"Ending Bacha Bazi: Boy Sex Slavery and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine, 25 Ind. Int'l. & Comp. L. Rev. 63 (2015)" by Samuel Vincent Jones

Samuel V. Jones

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Ending Bacha Bazi: Boy Sex Slavery and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine, 25 Ind. Int'l. & Comp. L. Rev. 63 (2015)

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Samuel Vincent Jones, John Marshall Law School

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Article

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Disciplines

Comparative and Foreign Law,
International Humanitarian Law,
International Law,
Juvenile Law,
Law,
Law and Society,
Military, War, and Peace and
Sexuality and the Law

Abstract

This essay challenges the conventional wisdom that prohibitions against government-condoned child-sex slavery have attained non- derogable, peremptory status under international law. Much to the utter shock of field investigators and human rights experts, boy sex slavery has evolved into a constitutive and central feature of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Afghanistan) because of a customary practice commonly referred to as bacha bazi.

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Samuel Vincent Jones, Ending Bacha Bazi: Boy Sex Slavery and the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine, 25 Ind. Int'l. & Comp. L. Rev. 63 (2015)