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267:. According to a baseline study published in 2013, Tunisian youth are subjected to various forms of trafficking. International organizations report an increased presence of street children and rural children working to support their families in Tunisia since the 2011 revolution; according to the baseline study, these children are vulnerable to sex trafficking. Tunisian women have reportedly been forced into prostitution under false promises of work both within the country and elsewhere in the region, such as 741: 238:
Except in the cases provided for by the regulations in force, women who, by gestures or words, offer themselves to passers-by or engage in prostitution even occasionally, shall be punished from 6 months to 2 years' imprisonment and 20 To 200 dinars of fine. Everyone who has had sexual intercourse
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action against the red light districts. Many were burnt down; in others the prostitutes were evicted and the buildings wrecked. All but those in Tunis and Sfax were closed, those two being saved by the action of locals preventing the fundamentalists entering the areas until police and military
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and therefore also in Tunisia. The first maison de tolérance (brothel) appeared in Tunis in 1882. In 1889, a regularity system was introduced, and biweekly medical examinations for prostitutes were made mandatory to try to stop the spread of
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licence were subject to strict regulation. Without a licence, prostitution became illegal. Clients of illegal prostitutes were also criminalised as accomplices. Regulated areas of prostitution were present in most cities.
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Alexandropoulos, Jacques; Cabanel, Patrick (2000). "La prostitution en Tunisie au temps de la colonisation" [Prostitution in Tunisia at the time of colonization].
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In 2014 there was a petition to the Ministry of the Interior to allow the red light district in Sousse to reopen but this was unsuccessful.
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North Africa Yearbook, National Center for Scientific Research; Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World
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amongst German troops. Still controlled by Vichy France, the Tunisian government legalised the status of sex workers as "
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Prior to the 2011 Jasmine Revolution, there were around 300 legal sex workers in about 12 areas including Tunis, Sfax,
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Regulations for prostitution and brothels were introduced by a Ministry of the Interior decree on April 30, 1942:
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Tunisia is a source, destination, and possible transit country for men, women, and children subjected to
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amended the 1942 decree to reflect the social and legislative developments the country had undergone.
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with one of these women is considered as an accomplice and punished with the same penalty.
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was pressured into further regulating prostitution to try to prevent the spread of
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estimate there to be around 25,000 prostitutes in the country. Sex workers and
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of brothels must be female, over 35 and have the permission of their husband
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La Tunisie mosaïque: Diasporas, cosmopolitisme, archéologies de l'identité
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is low, many work illegally, especially since the closure of most of the
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Generally clients are dealt with less severely, and usually only fined.
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L'Afrique galante: reportage chez les prostituées juives et mauresques
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Benaziz, Ammar; Smith-Spark, Laura; Abedine, Saad (12 March 2014).
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Libera UniversitĂ  Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
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report law enforcement to be abusive, inconsistent and corrupt.
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Prostitutes may not leave the designated areas except by permit
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Africa galante: reportage among Jewish and Moorish prostitutes
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La prostitution coloniale: Algérie, Tunisie, Maroc, 1830-1962
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Sex workers are not allowed to engage in any other occupation
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Colonial Prostitution: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, 1830-1962
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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
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The evolution of a North African ghetto. The hara of Tunis
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L'Évolution d'un ghetto nord-africain. La hara de Tunis
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is regulated and confined to two small areas, one in
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Prostitution can only take place in designated areas
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made French law applicable in Tunisia. At that time
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Portraits of Women in the Quartier Reserve in Tunis
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Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons
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Index

Sfax
Sidi Abdallah Guech
Tunis
prostitution
prostitutes
red-light districts
Jasmine Revolution
UNAIDS
NGOs
Ottoman period in Tunisia
French protectorate
La Marsa Convention
brothels
France
syphilis
German occupation of France
Vichy Government
STIs
occupied by Axis forces
military brothels
Ministry of the Interior
Sousse
Gabès
Kairouan
Islamist
fundamentalist
STIs
Human trafficking in Tunisia
sex trafficking
Lebanon

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