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Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery Islamic Republic of Iran [ Country-by-Country
Reports ] The Islamic
Republic of Iran [map], located in SW
Asia, is bordered by Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and the Caspian Sea
(N); by Afghanistan and Pakistan (E); by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman
(S); and by Turkey and Iraq (W). The Iran is a source,
transit, and destination for women trafficked for the purposes of sexual
exploitation and involuntary servitude. Iranian women are trafficked
internally for the purpose of forced prostitution and for forced marriages to
settle debts. Iranian children are trafficked internally and Afghan children
are trafficked to Iran for the purpose of forced marriages, commercial sexual
exploitation and involuntary servitude as beggars or laborers. According to
non-governmental sources, Iranian women and girls are also trafficked to
Pakistan, Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, France, Germany,
and the United Kingdom for commercial sexual exploitation. - U.S. State Dept
Trafficking in Persons Report, June, 2008 [full country report] |
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Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 2005 [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 Clerical
courts set free women traffickers The state-run daily Most
runaway girls in Iran raped within first 24 hours 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] 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 Child prostitution has risen 635 percent in recent
years. Dozens of Iranian girls are brought to Save the
Women, Save Ourselves 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 Iran 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 Iran Being Sold In Pakistan On Daily Basis 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 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 Human Rights Overview by Human
Rights Watch – Defending Human Rights Worldwide U.S. Library of Congress
- Country Study Slavery
of Children and women in Persian gulf countries The Islamic fundamentalists in
Iran have for example expended tremendous amounts of time and efforts
controlling, harassing, and punishing women and girls in the name of Islam.
In Tehran, there are an estimated 84,000 women and girls in prostitution,
many of them are on the Streets, others are in the 250 brothels that
reportedly operate in the City. The trade is also international. Thousands of
Iranian women and girls have been sold into sexual slavery abroad. The Sex
Slave Trade is one of the most Profitable activities in Iran today. Iranian
governments officials are involved in buying, selling and sexually abusing
women and girls. One factor contributing to the increase in prostitution and
the sex slave trade is the number of female teens who are running away from
home. In Tehran alone there are an estimated 25,000 Street Children, most of
them girls. Many of the girls come from impoverished Rural areas. Some
addicted parents sell their Children to support their habits...A number of prostitution
and slavery rings operating from Tehran that has sold girls and women to
Britain, France, and Germany. E-ZAN Voice of Women against Fundamentalism in
Iran 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] The head of Iran’s Interpol bureau
believes that the sex slave trade is one of the most profitable activities in
Iran today. This criminal trade is not conducted outside the knowledge and
participation of the ruling fundamentalists. Government officials themselves
are involved in buying, selling, and sexually abusing women and girls. The
price of Iranian girls after entering the Persian Gulf trafficking market May
2005 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 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. Iran: Fear of
imminent execution/fear of flogging, Leyla M "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 A group of Iranian boys and girls
will be sold in an auction today in Fojeyreh, United Arab Emirates. At a
round table discussion on human trafficking held yesterday (at the office of)
the Young Iranian Society news agency, it was announced that the preparations
for this auction were made two weeks before by hunters of Iranian women and
girls in the course of an international exhibition… The human hunters were able to choose 54
Iranian girls out of the 286 that were put on show in an Arab country's
booth. They were then sent to a Persian Gulf country on May 17 to get ready
for the Fojeyreh auction on May 26. Human
Trafficking and Forced Prostitution 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
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for noncommercial,
nonprofit, and educational use |
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