Resolution

1. Resolution 2. Forum: The General Assembly 3. 4. Question of: Fighting illegal trade with organs 5. 6. Submitted by: Tunisia 7. 8. Co-submitted by: 9. 10. General Assembly, 11. 12. Keeping in mind that there is not enough information in mass media about trafficking 13. human organs, 14. 15. Noting further that it is a worldwide problem, 16. 17. Declaring that at the end of the year 2007 6,698 patients were listed as actively waiting 18. for a transplant, 19. 20. Bearing in mind the existence and development of global black market for organs, 21. 22. Alarmed by the potential growth of the number of criminal groups which deal with 23. trafficking organs, 24. 25. Noting with concern that trafficking in human organs is a violation of the human rights, 26. 27. Realizing the huge gap between demand and supply of organs, namely a shortage of 28. organs available for transplantation, which leads to a desperate search for them, 29. 30. Keeping in mind that commercialization of human organs is unethical, as the British 31. Transplantation Society also considers, 32. 33. Taking into consideration the fact of illegal removals and trafficking in human organs, 34. 35. Reminding about a huge death-rate among donators, 36. 37. Taking into account that bodies donated for medical research ate quite often sold for 38. personal profit, 39. 40. 1)Calls for Member States to cooperate with a view to combating illegal trade with 41. organs, 42. 43. 2)Resolves to prohibit the sale of organs from living persons (especially without their 44. permission), 45. 46. 3)Hopes to find out the circumstances driving people to sell their organs and to struggle 47. with them, 48. 49. 4)Calls upon member states to support making legal transplantation with safe surgical 50. treatment (in order not to harm the donor or infect the recipient), 51. 52. 5)Further proclaims to stop illegal trade with donated bodies , 53. 54. 7)Expresses its hope to stop transplant tourism, 55. 56. 8)Further resolves to increase the number of organs available for transplantation, namely: 57. a) The requirement that hospitals ask families of their desire to donate their loved one's 58. organs at the time of death, 59. 60. 9)Suggests to cooperate with economic committee in order to invest programs on cloning 61. organs, 62. 63. 10)Seeks to create more databases like a national UK database called the Organ Donation 64. Register where those individuals who wish to donate their organs after death can register.