In a corner of central Tehran, there are walls that are no longer spaces for advertisements or public notices; they have become registers of a human catastrophe. Written on them are the phone numbers of people willing to sell their kidneys, parts of their livers, corneas, or bone marrow. These […]
Life
In most countries around the world, the buying and selling of human organs is prohibited for ethical, legal, and medical reasons. Iran, however, is one of the few countries where a legally established, state supervised system allows living unrelated donors to donate kidneys in exchange for financial compensation; an amount […]