BMJ 2007;334:656 (31 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39167.483438.DB
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UN calls for tougher rules to prevent sale of children's organs
John Zarocostas
Geneva
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Juan Miguel Petit, a human rights lawyer and the United Nations' independent expert on the exploitation of children, has called for the strengthening of global rules against transplant tourism in addition to safeguards to avoid the donation and selling of organs by minors.
Reported cases of sale and trafficking of organs in which a minor was involved have heightened fears that transplant tourism can involve children as well as adults.
Mr Petit said that countries need to take "very careful measures" to avoid the donation of organs by minors, which can be "not donations but the desperate selling by families of an organ of a child so that they can get the money to survive."
He stressed that many countries do not have transplant agencies and that many countries accept the selling of organs.
"Different levels of legislation for the removal of organs has created loopholes, black holes, in which
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