Council of Europe Takes Up Problem of International Trafficking in Human Organs

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Friday, June 1, 2012
Author: 
Michael Plachta
Volume: 
28
Issue: 
6
Abstract: 

 

The joint Council of Europe/United Nations study of 2009 has demonstrated that both the quantitative and also the qualitative description of trafficking in organs and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal are hindered by the lack of universal agreement about what is involved in the former and by the limited amount of detailed information available from official sources.[1] When describing practices in trafficking related to transplantation, it should first be noted that this form of trafficking, either in organs or in human beings for the purpose of organ removal, is a global issue.



                [1]              Trafficking in organs, tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the removal of organs, joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study (2009), at 58.