DUSHANBE, July 6 (RIA Novosti) - Some 50,000 Tajiks forced into slave labor in a number of former Soviet republics and some Asian nations were freed between 2002 and 2007, a regional official with the International Labour Organization (ILO) said Friday.
Firuz Satorov said that since the beginning of the year, Tajikistan has already launched 11 cases on charges of trafficking in minors and six cases on charges of recruiting people for exploitation.
"Our compatriots go abroad in order to earn money legally, but instead they are exploited as slaves," he said.
Starting July 1, the ILO, jointly with the UN Development Program (UNDP) began implementing a new project on the stable development of regional communities in Tajikistan with the main aim of preventing human trafficking.
