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Current AffairsDramatic rescue of baby girl poses serious questions about child trafficking
The dramatic arrest on Thursday of three men who were allegedly trying to
sell a ten-month-old baby girl to Great Britain has shocked the nation.
Child activists have called for greater vigilance and tougher legislation,
while the Czech branch of UNICEF says this particular case is no exception.
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Current AffairsAs Jehovah's Witnesses gather in Prague, members deny being cult
Prague's Strahov Stadium recently hosted a mass open-air meeting of the
Czech Jehovah's Witnesses, where dozens of converts were introduced into
the controversial religious order. The Czech Republic is among the most
agnostic societies in the world, and the organisation remains small. Rob
Cameron has the following report.
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Current AffairsInternational Missing Children's Day: up to ten thousand Czech children go missing every year
Every year the Czech police receive several thousand reports of missing
children. In 2004, the figure came close to ten thousand - that's in a
country with a population of only ten million. With this Wednesday
declared International Missing Children's Day, humanitarian organisations
hope to bring awareness to the large number of children missing around the
world and join forces to find more effective ways to reduce that number.
Dita Asiedu looks at the situation here in the Czech Republic:
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Today's Czech dailies all take note of the latest tragedy in Iraq - 18
Italian soldiers killed in the town of Nasiriya when a bomb went off: a
soldier hangs his head at the devastation on the cover of HOSPODARSKE
NOVINY while the headline proclaims "Americans look for a way to get
out of Iraq". Meanwhile, other stories making the front pages include
the US ambassador's role in lobbying for American F-16s for Prague, and a
legal case involving the interior minister and the weekly Respekt.
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The determined rescue efforts that went into saving a group of eleven Russian miners trapped 700 metres underground for six long days has been a closely watched story - and today's papers finally bring relief - the struggle is over and the blackened, tired faces of the rescued miners look out from the front pages. It was a nightmare but it is over, one of them says. More
Current AffairsUNICEF report says Czech-German border region is rife with child prostitution
The Czech Republic has in recent years gained some notoriety as a centre of
cheap prostitution. If that reputation was not bad enough, a new report
from the United Nations children's organisation, UNICEF, says the
Czech-German border region is rife with child prostitution. The area, says
the report, is a haven for German paedophiles, with Czech children often
being pimped by members of their own family. For their part, the Czech
police say they have no evidence that child prostitution exists, and Prime
Minister Vladimir Spidla has described the UNICEF report as
"unrealistic". I spoke to Pavla Gomba, the director of UNICEF in
Prague, and asked her is she was surprised by the contents of the report,
which was written by a German sociologist.
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