header-logo header-logo

19 July 2024 / Anne Zimmerman
Issue: 8080 / Categories: Features , Profession , Human rights , Criminal , International
printer mail-detail

The criminal trade in human organs

182199
Anne Zimmerman reports on efforts to stop a deadly harvest
  • Sets out strategies to combat crimes and corruption in organ transplant.
  • Focuses on state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting in China.
  • References the China Tribunal full report in 2020 on Falun Gong practitioner victims.

Sometimes medicine and science, or scientific discovery, are privileged above our common humanity. In the case of forced organ harvesting, the killing of humans for the sake of providing organs for transplant, bad actors are intentionally violating human rights. Organ trafficking and trafficking in persons for organ removal are forms of criminal exploitation, in the same vein as state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting like that described in China (the China Tribunal Judgment, 2020, see Chinatribunal.com, Independent tribunal into forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China). All violate the requirements set forth in the World Health Organisation Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue, and Organ Transplantation that organ donation be voluntary and consensual.

Torture, genocide, crimes against humanity, modern slavery and exploitation

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen—Liz Giles

Bell Yard Kysen appoints senior legal PR and ex-government communications adviser, Liz Giles

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott—Lee Edwards

Clarke Willmott boosts Southampton commercial property team with addition of partner Lee Edwards

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors—four promotions

Lime Solicitors announces four promotions

NEWS
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
back-to-top-scroll