A new study has found that it is not difficult at all to find brothels in London, with the price to purchase sex being extremely low. From BBC News: Brothels in the city offer sex for as little as £15, and some are charging £10 extra for unprotected intercourse, the Poppy Project in Southwark found. Its report said [...]

A Singapore tycoon was sentenced to jail for one day for his attempt to illegally buy a kidney on the black market.  From Bloomberg News: Retail tycoonTang Wee Sung was sentenced to one day in jail and fined S$17,000 ($11,813) by a Singapore court for trying to buy a kidney and lying about it in a case that’s [...]

20 people were arrested and 2 hostages were released as Mexican police conducted a daring raid agaisnt a kidnapping gang.  From CNN: The arrests, which included the leader of what authorities said was a top kidnapping gang in the country, comes about two weeks after Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with the country’s 32 governors to create [...]

A report by the AFP highlights how women are promised jobs in Singapore but end up forcing to work as prostitutes.  From AFP (via Google News): Promised jobs as “entertainers” in pubs and restaurants, many instead find themselves virtually indentured as prostitutes, working to pay back the cost of getting here. Women interviewed by AFP said they were [...]

Nepal’s adoption system is rift with problems that allows the trafficking of children and illegal adoption practices, according to a new report. From eKantipur: Inter-country adoption system in the country has encouraged child abuse including abduction and trafficking of children, according to a report released by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Terre des [...]

Reuters has a round up of the recent pirate activity off the coast of Somalia.  From Reuters: Heavily-armed pirates from Somalia have hijacked at least 30 ships this year. Spreading lawlessness, a rampant insurgency and a worsening aid crisis onshore look set to drive that number higher. Somalia’s 3,300 km (2,060 mile) coastline is considered one of the [...]

A US contracting company in Iraq is being sued in federal courts for alledgdly trafficking men from Nepal to work in warehouses.  From the Washington Post: A Washington law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday against KBR, one of the largest U.S. contractors inIraq, alleging that the company and its Jordanian subcontractor engaged in the human trafficking of [...]

595 people were arrested on Tuesday at a Mississippi plant on illegal immigration charges.  According to Reuters, the investigation centered around identity theft issues and the use of fake social security cards by the laborers. From Reuters: U.S. immigration agents have arrested 595 people at a Mississippi factory in what was the largest workplace enforcement raid in [...]

Col Gaddafi of Libya has been charged with kidnapping by Lebanon thirty years after the disappearance of a Shia Muslim cleric. From BBC News: Lebanon has indicted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi over the disappearance of a prominent Shia Muslim cleric during a visit to Libya 30 years ago. It is widely believed in Lebanon that Sheikh Moussa Sadr, [...]

Pirates off the coast of Somalia are using their ransom payment to fund an Islamist insurgency  on land. From Reuters: n explosion of piracy this month off the coast of Somalia is funding a growing insurgency onshore as the hijackers funnel hefty ransom payments to Islamist rebels, a maritime official said on Sunday. A record four ships were [...]