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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early
years of the 21st Century 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
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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-- Contributors: Sebastian Zielinski (CONGO), April 11, 2005 At one time this article had been archived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 By law, the father has the right to force a girl into marriage at the age of nine. A man can have up to four wives and forty "temporary marriages". Prostitution is thus codified in the Iranian law. Mentioning only a small part of the atrocities carried out by the Iranian regime, it is not hard to understand that Iran currently has the highest suicide rate in the world. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 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 By law, the father has the right to force a girl into marriage at the age of nine. A man can have up to four wives and forty "temporary marriages". Prostitution is thus codified in the Iranian law. Mentioning only a small part of the atrocities carried out by the Iranian regime, it is not hard to understand that Iran currently has the highest suicide rate in the world. 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] At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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/report/freedom-world/2009/iran [accessed 26 June 2012] 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
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