The issue of trafficking in persons for the removal of organs 2013, para. 20
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- The focus of the present report is on one aspect of the broader environment sketched above: 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, to use the language of the Doha Communiqué of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, adopted on 14 April 2013. The terminology around this phenomenon is not settled. Some States and intergovernmental organizations claim that there is a difference between trafficking in organs and trafficking in persons for the removal of organs, with the latter a small subset of the former. The Special Rapporteur considers that the difference is largely semantic, given that organs are not moved or traded independently of their source. Rather, the source is moved or positioned in such a way as to make transplantation possible. Accordingly, it is more accurate to characterize the practice described above as "trafficking in persons for the removal of organs".
- 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
- 20
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