Showing posts with label trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trafficking. Show all posts
Monday, November 24, 2025

Illicit organ trade, in Nigeria and elsewhere

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 Here's an article about organ (kidney) trafficking, by a Nigerian physician, which has a good account of the background of the Nigerian...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?

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 Right now it is illegal to buy or cell rhino horn, to protect endangered rhinoceroses from poachers who kill them.  But could a legal, tigh...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Arguments against paying for plasma and other Substances of Human Origin (SoHO)

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 Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) have a growing, often lifesaving role in modern medicine, from breast milk for premature babies, to kidne...
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...