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organ trafficking

Northeastern University law Professor Kara Swanson says the average wait time for an organ transplant is getting increasingly worse.
Health
A legal market for organs? It’s not as far-fetched as you think.
An unidentified Filipino man who sold his kidney for a transplant shows his scar while cooking at his home in a slum of Manila.
Medicine
How Costa Rica became the epicenter of the black market in kidneys
An estimated two-thirds of organ transplants in China come from executed prisoners
Global Politics
In China, Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners
Conflict & Justice
Kosovo leaders run crime network’