Scheper-Hughes has conducted anthropological fieldwork in Northeast Brazil, Argentina, Israel, South Africa, Moldova, the Philippines and the U.S. As founding director of Organs Watch, she is a consultant on human trafficking for organs for the E.U., Interpol, U.N. Office on Human Trafficking and the Vatican. She has testified (pro bono) in several prosecutions of human traffickers. She was a witness to the organ trade that brought Israeli kidney patients from Israel, Europe and New York City to Durban, South Africa and ‘kidney sellers’ from impoverished communities in Recife. In her early investigations of an international ring of brokers and their living organ sellers based in New York, New Jersey and Israel led to a number of arrests by the FBI.