Criminalisation Gender-Based Violence in Marital Relations by Relying on the International Human Rights Documents

If some crimes related to family institution not known and legislator not enough support of them, may occur within the family and couple relations the impact it is obvious to everyone. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate the necessity of criminalizing sexual violence in marital relationships in order to prevent and reduce such sexual violence and to answer the fundamental question of what are the human rights components of this type of domestic violence in Iran law? The current research is using description and analytic method as well as digital-library sources.The findings of the present study indicates that the Qanvnnamh Hammurabi to modern law, legislators have considered heavy punishments for sexual violence, but overall violence legislator, despite Iran ban and its prohibition in Islamic law, in particular measures to prevent the violence has not. The prevention of sexual violence requires time and cost much and cooperation of various institutions and organizations and this represents a poor cooperation between the institutions involved in the detection and prevention of this type of violence.