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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Iran.htm
Iran is a source, transit, and
destination for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of
sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude. Iranian women are trafficked
internally for the purpose of forced prostitution and forced marriages.
Iranian and Afghan children living in Iran are trafficked internally for the
purpose of forced marriages, commercial sexual exploitation and involuntary
servitude as beggars or laborers to pay debts, provide income or support drug
addiction of their families. - U.S.
State Dept Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2009 [full country report] |
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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Sebastian Zielinski (CONGO), April 11, 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may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 6 September 2011] Child prostitution has risen 635 percent in recent
years. Dozens of Iranian girls are brought to ***
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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61688.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS –
According to foreign observers, women and girls are trafficked to 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 Human trafficking victims return from Iran M.H. Khan, Dawn the Internet Edition, archives.dawn.com/2008/03/09/top15.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] Twenty-three victims of human
trafficking, including women and children, arrived at the FIA’s
office here on Saturday after serving for a year as unpaid labourers on the agricultural land in Clerical courts set free women traffickers Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of [accessed 13 February 2011] The state-run daily Most runaway girls in www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=2827 [accessed 13 February 2011] In April, 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 The Plight of Iranian Women and Children Under Islamic Rule [DOC] Prof. Donna M. Hughes, Congressional Breakfast Conference,
June 8, 2005 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/plight.doc [accessed 13 February 2011] THE IDEOLOGY AND STATE OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM - The clerics’ version of sharia law imposes a crushing system of gender apartheid on Iranians based on the premise that women are physically, psychologically, intellectually, and morally inferior to men. The clerics made laws on how to control, punish, torture, and kill women and girls. Misogyny and violence against women were institutionalized. 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 6 September 2011] Child prostitution has risen 635 percent in recent
years. Dozens of Iranian girls are brought to Save the Women, Save Ourselves - Terror, inside and out Michael Ledeen, National Review
NRO contributing editor, April 04, 2005 old.nationalreview.com/ledeen/ledeen200504040752.asp [accessed 13 February 2011] According to Dr. Azam, she had a skull fracture, two broken fingers, missing fingernails, a crushed big toe, a smashed nose, deep scratches on her neck, and evidence of flogging on her legs and back. "I could see this was caused by torture," Azam told Canadian journalists. He added that the nurse who examined Kazemi's genitals told him of "brutal damage." He believes she was tortured and raped. If he is correct, we can add Zara Kazemi to a long list of women who have been brutalized. Child Prostitution Ring Run By Revolutionary Guards
Officers Uncovered In www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=1840 [accessed 13 February 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 Girls In www.iranfocus.com/en/?option=com_content&task=view&id=1616 [accessed 13 February 2011] At least 54 Iranian girls and
young women, between the ages of 16 and 25, are sold on the streets of Woman Facing Death For Prostitution ‘Not Mentally
Disabled’ Irish Examiner, December 23, 2004 archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2004/12/23/story354882847.asp [accessed 13 February 2011] Amnesty had said the woman’s
mother forced her into prostitution when she was eight. It said the girl was
raped repeatedly and gave birth to a baby when she was nine. Freedom House Country Report - Political Rights: 6 Civil Liberties: 6 Status: Not Free 2009 Edition www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=363&year=2009&country=7627 [accessed 13 February 2011] Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide www.hrw.org/middle-eastn-africa/iran [accessed 13 February 2011] Library of Congress Call Number DS254.5 .I742 1989 lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/irtoc.html [accessed 13 February 2011] Slavery of Children and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/2675 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] The Islamic fundamentalists in E-ZAN Voice of
Women against Fundamentalism in E-ZAN, VOLUME 6, November 15, 2004 [accessed 13 February 2011] TO OUR READERS - The Iranian regime displays a
different kind of brutality towards women. Women’s Forum Against
Fundamentalism was the first organization in the Sex Slave Jihad [PDF] Prof. Donna M. Hughes, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 27,
2004 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/sex_slave_trade_iran.pdf [accessed 13 February 2011] The head of The price of Iranian girls after entering the Persian Gulf
trafficking market May 2005 SINA News Agency, 6 July 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The Colonel adds:
?The girls who run away from home have no idea what the future holds
for them. We have 200 missing girls in Tehran, as we speak and we only know
of the fate of a few. There are many rings lurking for these young women and
girls. They use these run-a-way girls for stealing, trafficking and for illicit
drugs and sex. Most of all they use these victims for their organs.? Every
once in a while bodies of unknown girls are found here and there in large
cities, particularly in Tehran. Some of these bodies are identified; however
most of them are buried without being identified because no one comes to
claim their body. The dealers of human organs are
also trafficking girls by promising them a better life and transporting them
across borders. Once taken to another country, the traffickers sell the
girls? body parts for enormous amounts of money. Iran's Sex Slaves Suffer Hideously Under Mullahs Prof. Donna M. Hughes, Insight on the News – Insight
Magazine, 28 May 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] A measure of Islamic
fundamentalists' success in controlling society is the depth and totality
with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25
years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and
punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system
of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing and stoning to
death. Amnesty International, Index Number: MDE 13/048/2004, Date
Published: 10 December 2004 www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/048/2004 [accessed 13 February 2011] "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. Human trafficking from Iran to Gulf Shiekhdoms Shargh daily, May 26, 2004 activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2551 [accessed 13 February 2011] A group of Iranian boys and girls
will be sold in an auction today in 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 Tehran province judiciary asserts that traffickers
looking to sell women in the international market target girls between 13 and
17, although some of the girls are reported to be as young as 8 and 10. The
younger girls are often forced to work as maids until slave traders deem them
old enough to work out of clubs, motels, or brothels. All material used herein
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