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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
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Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006 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 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Oct 30, 2007 This article has been archived by World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
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 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. 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. All
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