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Help the Children Information and Research Centre for
Children's Rights in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 3 September 2011] THE EUROPEAN
PARLIAMENT DISCUSSES THE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS IN ALBANIA - According to these
articles, a clinic in Fieri city, practices the removal of the children
organs to further transport them in Italy and France, with involvement by
Italian and French groups and individuals», writes Karamanu
in her letter. «According to the media, these doctors mobilise
Albanian networks, which pay the children’s parents whose organs are removed.
Apart form this, figures
report 39 missing children with no trace in BBC News, 23 February, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3513439.stm [accessed 20 January 2011] The Azerbaijani government
says it is keen to crack down on child traffickers who are believed to take
children abroad and sell their organs for profit. "Under the
guise of adoption, children who are allegedly afflicted by grave diseases are
taken out of Brazil,
China, Egypt, India, Moldova, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Romania Organ trafficking: a fast-expanding black
market IHS Jane's, 05 March 2008 www.traffickingproject.org/2008/03/organ-trafficking-fast-expanding-black.html [accessed 26 June 2013] China, China 'Alarming' Trade in Human Organ Trafficking Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/06/07/us-crime-trafficking-philippines-idUSMAN28233220070607 [accessed 13 June 2013] The International
Organization for Migration (IOM) expressed alarm on Thursday over rising
cases of trade in human organs in Reed said many
trafficking cases in Asia "end up in situations of forced begging,
delinquency, adoption, false marriage, or most recently, as victims of the
thriving trade in human organs".
He said trafficking for organs was on the rise in China and in many
impoverished states in Southeast Asia, like Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam. Six charged in organ trafficking case at Jan Richter, Radio www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/six-charged-in-organ-trafficking-case-at-brno-hospital [accessed 31 January 2011] Between 2003 and
2004, five employees of the tissue bank at the Brno-Bohunice
hospital, together with one outsider, sold 7 million crowns worth of skin
graft to a Dutch company. The Organized Crime Squad of the Czech police have
now finished investigating the case and charged the persons involved with
illegal organ trafficking. It took the Czech
police three and a half years to close the case of illegal organ trafficking
at a hospital in Organ trafficking on the rise in Sarah Sheffer, Bikya Masr (Egyptian: resellable
clutter), www.masress.com/en/bikyamasr/50684 [accessed 13 June 2013] A shocking new
report by the Coalition for Organ Failure Solutions (COFS) COFS estimates that
there are thousands of victims of organ trafficking in India 'Dr Kidney'
arrest exposes Indian organ traffic Sandhya Srinivasan, Inter Press Service
News Agency IPS, Mumbai, Feb 22, 2008 www.traffickingproject.org/2008/02/dr-kidney-arrest-exposes-indian-organ.html [accessed 26 January 2016] www.ipsnews.net/2008/02/health-south-asia-hub-for-global-organ-trade/ [accessed 28 April 2020] The arrest of
"Doctor Kidney" Amit Kumar for running a sizeable racket in live
kidneys has highlighted the role that South Asia plays as the hub of an
international trade in human organs. A
sophisticated but unregulated healthcare industry, a "donor pool"
of desperately poor people ready to sell a kidney, and a corrupt monitoring
system have combined to create a special brand of
"medical tourism" in the region, especially in India and
neighboring Pakistan. Kumar is accused of
luring poor laborers to his "hospital" in the New Delhi suburb of
Gurgaon with promises of job offers or large sums of money. Typically, they
were promised 300,000 rupees (US$7,500) but paid only 30,000 ($750) after the
surgery, police said. He is alleged to
have conducted more than 500 transplants over an unspecified period, charging
up to $50,000 dollars for each operation. Investigators say his patients came
from Britain, the United States, Turkey, Nepal, Dubai, Syria and Saudi
Arabia. Iran The price of Iranian girls after entering
the Persian Gulf trafficking market May 2005 SINA News Agency, 6 July 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] The Colonel adds: ?The girls who run away from home have no idea what the
future holds for them. We have 200 missing girls in Tehran, as we speak and
we only know of the fate of a few. There are many rings lurking for these
young women and girls. They use these run-a-way girls for stealing,
trafficking and for illicit drugs and sex. Most of all they use these victims
for their organs.? Every once in a while bodies of
unknown girls are found here and there in large cities, particularly in
Tehran. Some of these bodies are identified; however most of them are buried
without being identified because no one comes to claim their body. The dealers of
human organs are also trafficking girls by promising them a better life and
transporting them across borders. Once taken to another country, the
traffickers sell the girls? body parts for enormous
amounts of money. Bruce Johnston in www.vachss.com/help_text/a2/italy_baby_sales.html [accessed 14 February 2011] The three-strong
gang of Ukrainians, including the baby's mother, sold the boy for 350,000
euros (£250,000) while he was still in the womb, not realising
that the successful bidders were undercover carabinieri police officers. Moldova Government officials behind record rise in
Moldova organ trade Karen Ryan, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 September 2011] There are villages
in the Southern region of Mozanbique Six held over nun's murder in Mozambique The Australian, 2 March 2004 cathnews.acu.edu.au/403/12.php [accessed 22 February 2011] www.iol.co.za/news/africa/brazilian-missionary-found-dead-in-mozambique-206721 [accessed 13 January 2020] Four missionary
nuns living in the same town told Portuguese radio TSF last week that they
had recently had a narrow escape from an armed ambush after presenting what
they said was evidence that local children were being killed so that their
organs could be sold. The four nuns
told a Spanish newspaper earlier this month that they had gathered testimony
from would-be victims of the network who had managed to escape and had
photographs of dead children with missing organs. Philippines Filipino children sell kidneys to help
parents Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief, Gulf
News, June 23, 2009 gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/filipino-children-sell-kidneys-to-help-parents-1.29276 [accessed 16 December 2010] RELATED :: www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-18/desperately-poor-filipinos-sell-kidneys/2409350 [accessed 5 May 2020] Some 250 Filipinos,
two of them below 18, have sold one of their kidneys to recruiters who supply
them to patients who need transplants, a local paper has said. "Someone recruited them and they were
paid 112,000 pesos (Dh8,493) each for their
kidneys," Abueva said, adding that forcing or
persuading Filipino children to sell their kidneys is the newest form of
child exploitation in the country today.
Syndicates are now using online marketing, through the internet, where
they offer organs to prospective foreign and local buyers, said Dr Benita Padilla of the National Kidney and Transplant
Institute. Philippines NBI raises alarm on child-organ trafficking ABS-CBN News Online, 24 Aug 2008 unionssaynotochildlabor.com/nbi-raises-alarm-on-child-organ-trafficking/ [accessed 16 December 2010] news.abs-cbn.com/nation/metro-manila/08/24/08/nbi-raises-alarm-child-organ-trafficking [accessed 12 February 2018] The National Bureau
of Investigation alerted the public on Sunday over the rampant smuggling of
human organs in the Zimbabwe Combat Human Trafficking [Category – Sale of Organs] The Herald, Harare, 10 April 2007 allafrica.com/stories/200704100256.html [accessed 18 June 2013] Markets for body
parts in the southern Africa region seem to be on the upsurge as reports
indicate that numbers of missing girl children and women are shooting up,
particularly in neighbouring countries. The
human parts found in the plastic bag in Bindura are suspected breasts and
private parts of a woman probably trafficked under the pretext of job
promises. Human body parts are believed to enhance profits in business
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