Social &Humanitarian Committee Final Resolution

Committee: Social and Humanitarian

Topic Area B: Measures taken in order to stop illicit organ transplants.

Sponsored by: USA

Submitted by: USA, UAE, Japan, Switzerland, Kenya, Ireland, Hellas, India, Serbia, Indonesia, Belgium, Gerogia, Australia, The Netherlands, UK, Canada, Portugal, Iraq, Cyprus, Italy

The Social & Humanitarian committee,

Having examined organ trafficking, we note that it consists of the recruiment, transportation, transfer, harboring or detaining of people for the purpose of organ removal and exploitation. Organ trafficking usually involves a process of using illicit means sych as threat, use of force or other forms of coercion suck as adbuction, fraud or deception. It may also include procurement of organs from executed prisoners.

Noting with interest that although illicit organ transplants usually takes place across borders, it may also be perpetrated illegally within a single national territory.

Bearing in mind the possible consequenses of the practices pertaining to organ trade and trafficking in the UAE and the world in general, we suggest:

1. Recommending that each country shall consider taking measures that permit, in accordance with its domestic law, the denial of entry or revocation of visas of persons implicated in offences related to illicit organ transplants;

2. Supports the increase of cloning organs by using organ cells. In this way the use of artificial organs will be efficient and hospitals will provide organs to patients on time;

3. Underlines the need of appropriate measures to encourage individuals to indicate with their consent their wish to donate their organs and the need of national campaigns that will promote organ donation effectively and improve donor awareness in order to increase the availability of organs and tissues and reduce demand,

a) Public awarness should be increased with open national debates

b) Quality and safety should be guaranteed with regards to organ transplantation by clinical institutions;

4. Emphasizing that trafficking in organs- is like trafficking in human beings or drugs-. Examples of measures to be taken in order to minimise the risk of organ trafficking in all over the world include reducing demand, promoting organ donation more effectively, maintaining strict legislation in regard to living unrelated donors, guaranteeing the transparency of national registers and waiting lists, establishing the legal responsibility of the medical profession for tracking irregularities and sharing information;

5. Support governments in their commitments to prohibit and prevent organ trafficking and undertake full implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Trans-national Organized Crime and its protocols;

6. Stresses the importance of giving urgent attention to ensuring effective oversight of organ transplantation. Countries should also establish effective regulatory control and surveillance and comply with the WHO guiding principles on human organ transplantation;

7. Promotes follow-up meeting with relevant agencies and non-governmental organizations to discuss a global strategy for action to combat trafficking in persons for the purpose of organ removal;

8. Informs the citizens about the great need of human organs, in order to increase the number of those who donate.

9. Proposes educational informative movements from experienced professors, doctors from N.G.Os and U.N. in order to infrom the new generation for the dangers which undermine human rights