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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)
Protection from Violence
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1) … None may be humiliated, mistreated, or tortured, even when they are [il est] 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…
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;
… (Art. 1)
Protection from Violence
- Englisha. The state shall guarantee to its citizens their personal freedom; preserve their dignity and their security. …
b. … Physical and psychological torture is prohibited. …
e. The law shall determine the punishment for whosoever violates any of the stipulations of this Article and it shall also determine the appropriate compensation for any harm the person suffers as a result of such a violation. Physical or psychological torture at the time of arrest, detention or jail is a crime that cannot be prescribable. All those who practice, order, or participate in executing, physical or psychological torture shall be punished. (Art. 48) - Arabicأ. تكفل الدولة للمواطنين حريتهم الشخصية وتحافظ على كرامتهم وأمنهم . ...
ب. ... ويحظر التعذيب جسدياً أو نفسياً أو معنوياً، . ...
ه. يحدد القانون عقاب من يخالف أي فقرة من فقرات هذه المادة، كما يحدد التعويض المناسب عن الأضرار التي قد تلحق بالشخص من جراء المخالفة، ويعتبر التعذيب الجسدي أو النفسي عند القبض أو الاحتجاز أو السجن جريمة لا تسقط بالتقادم ويعاقب عليها كل من يمارسها أو يأمر بها أو يشارك فيها. (المادّة 48)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishWhereas every person in Barbados is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever his race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following, namely-
(a) life, liberty and security of the person;
… (Sec. 11)
Protection from Violence
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4. It shall be prohibited to hire children under the age of 16 for full-time employment. The procedure and conditions of hiring them for part-time employment shall be stipulated by law.
5. Forced or compulsory labor shall be prohibited.
… (Art. 57) - Armenian…
4. Մինչև տասնվեց տարեկան երեխաներին մշտական աշխատանքի ընդունելն արգելվում է: Նրանց ժամանակավոր աշխատանքի ընդունման կարգը և պայմանները սահմանվում են օրենքով։
5. Պարտադիր կամ հարկադիր աշխատանքն արգելվում է:
… (Հոդված 57)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be held in slavery or involuntary servitude, nor shall any person be required to perform forced or compulsory labor.
… (Art. II, Sec. 2)
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;
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Protection from Violence
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(2) The organization/s activity shall not be contrary to the country's sovereignty and national integrity, or the unity of the nation, nor shall it incite racial, national, ethnic or religious enmity or an encroachment on the rights and freedoms of citizens; no organization shall establish clandestine or paramilitary structures or shall seek to attain its aims through violence.
… (Art. 44) - Bulgarian…
(2) Забраняват се организации, чиято дейност е насочена срещу суверенитета, териториалната цялост на страната и единството на нацията, към разпалване на расова, национална, етническа или религиозна вражда, към нарушаване на правата и свободите на гражданите, както и организации, които създават тайни или военизирани структури или се стремят да постигнат целите си чрез насилие.
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Protection from Violence
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1. All persons shall have the right to life, liberty and security of person and shall not be deprived of such rights except in accordance with the due process of law.
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17. A person shall not be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
… (Art. 7) - Dzongkha
༡) མི་ངོ་ཆ་མཉམ་ལུ་ ཚེ་སྲོག་དང་ འདོད་དབང་ རང་སོའི་བདེ་སྲུང་གི་ཐོབ་དབང་ཡོད་པའི་ཁར་ ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་ རིམ་གྱིས་པ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་མ་གཏོགས་ ཐོབ་དབང་དེ་ཚུ་ལས་འབྲལ་ཐབས་བསྒྲིག་ནི་མེད།
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༡༧) མི་ཅིག་ལུ་ མནར་གཅོད་ ཡང་ན་ གདུག་རྩུབ་ མི་སྤྱོད་ལས་འགལ་བ་ དམའ་འབེབས་ཀྱི་ ཉེས་སྤྱོད་ ཡང་ན་ ཉེས་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་དབང་ལུ་བསྡུ་ནི་མེད།
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Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
… (Sec. 43)