Egypt-Organ+Trafficking


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 *  “ **The brokers should be stopped. My real problem is poverty -- I shouldn't have to sell my kidney to save my daughter's life” This quote was given by a mother of concern who was willing to sell part of herself to save her daughter in dire need of help and no one India stopped her. Doctors were willing to let the mother harm herself by getting rid of an organ if it meant receiving money. The definition of Organ trafficking is the process of illegally acquiring an organ in which the “donor” is given a quantity of money as a payment or if any. This process has left many donors scarred for life. World Health Organization(WHO) said that one of the most common transplants are kidney which has been performed with about 65,700 renal transplants annually and its thought that 10 % of these transplants come from living donors who are mainly poor individuals from developing nations. Asia has become the storehouse of illegal organs, billions of dollars change hands every month for organs. In the past two decades the Asian region has been the place to be to receive quick, easy, and cheap life-saving organs. These organs are given by foreign donors who are extremely poor. WHO stated that today organ trafficking accounts to 10 % of all transplants worldwide. One of the main issues to why we have organ trafficking is poverty. In fact, 90% of donors come from below the poverty line and 90% of those donors are donating in order to ease their financial troubles. Transplants have become a growing problem and with growing long waiting lists “transplant tourism” has become more popular. Transplant tourism is in which rich patients go travel abroad in order to buy kidneys from poor donors. 70,000 kidney transplants are performed worldwide annually though as many 15,000 kidneys could be trafficked each year. The top 8 countries with the issue of organ trafficking is Kosovo, Mozambique, Israel/ Palestine, India, Pakistan, Egypt, China, and Moldova.

 The United Nations has tried to take steps in order to minimize the damage done by Organ Trafficking and are trying to slowly eliminate organ trafficking globally. In an attempt to do so the United Nations has constructed the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism which makes countries that participate in Declaration have to establish a legal and professional framework to have set a govern organ donations and transplants. Furthermore the UN office of the special adviser on gender issues and the advancement of women (OSAGI) and The council of Europe have set a meeting to speak about Organ Trafficking in order to spread the knowledge of how Organ Trafficking is affecting out world. The UN has personally worked with NGO inorder to provide a pplatform for a new campaign to co-ordinate actions in tackling trafficking in everykind. Also Organ Watch has made it their mission to map global organ trafficking, and to identify hospitals, surgeons brokers, and business operations that facilitate trade in body parts.Organ watch also wishes to determine the social ,political, and economic consequence that organ trafficking brings with. Egypt is mainly seen as one of the worst countries suffering from Organ Trafficking to be more accurate they are rated #3 out of the top 8 countries with the worst organ trafficking yet we do not see the advancements we have made in order to lower organ trafficking. We are muslim nation that believes that you must not remove a body organ from the dead ,since it’s a sign of disrespect.One of our many attempts to minimize the amount of our people giving up their organs was by working with the Coalition for Organ- Failure Solutions(COFS). Our partnership with COFS has let us have an chance to meet with organizations concerning international health and human rights. We are also, with the help of COFS,able to spread the knowledge of what are the dangers of organ trafficking .One of the main issues face by Egypt is that our civilians are not given information about what they are doing. So we purpose that missionaries from the red cross go to the top 5 countries with biggest issue and tell the people about the issues one can face with organ trafficking. Also we want to propose a stricter laws stating that there must be punishments for organ trafficking and if said law is not established within 10 years UN should be able to go into nation and request the law again. We believe in having annual check up on the top 8 countries with organ trafficking, three year check with countries with the same issue but not as much, and a five year check with the rest of the countries to report how they are doing with organ trafficking, statistics and reports from hospitals. 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