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Protection from Violence
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(3) No woman shall be subjected to physical, mental, sexual, psychological or other form of violence or exploitation on grounds of religion, social, cultural tradition, practice or on any other grounds. Such act shall be punishable by law, and the victim shall have the right to obtain compensation in accordance with law.
… (Art. 38) - Nepali…
(३) महिला विरुद्व धार्मिक, सामाजिक, सांस्कृतिक परम्परा, प्रचलन वा अन्य कुनै आधारमा शारीरिक, मानसिक, यौनजन्य, मनोवैज्ञानिक वा अन्यकुनै किसिमको हिंसाजन्य कार्य वा शोषण गरिने छैन । त्यस्तो कार्य कानून बमोजिम दण्डनीय हुनेछ र पीडितलाई कानून बमोजिम क्षतिपूर्ति पाउने हकहुनेछ ।
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Protection from Violence
- English1. Citizens have the right to form associations freely and without the requirement for any authorisation, on condition that such associations are not intended to promote violence and their purposes are not contrary to the criminal law.
… (Art. 46) - Portuguese1. Os cidadãos têm o direito de, livremente e sem dependência de qualquer autorização, constituir associações, desde que estas não se destinem a promover a violência e os respectivos fins não sejam contrários à lei penal.
… (Art. 46)
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
- EnglishSlavery or involuntary servitude is prohibited except to punish crime. The government shall protect children from exploitation. (Art. IV, Sec. 11)
Protection from Violence
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No one may be submitted to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading penalties or treatments.
In particular, it is prohibited to submit a person without their free consent to a medical or scientific experiment. (Art. 8) - French
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Nul ne peut être soumis à la torture ni à des peines ou traitements inhumains ou dégradants.
En particulier, il est interdit de soumettre une personne sans son libre consentement à une expérience médicale ou scientifique. (Art. 8)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishThe Commission on Elections shall exercise the following powers and functions:
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(5) Register, after sufficient publication, political parties, organizations, or coalitions which, in addition to other requirements, must present their platform or program of government; and accredit citizens’ arms of the Commission on Elections. Religious denominations and sects shall not be registered. Those which seek to achieve their goals through violence or unlawful means, or refuse to uphold and adhere to this Constitution, or which are supported by any foreign government shall likewise be refused registration.
… (Art. IX-C, Sec. 2) - FilipinoDapat tumupad ng sumusunod na mga kapangyarihan at mga gawain ng Komisyon ng Halalan:
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(5) Irehistro, pagkaraan ng sapat na paglalathala, ang mga partido, mga organisasyon, o mga koalisyong pampulitika na bukod sa iba pang mga kahingian, ay kinakailangang magharap ng kanilang plataporma o programa ng pamahalaan, at kilalanin ang mga lingkod-bayan ng Komisyon ng Halalan. Hindi dapat irehistro ang mga denominasyon at mga sektang pangrelihiyon. Dapat ding tanggihan ang pagrerehistro sa mga naghahangad na makamit ang kanilang mga layunin sa pamamagitan ng karahasan o mga labag na kaparaanan, o tumatangging itaguyod at talimahin ang Saligang-Batas na ito, o sinusuportahan ang alin mang banyagang pamahalaan.
… (Art. IX-K, Seksyon 2)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishRural and urban properties in any region of Brazil on which illegal cultivation of psychotropic plants or the exploitation of slave labor, as provided by law, are found shall be expropriated and destined for agrarian reform and programs of popular housing, without any compensation to the owner and without prejudice to other sanctions provided by law, observing, to the extent applicable, the provisions of art. 5.
… (Art. 243) - PortugueseAs 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
- EnglishPersons deprived of liberty must be treated humanely and with respect to dignity of their person.
Any violence towards persons deprived of liberty shall be prohibited.
… (Art. 28) - Serbian CyrillicПрема лицу лишеном слободе мора се поступати човечно и с уважавањем достојанства његове личности.
Забрањено је свако насиље према лицу лишеном слободе.
... (Члан 28)
Protection from Violence
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No political party may resort to violence or to constraint, whatever the nature or the forms of these.
… (Art. 57) - Arabic
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لا يجوز أن يلجأ أيّ حزب سياسيّ إلى استعمال العنف أو الإكراه مهما كانت طبيعتهما أوشكلهما.
... (المــادة 57) - French
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Aucun parti politique ne peut recourir à la violence ou à la contrainte, quelles que soient la nature ou les formes de celles-ci.
... (Art. 57)
Protection from Violence
- EnglishAll have the right to the security of their person and of their kin [proches], and to the protection of their assets.
… (Art. 21) - Arabicلكل فرد الحقّ في سلامة شخصه وأقربائه، وحماية ممتلكاته.
... (الفصل 21)