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Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe right to prosecute sexual or pornography offences involving prepubescent children and the penalties for such offences is not subject to a time limit. (Art. 123b)
- FrenchL’action pénale et la peine pour un acte punissable d’ordre sexuel ou pornographique sur un enfant impubère sont imprescriptibles. (Art. 123b)
- GermanDie Verfolgung sexueller oder pornografischer Straftaten an Kindern vor der Pubertät und die Strafe für solche Taten sind unverjährbar. (Art. 123b)
- ItalianL’azione penale e la pena per i reati sessuali o di pornografia commessi su fanciulli impuberi sono imprescrittibili. (Art 123b)
Protection from Violence
- English
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།
་་་༼རྩ་ཚན་༧༽
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe State and public communities ensure the promotion, development and protection of women. They take the necessary measures to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls. (Art. 35)
- FrenchL’Etat et les collectivités publiques assurent la promotion, le développement et la protection de la femme. Ils prennent les mesures nécessaires en vue d’éliminer toutes les formes de violence faites à la femme et à la jeune fille. (Art. 35)
Protection from Violence
- English… The freedom of creative expression is guaranteed. The state encourages cultural creativity and supports the strengthening of national culture, its diversity and renewal, in promoting the values of tolerance, rejection of violence, openness to different cultures and dialogue between civilizations. … (Art. 42)
- Arabic… حرّية الإبداع مضمونة، وتشجع الدولة الإبداع الثقافي، وتدعم الثقافة الوطنية في تأصلها وتنوعها وتجددها، بما يكرس قيم التسامح ونبذ العنف والانفتاح على مختلف الثقافات والحوار بين الحضارات. ... (الفصل 42)
- French… La liberté de création est garantie. L’État encourage la créativité culturelle et soutient la culture nationale dans son enracinement, sa diversité et son renouvellement, en vue de consacrer les valeurs de tolérance, de rejet de la violence, d’ouverture sur les différentes cultures et de dialogue entre lescivilisations.
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Protection from Violence
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3. Discriminatory treatment, forced labor or the employment of people below the minimum working age is prohibited. (Art. 35) - Vietnamese…
3. Nghiêm cấm phân biệt đối xử, cưỡng bức lao động, sử dụng nhân công dưới độ tuổi lao động tối thiểu. (Điều 35)
Protection from Violence
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Rural and urban properties in any region of the country where illegal plantations of psychotropic plants are found or the exploitation of slave labour as defined by law is uncovered shall be expropriated and assigned to agrarian reform and to low-income housing programs, with no indemnity to the owner and without prejudice to other sanctions set forth by law, with due regard, when appropriate, for the provisions of Article 5.
… (Art. 243) - Portuguese
As propriedades rurais e urbanas de qualquer região do País onde forem localizadas culturas ilegais de plantas psicotrópicas ou a exploração de trabalho escravo na forma da lei serão expropriadas e destinadas à reforma agrária e a programas de habitação popular, sem qualquer indenização ao proprietário e sem prejuízo de outras sanções previstas em lei, observado, no que couber, o disposto no art. 5º.
… (Art. 243)
Protection from Violence
- English(1) Every child has the right—
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(d) to be protected from abuse, neglect, harmful cultural practices, any form of violence, inhumane treatment and punishment, and hazardous or exploitative labour;
… (Sec. 41) - iTaukei(1) Na gone yadua e tu vua na dodonu—
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(d) me taqomaki mai na kena rawa ni vakayacori vua e dua na itovo e veivakamavoataki, sega ni kauwaitaki, itovo vakavanua e rawa ni veivakamavoataki, itovo kaukauwa, itovo vakamanumanu kei na nona totogitaki, kei na veivakacakacakataki e rawa ni mavoa kina se lolovira;
… (Sec. 41)
Protection from Violence
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As for crimes related to the incitement of violence, discrimination between citizens, or impingement of individual honor, the Law shall specify the penalties therefore.
… (Art. 67) - Arabic…
أما الجرائم المتعلقة بالتحريض على العنف أو التمييز بين المواطنين أو الطعن فى أعراض الأفراد، فيحدد القانون عقوباتها
…(المادّة 67)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishEvery person has the right to bodily and psychological integrity, which includes the right—
(a) to freedom from all forms of violence from public or private sources;
(b) subject to any other provision of this Constitution, to make decisions concerning reproduction;
(c) not to be subjected to medical or scientific experiments, or to the extraction or use of their bodily tissue, without their informed consent. (Sec. 52)
Protection from Violence
- English1. The dignity of all persons shall be inviolable.
2. No person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
3. No person shall be held in slavery or servitude nor shall any person be required to perform forced labour not authorised by law. (Art. 16)