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Protection from Violence
Zimbabwe
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(2) The State must adopt reasonable policies and measures, within the limits of the resources available to it, to ensure that children—
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(c) are protected from maltreatment, neglect or any form of abuse;
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(3) The State must take appropriate legislative and other measures—
(a) to protect children from exploitative labour practices; and
(b) to ensure that children are not required or permitted to perform work or provide services that—
(i) are inappropriate for the children’s age; or
(ii) place at risk the children’s well-being, education, physical or mental health or spiritual, moral or social development. (Sec. 19)
Protection from Violence
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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The right of Lao citizens by their lives, bodies, dignities and shelters are inviolable.
… (Art. 42) - Lao
ພົນລະເມືອງລາວ ມີສິດໂດຍບໍ່ມີໃຜຈະລ່ວງລະເມີດໄດ້ທາງດ້ານຊີວິດ, ຮ່າງກາຍ, ກຽດສັກສີ ແລະ ເຄຫະສະຖານ.
… (ມາດຕາ. 42) (ປັບປຸງ)
Protection from Violence
Grenada
- English(1) No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
… (Sec. 5)
Protection from Violence
North Macedonia
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The programmes and activities of political parties and other associations of citizens may not be directed at the violent destruction of the constitutional order of the Republic, or at encouragement or incitement to military aggression or ethnic, racial or religious hatred or intolerance.
… (Art. 20) - Macedonian…
Програмите и дејствувањето на здруженијата на граѓаните и политичките партии не можат да бидат насочени кон насилно уривање на уставниот поредок на Републиката и кон поттикнување или повикување на воена агресија или разгорување на национална, расна или верска омраза или нетрпеливост.
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Protection from Violence
Eswatini
- EnglishNotwithstanding anything in this Constitution, there shall be no derogation from the enjoyment of the following rights and freedoms
(a) life, equality before the law and security of person;
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(c) freedom from slavery or servitude;
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(e) freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Sec. 38)
Protection from Violence
Bahamas
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Now Know Ye Therefore:
We the Inheritors of and Successors to this Family of Islands, recognizing the Supremacy of God and believing in the Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of the Individual, Do Hereby Proclaim in Solemn Praise the Establishment of a Free and Democratic Sovereign Nation founded on Spiritual Values and in which no Man, Woman or Child shall ever be Slave or Bondsman to anyone or their Labour exploited or their Lives frustrated by deprivation, and do Hereby Provide by these Articles for the indivisible Unity and Creation under God of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. (Preamble)
Protection from Violence
Nepal
- EnglishThe State shall pursue the following policies:
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(i) Policies relating to labour and employment:
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(3) to abolish all forms of labour exploitation including child labour,
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(j) Policies relating to social justice and inclusion:
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(2) to make self-dependent the women who are vulnerable, subjected to social and family exclusion and victims of violence self-reliant by making their rehabilitation, protection and empowerment,
… (Art. 51) - Nepaliराज्यले देहायका नीतिहरू अवलम्बन गर्नेछः–
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(झ) श्रम र रोजगार सम्बन्धी नीतिः
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(३) बालश्रम लगायत श्रम शोषणका सबै रूपको अन्त्य गर्ने,
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(ञ) सामाजिक न्याय र समावेशीकरण सम्बन्धी नीतिः
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(२) जोखिममा परेका, सामाजिक र पारिवारिक बहिष्करणमा परेका तथा हिंसा पीडित महिलालाई पुनःस्थापना, संरक्षण, सशक्तीकरण गरी स्वावलम्बी बनाउने,
... (धारा ५१)
Protection from Violence
Mexico
- EnglishNo person may arrogate justice, or exercise violence to reclaim their right.
… (Art. 17) - SpanishNinguna persona podrá hacerse justicia por sí misma, ni ejercer violencia para reclamar su derecho.
… (Art. 17)
Protection from Violence
Romania
- English(1) The right to life, as well as the right to physical and mental integrity of person are guaranteed.
(2) No one may be subjected to torture or to any kind of inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment.
… (Art. 22) - Romanian(1) Dreptul la viaţă, precum şi dreptul la integritate fizică şi psihică ale persoanei sunt garantate.
(2) Nimeni nu poate fi supus torturii şi nici unui fel de pedeapsă sau de tratament inuman ori degradant.
... (Art. 22)
Protection from Violence
Guinea
- EnglishThe human being has [the] right to the free development of his personality. He has [the] right to life and to physical and moral integrity; no one may be subjected to torture, to pain [peines] or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments.
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The law determines the order manifestly illegal.
No one may take advantage [se prévaloir] of a received order or of an instruction to justify acts of torture, abuse [sévices] or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatments committed in the exercise or on the occasion of the exercise of their functions.
No situation of exception or of emergency should [ne doit] justify the violations of human rights. (Art. 6) - FrenchL'être humain a droit au libre développement de sa personnalité. Il a droit la vie et à l'intégrité physique et morale. Nul ne peut être l'objet de tortures, de peines ou de traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants.
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La loi détermine l'ordre manifestement illégal.
Nul ne peut se prévaloir d'un ordre reçu ou d'une instruction pour justifier des actes de tortures, de sévices ou de traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants commis dans l'exercice ou à l'occasion de l'exercice de ses fonctions.
Aucune situation d'exception ou d'urgence ne doit justifier les violations des droits humains. (Art. 6)