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If the organ donor is human, most countries require that the donor be legally dead for consideration of organ transplantation (e.g. cardiac death or brain death). For some organs, a living donor can be the source of the organ. For example, living donors can donate one kidney or part of their liver to a well-matched recipient. [2]
Organ trade (also known as the blood market or the red market) is the trading of human organs, tissues, or other body products, usually for transplantation. [1] [2] According to the World Health Organization (WHO), organ trade is a commercial transplantation where there is a profit, or transplantations that occur outside of national medical systems.
The European Parliament heard testimony about organ harvesting in China during a 6 December 2012 session on human rights in China. One year later, it passed a resolution expressing "deep concern over the persistent and credible reports of systematic, state-sanctioned organ harvesting from non-consenting prisoners of conscience in the People's ...
The Islamic State is reportedly harvesting organs to fund its operations, according to an Iraqi official. Iraq's envoy to the U.N. told the Security Council that some bodies in mass graves had ...
The theory of animal-to-human transplants, known as xenotransplantation ... Others question the ethics of creating a class of animal for the sole purpose of slaughtering them to harvest organs ...
Human Harvest (Chinese: 活摘) is a 2014 documentary film, directed by Vancouver filmmaker Leon Lee, which follows the investigative work by Canadian Nobel Peace Prize nominees David Matas and David Kilgour on whether and how state-run hospitals in China harvested and sold organs by killing tens of thousands of prisoners of conscience, mainly Falun Gong practitioners.
Human organ trafficking poses both physical and mental health consequences for victims. [3] Although Egypt has been gradually updating legal frameworks to combat organ trafficking, the regulation has failed in reality protecting survivors and governing transplant professionals.
Ike Ekweremadu, 60, was sentenced to nine years and eight months by a judge at London’s Central Criminal Court. LONDON The post Nigerian senator, wife jailed in UK for organ-harvest plot ...