Cases of labour exploitation reportedly on the rise

Incidents of forced labour are on the rise, according to experts speaking at a conference on the prevention of human trafficking on Wednesday. While 2007 saw only three reported cases of labour exploitation, last year that number was in the dozens, with foreigners, often from Mongolia or former Soviet states, largely the victims. In 2004 the Czech Republic, along with the rest of the European Union, enacted new legislation to expand the scope of human trafficking laws to include not only sexual exploitation but also other forms of forced labour.