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 [...]

Citizens in Mexico are purchasing computer chips that are implanted under their skin to allow satellites to locate them in the event of a kidnapping. 
From Reuters (via Yahoo News):
Affluent Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can help find them tied up [...]

Amnesty International released a new report stating that human trafficking in Scotland consists of  a large portion of the total United Kingdom trafficking market.
From BBC News:

A modern-day slave trade is in operation across Scotland, new research has suggested.
Human rights charity Amnesty International said Scotland had 13.5% of the UK’s trade in people.
This was despite Scotland [...]

Fifteen years after being freed from a sweatshop, a Thai woman has become a US citizen.
From the LA Times:
Maliwan Clinton recalls her first taste of America with a shudder. In this fabled land of the free, she was enslaved behind razor wire and around-the-clock guards in an El Monte sweatshop, where she and more than [...]

Reuters has an update on human smugglers entering the United States by sea due to the increase security   on the border.
From Reuters:
Mexican smugglers are cramming illegal immigrants and drugs into boats and ferrying them to California by sea to try to beat the tightened security on the U.S. land border, authorities say.
U.S. Coast Guard [...]

Mexico President Felipe Calderon is calling on lawmakers to increase punishment for kidnappers. 
From the LA Times:
 Amid broad outrage over the slaying of a 14-year-old kidnapping victim, Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thursday urged Congress to toughen punishments for abductors to include life in prison.
The proposal would make kidnapping in some cases subject to the harshest criminal [...]

Illegal immigrant patients in US hospitals are being deported by hospitals due to their lack of medical insurance.
From the New York Times:
Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for [...]