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Protection from Violence
- EnglishNeither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. … (Amendment XIII, Sec. 1)
Protection from Violence
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1) … None may be humiliated, mistreated or tortured, even when they are in a state of arrest or imprisonment;
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Any act of racial, ethnic, or religious discrimination[,] also of any regionalist propaganda infringing on the internal or external security of the State or the integrity of the Republic is punishable by the law;
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17) The protection of the young against exploitation and against moral, intellectual and physical abandon, is an obligation for the State and the public collectivities;
… (Art. 1) - French
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1°) … Nul ne peut être humilié, maltraité ou torturé, même lorsqu ‘il est en état d’arrestation ou d’emprisonnement;
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Tout acte de discrimination raciale, ethnique ou religieuse, de même que toute propagande régionaliste pouvant porter atteinte à la sécurité intérieure ou extérieure de l’Etat ou à l’intégrité de la République sont punis par la loi;
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17°) La protection de la jeunesse contre l’exploitation et contre l’abandon moral, intellectuel et physique, est une obligation pour l’Etat et les collectivités publiques;
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Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or other treatment.
… (Sec. 15)
Protection from Violence
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3. Every child has the right to be protected from violence, mistreatment, exploitation and employment for work, especially when under the minimum age for work that could damage their health and morals or endanger their life or normal development. (Art. 54) - Albanian
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3. Çdo fëmijë ka të drejtë të jetë i mbrojtur nga dhuna, keqtrajtimi, shfrytëzimi dhe përdorimi për punë, e veçanërisht nën moshën minimale për punën e fëmijëve, që mund të dëmtojë shëndetin, moralin ose të rrezikojë jetën a zhvillimin e tij normal. (Neni 54)
Protection from Violence
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(1) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
… (Art. 6)
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.
… (Maddə 18)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishDespite any other provision in this Constitution, the following rights and fundamental freedoms shall not be limited—
(a) freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
(b) freedom from slavery or servitude;
… (Art. 25) - SwahiliLicha ya vifungu vingine vyovyote katika Katiba hii, haki zifuatazo na uhuru wa msingi hazitawekewa mipaka-
(a) uhuru dhidi ya kuteswa na ukatili, kitendo au adhabu ya udhalilishaji;
(b) uhuru dhidi ya utumwa na kutumikishwa;
… (Kifungu cha 25)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishAny call for or incitement to war or use of violence, to national, racial or religious hatred, or any form of intolerance shall be prohibited and punishable by law. (Art. 39)
- CroatianZabranjeno je i kažnjivo svako pozivanje ili poticanje na rat ili uporabu nasilja, na nacionalnu, rasnu ili vjersku mržnju ili bilo koji oblik nesnošljivosti. (Članak 39)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
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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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