The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking 13-15 February 2008, Austria Center Vienna Background Paper ACTORS INVOLVED IN TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS FOR ORGAN REMOVAL The commission of this crime can be distinguished from other forms of trafficking in persons in terms of the sectors from which traffickers and organ ‘brokers’ derive; doctors and other health-care practitioners, ambulance drivers and mortuary workers are often involved in organ trafficking in addition to those involved in other criminal trafficking networks. Given the complex nature of transplant transactions, a range of skills from various sectors of society is required including, but by no means limited, to the following: • Medical directors of transplant units • Hospital and medical staff • Technicians in blood and tissue laboratories • Dual surgical teams working in tandem • Nephrologists • Postoperative nurses • Travel agents and tour operators to organize travel, passports and visas • Medical insurance agents • ‘Kidney hunters (to recruit ‘donors’ locally or internationally from among vulnerable and marginalized populations) • Religious organizations and charitable trusts, which sometimes call upon organ brokers • Patient advocacy organizations, which sometimes call upon organ brokers
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