Prohibition of slavery and forced labour

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 798.

Article 4

Prohibition of torture

Article 3

Right to life

Article 2

Rights and freedoms

Section I

Obligations to respect human rights

Article 1

The High Contracting Parties shall secure to everyone within their jurisdiction the rights and freedoms defined in Section I of this Convention.

1. Everyone's right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.

2. Deprivation of life shall not be regarded as inflicted in contravention of this article when it results from the use of force which is no more than absolutely necessary:

a in defence of any person from unlawful violence;

b in order to effect a lawful arrest or to prevent the escape of a person lawfully detained;

c in action lawfully taken for the purpose of quelling a riot or insurrection.

No one shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

1. No one shall be held in slavery or servitude.

2. No one shall be required to perform forced or compulsory labour.

3. For the purpose of this article the term “forced or compulsory labour” shall not include:

a any work required to be done in the ordinary course of detention imposed

according to the provisions of Article 5 of this Convention or during

conditional release from such detention;

b any service of a military character or, in case of conscientious objectors in

countries where they are recognised, service exacted instead of compulsory

military service;

c any service exacted in case of an emergency or calamity threatening the life

or well-being of the community;

d any work or service which forms part of normal civic obligations.

Text 2.Artefact text[1]: declaration