုင်းခြင်းကို တားမြစ်သည်။ (ပုဒ်မ-၃၅၉)
Protection from Violence
- English1. Personal inviolability and security shall be ensured to everyone.
... (Art. 41) - Polish1. Każdemu zapewnia się nietykalność osobistą i wolność osobistą.
... (Art. 41)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishNo person shall be subjected to slavery or servitude. Traffic of persons, in particular women, children and adolescents, in any form, shall be subject to the penalties prescribes by law. (Art. 54)
- SpanishNinguna persona podrá ser sometida a esclavitud o servidumbre. La trata de personas y, en particular, la de mujeres, niños, niñas y adolescentes en todas sus formas, estará sujeta a las penas previstas en la ley. (Art. 54)
Protection from Violence
- English…
3. Children shall also have the right to special protection against:
a) Any form of discrimination and oppression;
b) Abusive exercise of authority in the family and in other institutions to which they may be entrusted;
c) Child labor exploitation;
d) Sexual abuse and exploitation.
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6. The law shall punish especially, as serious crimes, sexual abuse and exploitation as well as child trafficking.
7. The law shall punish, equally, as serious crimes extreme cruelty and other acts susceptible to affecting gravely the physical and/or psychological integrity of children. (Art. 74) - Portuguese…
3. As crianças têm ainda direito a especial protecção contra:
a) Qualquer forma de discriminação e de opressão;
b) O exercício abusivo da autoridade na família e nas demais instituições a que estejam confiadas;
c) A exploração de trabalho infantil;
d) O abuso e a exploração sexual.
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6. A lei pune especialmente, como crimes graves, o abuso e exploração sexuais e o tráfico de crianças.
7. A lei pune, igualmente, como crimes graves as sevícias e os demais actos susceptíveis de afectar gravemente a integridade física e ou psicológica das crianças. (Art. 74)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be subject to any form of torture or any punishment or other treatment which is inhuman or degrading.
… (Sec. 20)
Protection from Violence
- English1. No person shall be subject to any duress or torture. Indictees and all persons deprived of their freedom shall receive proper treatment.
… (Art. 13) - Arabic1- لا يجوز إخضاع أحد لأي إكراه أو تعذيب و يعامل المتهمون وسائر المحرومين حرياتهم معاملة لائقة.
… (المادّة 13)
Protection from Violence
- English…
2. Propaganda or agitation, which arouses social, racial, national or religious hatred and hostility shall be prohibited. Propaganda of social, racial, national, religious or linguistic supremacy shall also be prohibited.
… (Art. 29) - Russian…
2. Не допускаются пропаганда или агитация, возбуждающие социальную, расовую, национальную или религиозную ненависть и вражду. Запрещается пропаганда социального, расового, национального, религиозного или языкового превосходства.
… (Статья 29)
Protection from Violence
- English…
III. Propaganda provoking racial, national, religious and social discord and animosity is prohibited. (Art. 47) - Azerbaijani…
III. İrqi, milli, dini, sosial ədavət və düşmənçilik oyadan təşviqata və təbliğata yol verilmir. (Maddə 47)