Prostitution in Lebanon
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Prostitution
is nominally legal in Lebanon
. Although the law on prostitution requires that brothels be licensed, including regular testing for disease, government policy is not to issue new licenses for brothels, in an attempt to gradually eliminate legal prostitution in the country. As a result, most prostitution occurs illegally. Some prostitutes are Eastern European and Russian women who entered the country for sexual exploitation. The majority come from neighboring Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Morocco and Egypt. Women working in adult clubs are closely monitored by the Sûreté Générale, the border control agency. Their residency permits do not exceed six months, and they are deported if they are caught overstaying their permits. Most of these women entered the country knowing that they would be working in adult clubs.
Cases of child prostitution are known and prosecuted, still nothing is really done to rehabilitate
these juveniles.
The Daily Star
, Friday, April 16, 2010: Experts and activists, among them Gunilla S. Ekberg, a Swedish-Canadian lawyer, feminist and human rights
expert, stressing the relationship between prostitution and violence against women advocate that prostitution should be made illegal in Lebanon.
Prostitution
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment. The person who receives payment for sexual services is called a prostitute and the person who receives such services is known by a multitude of terms, including a "john". Prostitution is one of...
is nominally legal in Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
. Although the law on prostitution requires that brothels be licensed, including regular testing for disease, government policy is not to issue new licenses for brothels, in an attempt to gradually eliminate legal prostitution in the country. As a result, most prostitution occurs illegally. Some prostitutes are Eastern European and Russian women who entered the country for sexual exploitation. The majority come from neighboring Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, Morocco and Egypt. Women working in adult clubs are closely monitored by the Sûreté Générale, the border control agency. Their residency permits do not exceed six months, and they are deported if they are caught overstaying their permits. Most of these women entered the country knowing that they would be working in adult clubs.
Cases of child prostitution are known and prosecuted, still nothing is really done to rehabilitate
Rehabilitation (penology)
Rehabilitation means; To restore to useful life, as through therapy and education or To restore to good condition, operation, or capacity....
these juveniles.
The Daily Star
Daily Star (Lebanon)
The Daily Star is a pan-Middle East English language newspaper edited in Beirut. It was founded in 1952 by Kamel Mrowa, the publisher of the Arabic daily Al-Hayat to serve the growing number of expatriates brought by the oil industry...
, Friday, April 16, 2010: Experts and activists, among them Gunilla S. Ekberg, a Swedish-Canadian lawyer, feminist and human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
expert, stressing the relationship between prostitution and violence against women advocate that prostitution should be made illegal in Lebanon.