organ trade
Illicit transplant market
Organ trade is the buying and selling of human organs for transplantation.
While organ donation is legal in most countries, commercial trafficking violates international law and exploits vulnerable populations—the poor selling kidneys to wealthy recipients, prisoners used as unwilling donors.
The black market thrives where transplant waiting lists are long: The documentary exposed an international organ trade network.
- black marketIllicit trading system
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- human traffickingCriminal trade in people
- kidneyBlood-filtering organ
- liverAbdominal detoxifying organ
transplant · illegal · smuggling · harvesting · back alley · donor · recipient · surgery · underground · medical tourism · exploitation · poverty · desperation · broker · blood money · hospital · waiting list · cornea
- crimerobbery, accomplice, alibi, burglary, conspiracy
- black marketblack market, smugglers, contraband, traffickers, bootleggers
- exploitationexploit, predatory, sex trafficking, take advantage, human trafficking
- human traffickinghuman trafficking, trafficking, traffickers, trafficking victims, victims
- bioethicsbioethics, medical ethics, genetic engineering, beneficence, non-maleficence
- dirty moneydirty money, ill-gotten gains, illicit funds, illicit gains, proceeds of crime
organ, trade, organs, organic, organically, organism, organisms, organize, organized