HUMAN ORGAN TRAFFICKING RESOURCES
These are Human Organ Trafficking Resources.
Please also see:
Bonded Labor/Debt Bondage || Exploitation of Immigrants by Traffickers/Employers
Human Trafficking
ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH
(click here for Organizations/Agencies)
Adoption Body Suspects Organ Sale Racket in Andhra Pradesh
India Abroad News Service, May 1, 2001
Bellagio Task Force Report on Transplantation, Bodily Integrity,
and the International Traffic in Organs
Report reprinted from Transplantation Proceedings, 1997.
Black Market In Transplant Organs
New York Daily News, August 25, 2002.
China’s Execution, Inc.
Village Voice, May 2001
China Sells Organs of Slain Convicts
The Observer, December 10, 2000
Despite Ban, Organs Still Sold in India
Reuters Health, March 9, 2001
Dozens Killed For Body Parts
The Sunday Times, July 29, 2001
Family To Sue Court For Selling Kidneys
South China Morning Post, June 30, 2001
- Rare Chinese Newspaper Exposé Details Prisoner Organ Harvests
The Washington Post, July 31, 2001 - China Paper Sacks Organ Trade Reporter
Reuters, August 2, 2001
Financial Incentives for Organ Donation
A bioethics white paper from the United Network for Organ Sharing, June 30, 1993.
For-Profit Tissue Banks Outside Government Control
Reuters Health, May 25, 2001
Global Demand Fuels Human OrganTrade
BBC News, June 28, 2001
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
Current Anthropology, April 2000
Illegal Kidney Trade: Desperate Patients Buy Kidneys From Poor People in Unregulated Market
ABC News' World News Tonight, July 9, 2001
ISO Healthy Kidney; Top Dollar Paid
CNN, May 29, 2001
Italy Rushes in Law to Ban 'Spare Part' Baby Sales
The Telegraph, May 18, 2003
'I Was Forced to Kill my Baby'
BBC News, April 2, 2002
Med Examiner's Office Has Secret Body-Parts Deal
Boston Herald, May 20, 2002
National Organ Transplant Act
Summary of Public Law 98-507, governing transplantation, transportation and banning sale of human organs in the U.S.
The New Cannibalism
Report by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, on the trafficking of human organs, New Internationalist, April 1998.
New Program Aims to Monitor Organ Trafficking
Augusta Chronicle, November 8, 1999
Organ Trafficking Clinic Busted
Middle East Times, Issue 24
Poor Sell Organs to Trans-Atlantic Trafficking Ring
Inter Press Service, February 23, 2004
Position of the Transplantation Society on Paid Organ Donation
Statement by the Transplantation Society against paid organ harvesting.
Prime Minister of Kosovo is head of organ harvesting and drug ring in Eastern Europe: report
The Daily News, December 15, 2010
Prisoners' Organs Sold In China
United Press International, June 27, 2001
Russian Grandmother "Wanted to Sell Child for Organs"
CNN, November 28, 2000
ORGANIZATIONS/AGENCIES
(click here for Articles/Information/Research)
Organs Watch Berkeley
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
232 Kroeber Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
sunsite.berkeley.edu/biotech/organswatch/
Investigates and documents sale and trafficking of human organs, violations of international laws and human rights. Research and publications, rumors, documented cases, laws by country pertaining to organ harvesting and transplantation.
