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Protection from Violence
- English1. … No person shall be arrested, detained, searched, seized or interrogated except as provided by law and no person shall be punished, placed under preventive restrictions or subject to involuntary labor except as provided by law and through lawful procedures.
2. No citizens shall be tortured or be compelled to testify against himself/herself in criminal cases.
... (Art. 12) - Korean① ... 누구든지 법률에 의하지 아니하고는 체포·구속·압수·수색 또는 심문을 받지 아니하며, 법률과 적법한 절차에 의하지 아니하고는 처벌·보안처분 또는 강제노역을 받지 아니한다.
②모든 국민은 고문을 받지 아니하며, 형사상 자기에게 불리한 진술을 강요당하지 아니한다.
... (제12조)
Protection from Violence
- English… No one may be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
… (Art. 20) - French…
Nul ne peut être soumis à des traitements cruels, inhumains ou dégradants.
… (Art. 20)
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
- English
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5. A person shall not tolerate or participate in acts of injury, torture or killing of another person, terrorism, abuse of women, children or any other person and shall take necessary steps to prevent such acts.
… (Art. 8) - Dzongkha
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༥) མི་ངོ་ཅིག་གིས་ གཞན་ལུ་གནོད་འཚེའམ་ མནར་གཅོད་ སྲོག་གཅོད་ ཡང་ན་ དྲག་ཐོག་ དབང་བཙོང་ ཨམ་སྲུའམ་ ཨ་ལོ་ མི་ངོ་གཞན་ག་ལུ་ཨིན་རུང་ ལོག་སྤྱོད་སྒྲིག་པའི་བྱ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ བཟོད་སེམས་བསྐྱེད་ནི་མེད་པ་ ཡང་ན་ གཏོགས་ནི་ མེད་པའི་ཁར་ དེ་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བྱ་བ་ཚུ་ སྔོན་འགོག་ལུ་མཁོ་བའི་ཐབས་ཤེས་བསྒྲིག་དགོ།
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Protection from Violence
- English
The citizens of Mongolia are guaranteed to exercise the following rights and freedoms:
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4/ … No one shall be subjected to forced labour;
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13/ the right to personal liberty and safety. … No person shall be subjected to torture, inhuman, cruel or degrading treatment.
… (Art. 16) - Mongolian
Монгол Улсын иргэн дараахь үндсэн эрх, эрх чөлөөг баталгаатай эдэлнэ:
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4) … Хэнийг ч хууль бусаар албадан хөдөлмөрлүүлж болохгүй;
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13) халдашгүй, чөлөөтэй байх эрхтэй. ... Хэнд боловч эрүү шүүлт тулгаж, хүнлэг бус, хэрцгий хандаж, нэр төрийг нь доромжилж болохгүй.
… (Арван зургадугаар зүйл)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishNo one shall be subjected to scientific experimentation, including medical experimentation, without his voluntary consent. (Art. 39)
- PolishNikt nie może być poddany eksperymentom naukowym, w tym medycznym, bez dobrowolnie wyrażonej zgody. (Art. 39)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) No person shall be required to perform forced labour.
… (Sec. 43)
Protection from Violence
- English…
2. Each member of the family shall enjoy full and equal respect and shall be protected by law against all forms of neglect, cruelty or exploitation.
… (Sec. 22)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEveryone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice. (Constitution Act 1982, Sec. 7)
- FrenchChacun a droit à la vie, à la liberté et à la sécurité de sa personne; il ne peut être porté atteinte à ce droit qu’en conformité avec les principes de justice fondamentale. (Loi constitutionnelle de 1982, Sec. 7)
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)