Iraq

Article 15:
Every individual has the right to enjoy life, security and liberty. Deprivation or restriction of these rights is prohibited except in accordance with the law and based on a decision issued by a competent judicial authority.
Article 22:
First: Work is a right for all Iraqis in a way that guarantees a dignified life for them.
Second: The law shall regulate the relationship between employees and employers on economic bases and while observing the rules of social justice.
Third: The State shall guarantee the right to form and join unions and professional associations, and this shall be regulated by law.
Article 29:
Third: Economic exploitation of children in all of its forms shall be prohibited, and the State shall take the necessary measures for their protection. Fourth: All forms of violence and abuse in the family, school, and society shall be prohibited.
Article 37:
First:
A. The liberty and dignity of man shall be protected.
C. All forms of psychological and physical torture and inhumane treatment are prohibited. Any confession made under force, threat, or torture shall not be relied on, and the victim shall have the right to seek compensation for material and moral damages incurred in accordance with the law.
Second: The State shall guarantee protection of the individual from intellectual, political and religious coercion.
Third: Forced labor, slavery, slave trade, trafficking in women or children, and sex trade shall be prohibited.
Article 44:
First: Each Iraqi has freedom of movement, travel, and residence inside and outside Iraq.Iraq Constitution

Article 13
In circumstances other than those stipulated in Articles 9, 10 and 11, the provisions of this Code are applicable to all those who enter Iraq subsequent to committing an offence abroad whether as principals or accessories to the following offences: Destroying or causing damage to international means of communications or trading in women, children, slaves or drugs.
Article 320
Any public official or agent who employs others to carry out the activities relating to his position and who retains for himself in whole or in part the wages or other recompense due to his employees or who employs slave labor and takes their wages for himself or who enters in a government register the names of fictitious or genuine persons who have not been engaged in those activities and retains their wages for himself or who pays such employees their wages at the government’s expense is punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or by detention.
Article 325
Any public official or agent who engages slave labor in activities unconnected with the legally or constitutionally recognized public interest or activities other than those that are prompted by necessity or who obliges a person to engage in activities or circumstances other than those in which the law sanctions such activity is punishable by detention. This is in addition to an order that he pay any wages due to those people he has unlawfully employed.
Paragraph 392
Any person who compels another under the age of 18 to become a beggar is punishable by a period of detention not exceeding 3 months plus a fine not exceeding 50 dinars or by one of those penalties. The penalty will be a period of detention not exceeding 6 months plus a fine not exceeding 100 dinars or one of
Paragraph 399
Any person who incites a boy or girl under the age of 18 to indulge in fornication or resort to prostitution as a profession or assists him or her to do so is punishable by detention. The penalty will be a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or by detention if the offender is a person described in Sub-Paragraph 2 of Paragraph 393 and intends to profit by his action or receives money for such action.
Paragraph 421
Any person who seizes, detains or deprives a person of his liberty in any way without an order from a competent authority in circumstances other than those described in the laws and regulations to that effect is punishable by detention. The penalty will be a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years in the following circumstances:
(1) If the offence is committed by a person who is wearing the uniform of a government employee without being entitled to do so or a distinctive official insignia belonging to such employee or assumes a false public identity or issues a false order for the arrest, imprisonment or detention of a person while claiming it to be issued by a competent authority.
(2) If the offence is accompanied by the threat of death or physical or mental torment.
(3) If the offence is committed by two or more persons or by a person openly carrying a weapon.
(4) If the period of seizure, detention or deprivation of freedom exceeds 15 days.
(5) If the motive for the offence is financial gain or the sexual assault of the victim or the taking of vengeance on the victim or on another.
(6) If the offence is committed against a public official or agent in the execution of his duty or employment or as a consequence of it.
Paragraph 399
Any person who incites a boy or girl under
the age of 18 to indulge in fornication or resort to prostitution as a profession or assists him or her to do so is punishable by detention. The penalty will be a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or by detention if the offender is a person described in Sub-Paragraph 2 of Paragraph 393 and intends to profit by his action or receives money for such action.
Paragraph 421
Any person who seizes, detains or deprives
a person of his liberty in any way without an order from a
competent authority in circumstances other than those described
in the laws and regulations to that effect is punishable by
detention.
The penalty will be a term of imprisonment not exceeding 10
years in the following circumstances:

(1) If the offence is committed by a person who is wearing the uniform of a government employee without being entitled to do so or a distinctive official insignia belonging to such employee or assumes a false public identity or issues a false order for the arrest, imprisonment or detention of a person while claiming it to be issued by a competent authority.
(2) If the offence is accompanied by the threat of death or physical or mental torment.
(3) If the offence is committed by two or more persons or by a person openly carrying a weapon.
(4) If the period of seizure, detention or deprivation of freedom exceeds 15 days.
(5) If the motive for the offence is financial gain or the sexual assault of the victim or the taking of vengeance on the victim or on another.
(6) If the offence is committed against a public official or agent in the execution of his duty or employment or as a consequence of it.
Paragraph 425
Any person who provides a location for unlawful detention or imprisonment while being aware of that fact is punishable by a term of imprisonment not exceeding 7 years or by detention.

Iraq Penal Code

Article 1
First: For purposes of this law, the term “Human Trafficking” shall indicate recruiting, transporting, housing, or receiving individuals by force, threat to use force, or other means, including by coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, misuse of power, exchange of money, or privileges to an influential person in order to sell and exploit the trafficked individuals by means of prostitution, sexual abuse, unpaid labor, forced labor, enslavement, beggary, trading of human organs, medical experimentation.
Article 5
First: A person who commits the crime of Human Trafficking stipulated in Article (1) of this law shall be punished by temporary imprisonment and a penalty not less than 5 million, and not exceeding 10 million, Iraqi dinars.
Second: A person who commits the crime of Human Trafficking by the following means shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding 15 years and penalty not exceeding 10 million Iraqi dinars:
A.The use of any form of coercion, including blackmail, threat, and/or confiscation of travel or official documents.
B. The use of fraudulent means to deceive or victimize victims.
C. Giving or receiving money or privileges in exchange for approval from a person of authority or guardianship over the victim.
Article 6
First: If the victim is under 18 years of age
Second: if the victim is female, or disabled
Third: If the crime was committed by an organized crime group or of international nature
Fourth: The crime was committed by kidnapping or torture
Fifth: The perpetrator is an immediate or second relative, guardian, or spouse of the victim
Sixth: The trafficking resulted in terminal illness or permanent disability to the victim
Seventh: The trafficking affected multiple persons or for a multiple of times
Eigth: The trafficking was carried out by a government employee or a person commissioned to public service
Ninth: Exploitation of influence or a victim’s weakness or need
Article 7

A person who committed one of the following acts shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than 3 years or by a penalty not less than 10 million, and not more than, 20 million, Iraqi dinars, or both penalties:
First: Established or managed an internet website to engage in human trafficking
Second: Engaged or facilitated a human trafficking contract using the internet
Article 8
If the act of Human Trafficking leads to death of the victim, the punishment shall be capital punishment.
Article 10
Consent by a victim to human trafficking shall not be accepted as a defense. Iraq Trafficking in Persons Lawpdf

Article 3
Penalty of imprisonment for a period of not more than 7 years for whoever engages on procurement or uses premises for that purpose.
Article 4
provides that a woman who is proved to have engaged in prostitution shall be confined to a reformatory of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
Article 5
Whoever forcibly detains a person, male or female, for the purposes of prostitution or sodomy a penalty of 10 years in prison where the victim is over the age of 18 and not more that 15 years where the victim is under 18as well as court – awarded compensation for the victim in either case.