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Organ trafficking Exposing the UK £4.45 brutal trade 05 in body parts 952014 770305 9 Guest editor’s letter Contents newint.org newint.org NEW INTERNATIONALIST Agenda Features THE NEW INTERNATIONALIST workers’ co-operative exists to Follow the bodies report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus Stories making the news 38 Beyond burnout attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and In the early days of the Organs Watch project, when I was first this month Post-traumatic stress disorder powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical looking into the rumours of ‘body snatching’ and ‘organ stealing’ 8 Ugandan LGBTI is an occupational hazard for changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the fight for among shantytown dwellers in northeast Brazil, my husband, then community down but activists on the frontline, says global justice. a clinical social worker at a large US paediatric hospital, returned not out Amy Hall. home one evening elated and deeply moved. He had witnessed 8 Roma discrimination The New Internationalist magazine was founded by Peter euters 40 10 reasons to be worried rife in Slovakia R and Lesley Adamson in 1970. Together with a range of other a paediatric transplant that had saved the life of a mortally ill about the trojan treaties publications it is published by New Internationalist Publications 9 PepsiCo says no inaldi / youngster. R Hazel Healy looks at two Ltd which is wholly owned by the New Internationalist Trust 9 Indians ask: how do 8 and co-operatively managed: monster US-led free-trade Michael was almost beside himself in sharing the miraculous event. Distracted, I kiss? Jessica Accounts: Frank Syratt. deals. Advertising: Michael York. I looked up from my writing desk and replied: ‘Really! Whose organ?’ My 9 Introducing Arseniy Yatsenyuk Administration: Anna Weston. husband’s anger at my ‘heartless’ question, something only an oddball 10 Blanket assault on Cambodian garment workers 388 Design: Alan Hughes, Andrew Kokotka, Ian Nixon, Juha Sorsa. AlamyTim Gainey/ Editorial (Magazine): Vanessa Baird, Dinyar Godrej, Jo Lateu, anthropologist would even think to ask, made me realize that, to the contrary, it 10 East-West strain over Ukraine Lydia James, Hazel Healy, Jamie Kelsey-Fry. was a question that had to be asked. 11 Keeping UKIP out of EU Editorial (Publications): Chris Brazier. My naïve question and my equally naïve method – ‘follow the bodies!’ – 11 Abled people say Mail Order: Bev Dawes, James Rowland. Mixed media Marketing (Magazine): Amanda Synnott, Rob Norman. brought me to police morgues, hospital mortuaries, medical-legal institutes, PLUS: Scratchy Lines by cartoonist Simon Kneebone and 34 Film reviews North American Publisher: Ian McKelvie. intensive care units, dialysis units, blood labs and organ banks all over the world. Reasons to be cheerful. We Are the Best! directed by Lukas Moodysson; An Episode Marketing (Publications): Dan Raymond-Barker, Jude Crozier. Production: Fran Harvey. I traced the missing link – the ‘blood diamond’ of the organ trafficking world in the Life of an Iron Picker, directed by Danis Tanović. Web and IT: Charlie Harvey, Pete Stewart. – the fresh kidneys, which came across borders safely packaged in their warm, The Big Story – Organ tra!cking 35 Music reviews SUBSCRIPTIONS living containers. I met the ‘kidney mules’, recruited by brokers in slums, refugee Underwater Dub by Sly and Robbie; MetaL MetaL by Metá Website: www.newint.org/subscribe camps and mental institutions, and the outlaw surgeons and traffickers behind Metá. Email: [email protected] Phone: +44 (0) 1604 251 046 the illegal flow of human traffic. This edition of New Internationalist reveals 36 Book reviews Phone (from Ireland): CallSave 1850 924 331 the damage wreaked by the criminal organ trade, and looks at what it might take The Rise and Fall of Al-Qaeda by Fawaz A Gerges; Fax: +44 (0)1604 251031 Post: New Internationalist, to combat it. A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros; Charlie Chaplin McGowan House, 10 Waterside Way, Elsewhere in the magazine, Amy Hall meets the activists suffering from post- by Peter Ackroyd; and The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld. Northampton NN4 7XD, UK. traumatic stress disorder, and the Argument on banning religious methods of PLUS: Also out there… ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION PRICES slaughter goes behind the clamour of the proposed Danish ban. UK: £39.85; Institutions £70. Ireland: €47 Rest of World: Individuals: £44.85/€58/ US$68/ZAR 300. Opinion Institutions £90. 30 Should halal and kosher methods of slaughter be Despatch by air only. banned? Subscribers in Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES should contact their local subscriptions office whose addresses Viva! campaigner Tony Wardle and social commentator can be found at www.newint.org/about/contact/ Mohammed Ansar go head to head. PLUS: Open Window with guest cartoonist Makhmud Eshonkulov. UK OFFICE This month’s contributors include: New Internationalist, Amy Hall is a journalist and Alice Cuddy is a journalist 33 Mark Engler 55 Rectory Road, Oxford OX4 1BW. editor based in Brighton. who has reported from the Tel: +44 (0)1865 811400 Cadillac’s electric dream is a nightmare. She is the News Editor of Middle East and southeast Asia. Fax: +44 (0)1865 793152 oque/AP/Press Association Images 12 R Email: [email protected] the Transition Free Press Currently based in Cambodia, 43 Chris Coltrane newspaper, which grew out of she works as a reporter for the Pat Carbon stomp. Advertising (magazine & web): Michael York 01865 811420 the Transition movement, and Phnom Penh Post. 12 Perpetual scars PLUS: Polyp’s Big Bad World cartoon. [email protected] also works as a freelance A forensic examination of the persistent problem of tra$cking Contract enquiries: [email protected] journalist. Web queries: [email protected] vulnerable people for their organs, and what it would take to Permissions & general enquiries: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi is a Victor Sonkin is an academic, stamp it out, by Nancy Scheper-Hughes. Regulars Anna Weston 01865 811401 Zimbabwean photographer journalist and translator working 6 Letters [email protected] who has exhibited in Mali, the in Moscow. His guidebook to PLUS: Stories and opinions from those with personal Netherlands, Germany and Ancient Rome recently won experience of the trade. Legal protection for whistleblowers and praise for basic income. NEWS TRADE DISTRIBUTOR: COMAG Specialist Division, South Africa. He won the CNN Russia's most prestigious award 7 Letter from Bangui Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex African Photographer of the for non-!ction. UB7 7QX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1895 433800. Fax: +44 (0)1895 433801. 23 The Medicus a"air Year award in 2002. Ruby Diamonde visits the Ba-aka forest people to !nd out A report from Kosovo on the skullduggery of an international about the impact of missionaries. The New Internationalist is published monthly except that the Alexander Krasnov Jan/Feb and July/Aug issues are combined. gang of medical criminals and the tortuous road to bring them to justice. By Selvije Bajrami. 28 Country Pro#le: The Philippines Coming next month 42 Worldbeater sustainability). The languages we 25 A living donor Bill of Rights Paranoid, arrogant, moralistic and intolerant: step forward, Speaking out for a speak shape who we are and Principles for protection. how we see the world, and are Yahya Jammeh. multilingual world a conduit for and repository of 44 Southern Exposure facebook.com/newint The world’s 7,000 languages are facing a decline our history, culture, traditions 26 Dear Potential Organ Buyer... more rapid than, and potentially as damaging as, the and faith. Their power and If you think the trade on human organs just needs proper Tsvangirayi Mukwashi o&ers an unusual view of @newint planet’s endangered species. With the last speakers of importance are re"ected regulation, read Nancy Scheper Hughes’ exploration of the Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe. up to half of the world’s languages already alive today, in the pains taken by repressive options. It helps us occasionally to allow carefully screened linguists fear that within two centuries we could all be and colonizing regimes over the 45 Puzzle Page organizations to mail our subscribers. If you do not wish to speaking one global tongue. centuries to silence them. PLUS: Marc Roberts’ Only Planet cartoon. receive their material please write to your subscription office. Yet language matters more than you might The decline in the world’s languages must 46 And Finally © New Internationalist Publications Ltd. 2014 think: at the micro level (being a polyglot is good be reversed, and we all have a responsibility to join Front cover: Supertrooper / Depositphotos ISSN 0305-9529 for the brain!) and at the macro level (the fate the !ght. Next month’s New Internationalist Magazine designed by Alan Hughes and Juha Sorsa. Filmmaker and director Uri Fruchtmann tells Jo Lateu why ISO accreditation 9001-2008 of our languages is inextricably linked to global issues a call to arms – and tongues. All monetary values are expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted. he supports activists who expose wrongdoing through video. 2 NEW IN TERNATI O NALI S T MAY 2014 NEW INTERNATI O NALIST MAY 2014 3 ORGAN TRAFFICKING The Big Story Men from Baseco, a slum in the port area of Manila, the Philippines, show their scars from kidney sales in a photograph from 1999.