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Activity related to the organ trade around the world

Also see the photographic essay by Nancy Scheper-Hughes

France

• Compensated Gifting-Softer forms of (living) organ sales
  
  A 16 year old from the Persian Gulf donates a kidney to a Dutch woman in exchange for payment. Also, after the death of their son, a couple received a bill for post-mortem surgical removal of his eyes, done without their authorization. (T. Patel. "France's troubled transplant trade," New Scientist, July 3, 1993, pp 12-13).