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Human trafficking: the dark side of the body parts trafficking
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Human trafficking: the dark side of the body parts trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Unfortunately, it is known to most of the international actors that China has replaced Latin America or India as a major world supplier of organs for transplantation. Don’t be misunderstood as transplantation of organs is a lifesaving therapy which has been proven very successful in saving lives over decades now. However, the demand always overcome…

UNODC Launch Manual to Tackle Underreported Crime of Organ Trade
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UNODC Launch Manual to Tackle Underreported Crime of Organ Trade

ByEyes on Trafficking News

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a new toolkit on how to effectively investigate and prosecute the trafficking of people for the purpose of organ removal – a form of trafficking that has been persistently left in the dark, yet is detected in many countries around the world. Driven largely…

All you need to know about organ transplants
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All you need to know about organ transplants

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Editor’s note: this article contains great information about transplants and a good general overview of the transplant process.  Globally, about 20 people die every day while waiting for a transplant. There are several organs and tissues that one can donate including kidneys, heart, blood, lungs, liver, pancreas, intestines, thymus, bone marrow, bones, tendon, ligaments, corneas,…

Uyghur Genocide: China faces Human Rights investigations over forced organ harvesting
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Uyghur Genocide: China faces Human Rights investigations over forced organ harvesting

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By Ali Iqbal, Transplant Nephrologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, McMaster University; and Aliya Khan, Clinical professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants,…

Why the global community must pay attention to China killing prisoners to harvest their organs
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Why the global community must pay attention to China killing prisoners to harvest their organs

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fuelled the global organ trafficking industry that exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to…

China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant
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China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant

ByEyes on Trafficking News

China’s using incarcerated prisoners of conscience as organ donors for transplants for patients. It’s the only country to do it on an industrial-scale level.

Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China
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Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fueled the global organ trafficking industry which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to…