LibGuides: Human Trafficking Resource Guide: Organ Trade

Streaming Media

The International Organ Trafficking Market
NPR, Talk of the Nation. Aired July 30, 2009.
Child torturers of the Sinai desert : horrific footage reveals human traffickers are even targeting babies to get families to pay ransoms
Reilly, Jill. (2012, Sept. 20). Mail Online. News article and video
How Much is Your Dead Body Worth?
McGann, P., (Narrator). (2008). Lachmann, M. (Producer & Director). BBC Horizon
Horizon investigates the medical revolution that has created an almost insatiable demand for body parts and uncovers the growing industry and grisly black market that supplies human bodies for a price.
Blood, Bones And Organs: The Gruesome 'Red Market'
Block, M. (June 10, 2011). NPR. All Things Considered.
Interview with James Carney, author of Red Market, the shadowy, underground but lucrative global marketplace for blood, bones and organs.
Humans for harvest and organs for trade: The ethics of buying body parts
Tremonte, A.M. (June 23, 2013). CBC.CA Radio. Line in the Sand.
Exploring the lives of people who buy and sell kidneys.
The Organ Traders
Ruhfus, J. (Dec. 20, 2012). Al Jazeera. People & Power.
An investigation into illegal human organ trading in Kosovo, Turkey and Israel, and the challenges facing law enforcers.
Article and Video
The Body Trade
BBC Global Crime Report.
A series of four radio programs:
Sex Trafficking
Organ Trafficking Trade
Trafficking for Labour
Trafficking Babies
The Organ Trade
National Geographic

Iraqi families sell organs to overcome poverty
Maher, Ahmed. (April 20, 2016). BBC News.
Girl smuggled into Britain to have her 'organs harvested'
Swinford. Steven. (18 Oct 2013). The Telegraph.
Organ trafficking: did dark trade steal little boy's eyes?
The Week. (28 Aug 2013)
Red Cross Allegations Shine Light on China Organ Trade
Shi Shan and Wen Jian. (July 12, 2013). Radio Free Asia.
Canadians desperate for transplants turn to illegal organ trade
CTV News. (June 1, 2013)
People smugglers target their victims as organ donors and house slaves
Doward, Jamie. (2012, August 23). The Guardian.
Organ Trafficking on the Rise
O'Reilly, A. (August 16, 2012). Fox News Latino.
Revealed: grisly trade in body parts
Article - with video. The Sydney Morning Herald, July 18, 2012
Black Market for Body Parts Spreads Among the Poor in Europe
Bilefsky, D. (2012, June 28). New York Times
Organ trafficking: 'Her heart was missing'
Arsenault, Chris. Aljazeera, May 17, 2011. (Retrieved July 2012)

Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism : A Commentary on the Global Realities
Budiani-Saberi, D.A. ; Delmonicob, F.L. (2008). American Journal of Transplantation, 8: 925–929. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02200.x
The State of Interntional Organ Trade : a Provisional Picture Based on Integration of Available Information
Shimazono, Yasuke. (2007). Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 85 : 955-962.
Trafficking in Organs, Tissues and Cells and Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of the Removal of Organs
Caplan, Arthur ; Dominguez, Beatriz ; Matesanz, Rafael ; Prior, Carmen. Strasbourg France : Council of Europe, Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs, 2009.
Vera's Kidney, Walter's Money : Desperation, Greed and the Global Organ Trade
Ginzel, Ardnt : Kraushaar, Martin ; Winter, Steffen. (30 July 2012). Vera's niere, Walters geld. Der Spiegel. Retrieved from Spiegel Online International, August 2012.
Innovations in Stem Cell Research: The Solution to Organ Trafficking?
Dotimas, J. (April 17,2013). Harvard College Global Health Review
Organs for Sale
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe

Moniruzzaman, M. (March 2012). "Living Cadavers” in Bangladesh: Bioviolence in the Human Organ Bazaar. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 26 (1) : 61-91. DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1387.2011.01197.x

Monir Moniruzzaman, a medical anthropologist at Michigan State University, is documenting the disturbing trend as part of his latest research