Human trafficking in Iran
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Human trafficking in Iran
refers to the phenomenon of human trafficking
in Iran
for the purposes of sexual exploitation
and involuntary servitude
.
According to the United States, the Government of Iran does not comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. Lack of access to Iran by U.S. Government officials prohibits the collection of full data
on the country’s human trafficking problem and the government’s efforts to curb it. Iran has not provided evidence of law enforcement activities against trafficking.
Iranian authorities allegedly punish victims of trafficking with beatings, imprisonment, and execution.
The government reportedly prohibits all forms of trafficking in persons through its 2004 Law on Combating Human Trafficking, which prescribes severe penalties, often including death sentences for convicted traffickers. However, border officials may be complicit in trafficking offenses and Iran has not reported any disciplinary action taken against officials believed to facilitate trafficking.Furthermore, victims are arrested and punished for violations of morality standards such as adultery, defined as sexual relations outside of marriage.
Human trafficking in Iran
Human trafficking in Iran refers to the phenomenon of human trafficking in Iran for the purposes of sexual exploitation and involuntary servitude.-Overview:...
refers to the phenomenon of human trafficking
Human trafficking
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, or a modern-day form of slavery...
in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
for the purposes of sexual exploitation
Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery is when unwilling people are coerced into slavery for sexual exploitation. The incidence of sexual slavery by country has been studied and tabulated by UNESCO, with the cooperation of various international agencies...
and involuntary servitude
Involuntary servitude
Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion other than the worker's financial needs...
.
Overview
Women from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Eastern Europe, China, Bangladesh, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are brought into Iran to work as prostitutes. Iranian children are trafficked internally and Afghan and Pakistani girls and women are trafficked to Iran for the purpose of forced marriages, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, and involuntary servitude as beggars or laborers.According to the United States, the Government of Iran does not comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. Lack of access to Iran by U.S. Government officials prohibits the collection of full data
Data
The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...
on the country’s human trafficking problem and the government’s efforts to curb it. Iran has not provided evidence of law enforcement activities against trafficking.
Iranian authorities allegedly punish victims of trafficking with beatings, imprisonment, and execution.
The government reportedly prohibits all forms of trafficking in persons through its 2004 Law on Combating Human Trafficking, which prescribes severe penalties, often including death sentences for convicted traffickers. However, border officials may be complicit in trafficking offenses and Iran has not reported any disciplinary action taken against officials believed to facilitate trafficking.Furthermore, victims are arrested and punished for violations of morality standards such as adultery, defined as sexual relations outside of marriage.