The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 47
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- The identification of removal of organs as an exploitative purpose of trafficking in persons is a major step forward in changing this unsatisfactory situation. The opportunities presented by the development of a robust international legal framework around trafficking in persons have not yet been fully taken up, however. One of the principal reasons for the failure to leverage the trafficking in persons framework against transplantation-related exploitation is the persistent attachment of some States and intergovernmental organizations to a distinction between trafficking in organs and trafficking in persons for removal of organs. As shown above, this distinction is largely unjustified because the principal issue of focus, the exploitation of persons who are compelled by need or force to provide organs for transplantation to people within their own countries or to foreigners, falls squarely within the international legal definition of trafficking in persons.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Movement
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Persons on the move
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 47
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