Showing posts with label trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trafficking. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Vatican statement on gender-affirming surgery and human dignity

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 A new statement from the Vatican has been widely covered in the press. Here's the story from the National Catholic Reporter: Vatican co...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Foreign surrogacy in Denmark is becoming less restrictive

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 Above the Law has the story: Denmark Passes New Pro-Surrogacy Regulations. The new rules in Denmark focus on two areas of surrogacy.  By EL...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Black market monkeys for medical research

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 Monkeys used in medical research are supposed to come from carefully bred laboratory colonies, but the rising price has led to black market...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

The international market for squid (and how squid came to be calamari...)

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China's fishing fleet plays a giant role in the international market for squid. The New Yorker has the story: THE CRIMES BEHIND THE SEAF...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Organ trafficking, and how to reduce it -- Frederike Ambagtsheer in Conversation

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Frederike Ambagtsheer , who studies illegal markets for organs and transplants,  has some sensible thoughts on how to combat organ trafficki...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

NPR on black markets for kidneys from Nepal, for India

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Here's an 8-minute video from National Public Radio about the black market for kidneys, trafficked from Nepal to India.  Some of the peo...
Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Organ trafficking in America, on National Geographic TV, premiering tomorrow

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National Geographic TV tweets about a new series on organ trafficking, premiering tomorrow night, with a video trailer that suggests that th...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Two illegal (former) kidney transplant networks analyzed: the Netcare -and Medicus cases, by Ambagtsheer and Bugter

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 There aren't many successful prosecutions resulting from illegal organ trafficking, despite the fact that the prevalence of illegal kid...
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Debate on international surrogacy in Norway

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 In Norway, where surrogacy is illegal, there is a debate about whether surrogacy conducted legally in other countries should also be crimin...
Thursday, July 14, 2022

Allegations of organ trafficking for kidney transplants--in England and India

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 From time to time there are stories of prosecutions for organ trafficking in connection with kidney transplants. Here's a story develop...
Monday, June 27, 2022

A Forum on Kidneys for Sale in Iran, in Transplant International

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 Just published in Transplant International  (which is the journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation), is a paper describing...
Saturday, February 5, 2022

The black market in looted antiquities

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  The market for ancient art has a dark underside, that involves not just the usual shady characters we expect to encounter in black markets...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022

Evictions and coalitions in the housing market of hermit crabs--shell trafficking in the wild

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  I've previously blogged about the observation that hermit crabs, who live in the shells of other animals and have to get new shells as...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

Disrupting black markets: call for papers

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  Laws banning markets often create black markets. And the same technologies that facilitate legal markets may do so for illegal markets tha...
Friday, December 4, 2020

The black market for endangered birds

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Laws that ban markets are sometimes the blueprints for the black markets that arise in the place of legal markets. That turns out to be the ...
Sunday, October 4, 2020

Grocery supply chains: TNR reviews "The Secret Life of Groceries"

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 The New Republic reviews  The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket , by Benjamin Lorr,  (It tells you mor...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Crime and punishment in the sex trade--an ongoing controversy in the U.S.

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Two stories in the NY Times speak of the difficulty of regulating the sex trade, which may consist of both voluntary sex workers and victim...
Friday, October 11, 2019

Followup on Robert Kraft: disappearing sex trafficking in Florida

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Vanity Fair has a followup on the widely publicized Florida investigation of sex trafficking that included the arrest of Patriots owner Rob...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Legal brothels and sex trafficking in Germany

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Apparently it's hard to staff a really high volume brothel entirely with voluntary sex workers.  The Guardian has the story: Trouble ...
Monday, June 10, 2019

Fighting trafficking by decriminalizing sex work in Mexico City

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The Guardian has the story: Mexico City will decriminalize sex work in move against trafficking "Mexico City lawmakers have given ...