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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Prostitution
Ring Run By Revolutionary Guards Officers Uncovered In www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=1840 [accessed 31 May
2011] A
number of government officials and security officers were arrested during
raids on at least five houses used as brothels in and around the town of ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/iran/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The legal age requirements for
consensual sex are the same as those for marriage, as sex outside of marriage
is illegal. There are no specific laws regarding child sexual exploitation,
with such crimes either falling under the category of child abuse or sexual
crimes of adultery. The law does not directly address sexual molestation nor
provide a punishment for it. According
to CHRI, the legal ambiguity between child abuse and sexual molestation could
lead to child sexual molestation cases being prosecuted under adultery law.
While no separate provision exists for the rape of a child, the crime of
rape, regardless of the victim’s age, is potentially punishable by death. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/e7b8824bdd987268c1256fa8004a8753?OpenDocument [accessed 13
February 2011] [70] The Committee is
concerned about reports of trafficking and sale of persons under 18 years of
age, particularly young girls from rural areas, facilitated by
"temporary marriages" or "siqeh"
- marriages which last from 1 hour to 99 years. It is also concerned at reports of the
trafficking of such persons from Iran street
children rights, human rights Morteza Aminmansour,
Oct 30, 2007 This article has
been archived by World Street Children News and may possibly still be
accessible [here] [accessed 31 May
2011] The prostitution of
children also has surfaced as a matter of concern. In 2000, Iranian
authorities closed down six brothels in Tehran and arrested 35 people,
including some minors. Every day, an average of 45 Iranian girls (Mostly
under 18) run away from home to escape poverty, abuse, and social
imprisonment. Though some are picked up by the police and brought to welfare
organizations, many falls into the hands of organized prostitution rings or
drift into crime and the sex trade (they were transported to other countries
such as UAE for rich Arabs or to Afghanistan and Pakistan to work as
prostitutes; some simply disappear. Police in Press TV, Sep 28,
2007 edition.presstv.ir/detail/24947.html [accessed 31 May
2011] Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – IRAN
– There have been delays in addressing CSEC, as other fields of children
rights have been given priority in Iran and also because CSEC has not been
regarded as a widespread phenomenon. Therefore, no official actions have been
taken that would exclusively address prevention and the protection of
sexually exploited children. However, the NGO Organization for Defending
Victims of Violence stresses that the issue of CSEC is now included in the
work of the national Committee on the Rights of the Child. Moreover, the
Organization for Defending Victims of Violence is currently shaping a plan to
study the dimensions of commercial sexual exploitation nationwide. Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 31 May
2011] [47] The Government
is currently considering ratifying the OP/SOC. The sale and
trafficking of children is a criminal offence in Political
Executions, Child Prostitution, and Forced Marriage at the Age of 9
: Ms Zadeh talks on the lack of
human rights in News & Civil
Society Perspectives from the Commission on Human Rights Sixty-first session
14 March - 22 April 2005 -- Contributors: Sebastian Zielinski (CONGO), April
11, 2005 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May
2011] Child prostitution
has risen 635 percent in recent years. Dozens of Iranian girls are brought to
Iran: Fear of
imminent execution/fear of flogging, Leyla M Amnesty
International, Index Number: MDE 13/048/2004, Date Published: 10 December
2004 www2.amnesty.se/uaonnet.nsf/0/69E32AABCC1C8DB9C1256F66005702D4 [accessed 27 January
2016] “Leyla
M", who has a mental age of eight, is reportedly facing imminent
execution for "morality-related" offences arising from her being
forced into prostitution as a child.
According to a Human Trafficking
and Forced Prostitution Katherine Toliao, IranDokht www.irandokht.com/editorial/index4.php?area=pro§ionID=12&editorialID=761 [accessed 13
February 2011] This
abhorrent form of exploitation does not confine itself to adult women, but
extends to children as well. The head of the www.iranchamber.com/society/articles/trafficking_persons.php [accessed 31 May
2011] The prostitution of
children also has surfaced as a matter of concern. In January 2000, Iranian
authorities closed down six brothels in Proposal Debated
For Solving Prostitution With 'Chastity Houses' Charles Recknagel/Azam Gorgin, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.parstimes.com/women/chastity_houses.html [accessed 31 May
2011] Prostitutes wear
their veils loosely over their heads in a style that passes for risqué in
this strictly regulated society. With
their faces heavily made up, they stand at traffic circles where men driving
by can inspect them and make a deal.
The women are often young, including many teenagers who have run away
from abusive homes. Based on official
figures, there are some 300,000 women who work as prostitutes in 5.1 Middle East -
State of November 21, 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May
2011] While
Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ This summary is
based on the situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 31 May
2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61688.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– According to foreign observers, women and girls are trafficked to All
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