Human Organ Trafficking
Human Organ Trafficking
There are many problems with global crimes. What holds these crimes together isn’t because people around the world are committing the same crimes, it’s because these criminals have created global organizations that have ties in all the corners of the world. These groups work just like normal business do, exporting and importing goods to gain profit. However, unlike normal businesses their goods are illegal such as drugs and often inhumane such as trafficking humans. Even so there is another good that is being regularly sold illegally. Human organ trafficking is growing ever day. Despite all efforts from countries all over the world it is continuing to be a major problem in the world. All types of global criminal organizations have been destroying the societies they reside in by taking advantage of the people by trafficking human organs. The human organ trafficking problem is essentially based on the old economic rule of supply and demand. Anything that has a high demand and a low supply will have a great profit advantage. Criminals know better then anybody that the profit for selling human organs is substantial. When it costs anywhere between two to six thousand dollars to either steal or buy a kidney from some one and then turn around, sell it for over hundred thousand dollars is more then enough incentive to break the law and sell human organs. Most of the groups actually use the profit to fund other agendas. Such as drugs or even helping keep their political power. One of the greatest and most recent examples of politicians trafficking human organs is the Prime Minister of Kosovo being accused of trafficking human organs to fund his campaign. Though the allegations have never been proven and is still an ongoing investigation, the damage has already been done in his country. The populous has no trust in its government or in the UN. Kosovo is a third world country where most of the people have sold their own kidneys simple so they
There are many problems with global crimes. What holds these crimes together isn’t because people around the world are committing the same crimes, it’s because these criminals have created global organizations that have ties in all the corners of the world. These groups work just like normal business do, exporting and importing goods to gain profit. However, unlike normal businesses their goods are illegal such as drugs and often inhumane such as trafficking humans. Even so there is another good that is being regularly sold illegally. Human organ trafficking is growing ever day. Despite all efforts from countries all over the world it is continuing to be a major problem in the world. All types of global criminal organizations have been destroying the societies they reside in by taking advantage of the people by trafficking human organs. The human organ trafficking problem is essentially based on the old economic rule of supply and demand. Anything that has a high demand and a low supply will have a great profit advantage. Criminals know better then anybody that the profit for selling human organs is substantial. When it costs anywhere between two to six thousand dollars to either steal or buy a kidney from some one and then turn around, sell it for over hundred thousand dollars is more then enough incentive to break the law and sell human organs. Most of the groups actually use the profit to fund other agendas. Such as drugs or even helping keep their political power. One of the greatest and most recent examples of politicians trafficking human organs is the Prime Minister of Kosovo being accused of trafficking human organs to fund his campaign. Though the allegations have never been proven and is still an ongoing investigation, the damage has already been done in his country. The populous has no trust in its government or in the UN. Kosovo is a third world country where most of the people have sold their own kidneys simple so they
References: “Keeping an eye on the global traffic in human organs” By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “The Bellagio Task Force Report on Transplantation, Bodily Integrity, and the International Traffic in Organs.” By: This article was published in the Transplantation Proceedings (1997; 29:2739-45), and reproduced with the kind authorization of the publisher. “Organ and tissue transplantation in the European Union” By: Yvon Englert, “Illegal Human Organ Trade from Executed Prisoners in China” By: Case Study: 632, “Traffic organs from Kosovo and Albania” By: ANSA “UN: Allegations of human organ trafficking in Kosovo” By: Scoop World Independent News “Human Trafficking in Macedonia and Kosovo” By: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. “8 Countries Where Human Organs Are Harvested” By: News Pick