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Web End = Child organ trafcking: global reality and inadequate international response
Alireza Bagheri1
Published online: 26 November 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Abstract In organ transplantation, the demand for human organs has grown far faster than the supply of organs. This has opened the door for illegal organ trade and trafcking including from children. Organized crime groups and individual organ brokers exploit the situation and, as a result, black markets are becoming more numerous and organized organ trafcking is expanding worldwide. While underprivileged and vulnerable men and women in developing countries are a major source of trafcked organs, and may themselves be trafcked for the purpose of illegal organ removal and trade, children are at especial risk of exploitation. With the conrmed cases of children being trafcked for their organs, child organ trafcking, which once called a modern urban legend, is a sad reality in todays world. By presenting a global picture of child organ trafcking, this paper emphasizes that child organ trafcking is no longer a myth but a reality which has to be addressed. It argues that the international efforts against organ trafcking and trafcking in human beings for organ removal have failed to address child organ trafcking adequately. This chapter suggests that more orchestrated international collaboration as well as development of preventive measure and legally binding documents are needed to ght child organ trafcking and to support its victims.
Keywords Child organ trafcking Organ trafcking
Trafcking of human being for organ removal Transplant
tourism Organ transplantation
Introduction
Though human trafcking itself has a very long history, the phenomenon of organ trafcking and Trafcking in Human beings for Organ Removal (THOR) began to surface in the early 1990s. Over the past two decades, though the number of transplant facilities around the world has increased, so too has the demand for organs, resulting in a continuing shortage of organs available for transplant. According to the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation report in...