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Current AffairsAhead of elections, Prague authorities make fresh move to control prostitution
A month ahead of local elections, Prague officials have revived efforts to
legalize prostitution. City Hall has come up with a bill that would grant
prostitutes the status of self-employed workers, and give the authorities
the power to regulate the oldest profession. But passing the bill would
require the Czech Republic to pull out of a convention on human
trafficking, a move rejected by MPs in the past.
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PanoramaHuman trafficking can also involve Czechs exploited in Czech Republic, says head of NGO La Strada
A report on human trafficking released last week by the US State Department
called on the Czech Republic to do more to increase the number of convicted
trafficking offenders serving time in prison. It also praised Prague’s
efforts to protect and assist victims. But the Czech branch of the NGO La
Strada, which works in this field, questions aspects of Washington’s
annual Trafficking in Persons report. La Strada’s director Irena
Konečná says, for instance that it makes the mistake of conflating
trafficking and pimping.
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Business NewsBusiness News
In Business News this week: the prime minister this year’s state budget
deficit will total at least 150 billion crowns; The Czech Republic wins
arbitration over Union Banka; the energy giant ČEZ takes out a loan to
build a Romanian wind farm; Czech rails are to open up to competition; the
global economic downturn hits Czech prostitutes; and the central bank
issues coins to honour painter Alfons Mucha and the 14th century Czech
king, John of Luxembourg.
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