http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-organ-trafficking-2004.

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The traffic in human beings is flourishing. The global business involving human goods has now reached dimensions comparable to those of the illicit trades in drugs and weapons. There are two main reasons why this business is thriving: on the one hand, the harsh living conditions, mostly characterised by poverty, unemployment and a lack of perspectives in the countries of origin. On the other hand, the demand that exists in the rich countries of the West. It is in their shadow economies that the victims are exploited: as cheap labourers and as prostitutes in the sex industry, through forced marriage and illegal adoption or for the removal of organs for transplantation. Human rights standards are broadly violated. The trafficked persons themselves, the majority of them women and children, know far too little about their rights or about the appropriate channels to take to assert them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/healthnews/surgeon-organ-trade-should-be-legalised-846234.html Professor Noorani, a former transplant surgeon at the Barts and London NHS Trust "Banning the trade is not an option, he adds, and switching to a system of cadaveric donation (after death) might encourage a black market with donors being killed for their organs. Instead, he says, Pakistan should establish an authority, jointly with the private sector, to encourage live donations. "This would provide adequate compensation and incentives to donors and would avoid the exploitation of [them]," he writes.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1833858,00.html
Singapore, like Thailand and Malaysia, is already heavily invested in medical tourism. In 2003, Singapore's government set up an agency specifically tasked with attracting foreigners to the city's state of the art hospitals. They've succeeded: according to a January report by Credit Suisse, Singapore hospitals treated around 200,000 foreigners in 2002. Last year, they treated more than half a million. At some of Singapore's best private hospitals, foreigners account for a third of total patients and up to 40 percent of revenue.

http://liberator.net/articles/TremblayFrancois/OrganTrade.html

In a free society, organ trade should not be a problem. We should be free to do whatever we want with our

body, and even sell organs if desired. It is the most noble and fundamental right that each human being has. Unfortunately, the Drug Prohibition proves that our governments do not uphold this right

Likewise, the Organ Prohibition is an attack on our right to our body. In a meaningful way, we are held hostage by the state in the name of human dignity. Such an absurd contradiction is difficult to resolve, but it is a consequence of statist power. http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_a rticle/8875
Like many other countries, Malaysia has a problem with human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation and forced labour. Most of the victims come from countries in the region like China, Nepal, Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines. Now the Malaysian Ministry of Home Affairs has added a new twist to this sad story with claims that its citizens have been the victims of organ trafficking activities abroad. Secretary-general Datuk Abdul Rahim Mohd Radzi said that most of the victims were women and children who were kidnapped and taken to a foreign country where their organs were removed and sold. However, he gave no details of the scale of the trafficking, apart from saying that some of those who were deceived into selling their organs abroad were not remunerated as promised. He said, "This organ trade, which may happen by force, conscious or unconsciously, is deemed wrong under the Anti-Human Trafficking Act 2007." Only 186 people have been charged under the Act in the last two years http://www.ungift.org/knowledgehub/en/about/trafficking-fororgan-trade.html
Trafficking in organs is a crime that occurs in three broad categories. Firstly, there are cases where traffickers force or deceive the victims into giving up an organ. Secondly, there are cases where victims formally or

informally agree to sell an organ and are cheated because they are not paid for the organ or are paid less than the promised price. Thirdly, vulnerable persons are treated for an ailment, which may or may not exist and thereupon organs are removed without the victim's knowledge. The vulnerable categories of persons include migrants, especially migrant workers, homeless persons, illiterate persons, etc. It is known that trafficking for organ trade could occur with persons of any age. Organs which are commonly traded are kidneys, liver and the like; any organ which can be removed and used, could be the subject of such illegal trade.