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Protection from Violence
- English1. All citizens enjoy the inviolability of their persons.
… (Art. 38) - Portuguese1 - Todo o cidadão goza da inviolabilidade da sua pessoa.
… (Art. 38)
Protection from Violence
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(1) The right of every individual to integrity and privacy shall be guaranteed. This right may be limited only in cases specifically provided by law.
(2) No person shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. (Art. 16) - Slovak
(1) Nedotknuteľnosť osoby a jej súkromia je zaručená. Obmedzená môţe byť len v prípadoch ustanovených zákonom.
(2) Nikoho nemoţno mučiť ani podrobiť krutému, neľudskému či poniţujúcemu zaobchádzaniu alebo trestu. (Čl. 16)
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.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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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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Protection from Violence
- EnglishWE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on noncitizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origin, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest, to each of the following:
- (a) life, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law; and
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(c) freedom from inhuman treatment and forced labour;
… (Preamble, Basic Rights)
Protection from Violence
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3. Entry into any person's home at night against his or her will is clearly prohibited, except in case of serious threat to life or physical integrity of somebody inside the home. (Sec. 37) - Tetum…
3. Atu tama karik iha ema ruma nia uma tuur-fatin iha kalan, latuir uma na’in nia hakarak, ida ne’e labele duni halo, bele de’it wainhira iha ameasa bo'ot ba ema nia moris, nia isin, ba ema ne’ebé iha uma ne’e nia laran. (Art. 37) - Portuguese…
3. A entrada no domicílio de qualquer pessoa durante a noite, contra a sua vontade, é expressamente proibida, salvo em caso de ameaça grave para a vida ou para a integridade física de alguém que se encontre no interior desse domicílio. (Art. 37)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishActs of genocide are prohibited and shall be prevented and punished. (Sec. 17)
Protection from Violence
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3 Irrespective of their status under the law on foreign nationals, foreign nationals shall lose their right of residence and all other legal rights to remain in Switzerland if they:
a. are convicted with legal binding effect of an offence of intentional homicide, rape or any other serious sexual offence, any other violent offence such as robbery, the offences of trafficking in human beings or in drugs, or a burglary offence;
… (Art. 121) - French...
3 Ils sont privés de leur titre de séjour, indépendamment de leur statut, et de tous leurs droits à séjourner en Suisse:
a. s’ils ont été condamnés par un jugement entré en force pour meurtre, viol, ou tout autre délit sexuel grave, pour un acte de violence d’une autre nature tel que le brigandage, la traite d’êtres humains, le trafic de drogue ou l’effraction;
… (Art. 121) - German...
3 Sie verlieren unabhängig von ihrem ausländerrechtlichen Status ihr Aufenthaltsrecht sowie alle Rechtsansprüche auf Aufenthalt in der Schweiz, wenn sie:
a. wegen eines vorsätzlichen Tötungsdelikts, wegen einer Vergewaltigung oder eines anderen schweren Sexualdelikts, wegen eines anderen Gewaltdelikts wie Raub, wegen Menschenhandels, Drogenhandels oder eines Einbruchsdelikts rechtskräftig verurteilt worden sind;
… (Art. 121) - Italian...
3 A prescindere dallo statuto loro riconosciuto in base alla legislazione sugli stranieri, gli stranieri perdono il diritto di dimora in Svizzera e ogni diritto di soggiorno se:
a. sono stati condannati con sentenza passata in giudicato per omicidio intenzionale, violenza carnale o un altro grave reato sessuale, per un reato violento quale ad esempio la rapina, per tratta di esseri umani, traffico di stupefacenti o effrazione;
… (Art. 121)