A/HRC/4/31 page 12 wish to donate their organs after their death, in order to increase the availability of organs and tissues obtained post-mortem. Finally, the principle according to which the human body and its parts shall not, as such, give rise to financial gain is part of the legal acquis of the Council of Europe. This principle was enacted by article 21 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine and reiterated in its Additional Protocol on Transplantation of Organs and Tissues of Human Origin. 41. The Steering Committee on Bioethics (CDBI) of the European Health Committee (CDSP) also works on the trafficking of organs in the framework of the Council of Europe. Among its activities, the CDBI aims to harmonize the policies of member States as far as possible and to prepare additional protocols to the Convention on human rights and biomedicine on ethical and legal questions related to different topics, such as organ transplantation. In June 2005, the Committee published the responses of 40 member States to a questionnaire on organ trafficking. Asked about the existence of allegations that residents have been travelling abroad to illegally sell or procure organs, the Committee noted that five States (Albania, Croatia, Cyprus, France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) responded positively, without specifying if it involved children. Further asked about any official investigations having taken place in the past to ascertain allegations of organ trafficking, seven States responded positively (Albania, France, Georgia, Germany, the Russian Federation, Turkey and the United Kingdom) but only Albania mentioned a case involving a child. 42. Another regional scheme developed on the regional level is the Eurotransplant International Foundation. It is responsible for the mediation and allocation of organ donation procedures in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Croatia (a candidate country). In this international collaborative framework, the participants include all transplant hospitals, tissue-typing laboratories and hospitals where organ donations take place. 3. Other initiatives 43. On a non-governmental level, the Special Rapporteur would like to mention some of the initiatives undertaken. The work of the Bellagio Task Force on Securing Bodily Integrity for the Socially Disadvantaged in Transplant Surgery (1994-1996) was developed by Columbia University in order to produce a document on the use of organs for transplantation. The report that emerged from the Task Force 7 documented the many abuses that flow from the traffic in organs, including the sale of organs in countries such as India and the use of organs from executed prisoners, in countries such as China. It also analysed the complex sources of rumours of organ theft, which have not been documented but nevertheless point to the pervasive fears of a loss of bodily integrity by vulnerable populations. Its main recommendation is for the establishment of a permanent monitoring body through the creation of an international human donor surveillance committee that could firstly serve as a clearing-house for information on organ donation practices, and secondly, produce an annual review of declarations by international transplant and human rights groups on organ donation and examine the ethical issues in donation. 44. In a follow-up to the Bellagio Task Force, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Lawrence Cohen of the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, with support from the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) conducted ethnographic research in sites in Brazil,