This is the second in a two-part series about the international organ black market and how bad actors are using different means to buy and sell body parts.
An organ black market thrives in certain regions based on skirted laws, bad actors and an unethical approach to broader organ transplantation—and law enforcement collaboration at the international level is the only way to curb it, experts have told Newsweek.
A Newsweek investigation previously uncovered a global marketplace trafficking organs through social media channels like Telegram and the Dark Web. Some of the traffickers operate openly in the public domain, facilitated by organ harvesting conducted through coercion or exploitation.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates there were around 700 victims trafficked for organ removal between 2008 and 2022. But numbers are difficult to parse based on in-person and online sales combined with
The Dark Side of Transplant Tourism: Inside the Illegal Organ Black Market
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