GC: n
S: WHO – https://bit.ly/2G4CuiI (last access: 1 February 2019); UNODC – https://bit.ly/2WC4gIL (last access: 1 February 2019).
N: 1. – organ (n): fusion of late Old English organe, and Old French orgene (12c.), both meaning “musical instrument,” both from Latin organa, plural of organum “a musical instrument,” from Greek organon “implement, tool for making or doing; musical instrument; organ of sense, organ of the body,” literally “that with which one works,” from PIE *werg-ano-, from root *werg- “to do.”
– trafficking (n): traffic + -ing. As a verb: present participle of traffic / present participle of traffick. As a noun: trafficking (plural traffickings).
2. Article 3, paragraph (a) of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs
3. Organ trafficking has become an international trade.
4. Increasing demand for donated organs, uncontrolled trafficking and the challenges of transplantation between closely-related species have prompted a serious re-evaluation of international guidelines and given new impetus to the role of WHO in gathering epidemiological data and setting basic normative standards.
There are no reliable data on organ trafficking — or indeed transplantation activity in general — but it is widely believed to be on the increase, with brokers reportedly charging between US$ 100 000 and US$ 200 000 to organize a transplant for wealthy patients. Donors — frequently impoverished and ill-educated — may receive as little as US$ 1000 for a kidney although the going price is more likely to be about US$ 5000.
A resolution adopted at this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA) voiced “concern at the growing insufficiency of available human material for transplantation to meet patient needs,” and urged Member States to “extend the use of living kidney donations when possible, in addition to donations from deceased donors.”
S: 1. OED – https://bit.ly/2HKlekL (last access: 1 February 2019); Wiktionary – https://bit.ly/2TnyAEI (last access: 1 February 2019). 2. UNODC – https://bit.ly/1snpFhV (last access: 1 February 2019). 3. TERMIUM PLUS – https://bit.ly/2BeJXId (last access: 1 February 2019). 4. WHO – https://bit.ly/2G4CuiI (last access: 1 February 2019).
SYN: organ traffic.
S: TERMIUM PLUS – https://bit.ly/2BeJXId (last access: 1 February 2019)
