Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī (Jan 2014)
Iran's Penal Policy on Children and Juvenile Victims of Sex Tourism
Abstract
AbstrctChildren and juvenile sex tourism has nowadays become one of the mostprofitable transnational organized criminal practices, which as a new typeof child and juvenile victimization in the world, became a manifestation ofmodern slavery of children and minors. This practice involves the abuse andprostitution of children and minors, their forced employment in brothels andtheir sexual exploitation, as well as and providing venues sexual engagementand pleasure of travelers coming mainly from the industrial and developedcountries. Due to the lack of children's capacity to consent, child sex tourismis considered an acute and inhumane phenomenon against which a globalconsensus and firm determination has been formed. This paper is an effort todraw attention to the status of sex tourism, and, in this context, describe thevictimization of children and juveniles as a modern type of sexualexploitation and overview Iran's legislative criminal policy measures, alongwith its strengths and weaknesses.
