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Organ Transplantation
The Additional Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Transplantation of
Organs and Tissues of Human Origin contains general principles and specific provisions concerning transplantation.
The Additional Protocol has been signed and ratified by a number of countries since its opening for signature on 24 January
2002 and is now in force.
The Council of Europe and the United Nations published a Joint study on trafficking in organs, tissues
and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the removal of organs,
which recommends that a new
international Convention is needed to prevent trafficking in organs, tissues and cells (OTC),
protect victims and prosecute offenders
The launching event. This new joint Council of Europe/United Nations publication was presented at a special launching event in
the United Nations headquarters in New York on 13 October 2009 on the occasion of the 64th Session of the
United Nations General Assembly.
Link to the launching event
A small part of the wider problem. The study stresses that trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal is a small part of
the wider problem of trafficking in organs, tissues and cells (OTC) and highlights that there is widespread confusion in
the legal and scientific communities between the two types of trafficking, which require different solutions.
Executive Summary of the Joint Study [PDF]
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