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COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON TRAFFICKING IN HUMAN
ORGANS (PC-TO)
As demonstrated in the
joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study on trafficking in organs,
tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the
removal of organs from 2009, the trafficking in human organs, tissues
and cells is a problem of global proportions that violates basic human
rights and constitutes a direct threat to individual and public health.
Under the authority of the European Committee on Crime Problems (CDPC),
and taking into account the Council of Europe Convention of Human Rights
and Biomedicine and its Additional Protocol concerning Transplantation
of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin, the Council of Europe Convention
on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, the WHO Guiding
Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation, the
Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, the
joint Council of Europe/United Nations Study “Trafficking in organs,
tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the
removal of organs” and the additional opinion of the Steering Committee
on Bioethics (CDBI), the European Committee of Crime Problems (CDPC) and
the European Committee on Transplantation of Organs (CD-P-TO) prepared
by experts of the three steering committees, the Committee shall prepare
i) a draft criminal law convention against trafficking in human organs
and, if appropriate, ii) a draft additional protocol to the aforesaid
draft criminal law convention against trafficking in human tissues and
cells.
The Committee shall ensure that the draft convention and its possible
draft additional protocol provide added value, inter alia, when
addressing the following issues in their respective fields:
- criminalisation of trafficking in human organs;
- criminalisation of trafficking in human tissues and cells;
- prevention of trafficking in human organs;
- prevention of trafficking in human tissues and cells;
- assistance to victims;
- international co-operation. |
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3rd
meeting of the
Committee of Experts on Trafficking in Human Organs,
Tissues and Cells (PC-TO)
shall take place in Strasbourg on 26-29 June 2012
