Author Archives: ETAC NEWS

NSW Premier urged to end delay on Modern Slavery Act – 117 organisations sign

An unprecedented consortium of more than 117 organisations, academics, lawyers, community and faith leaders came together to urge the NSW Premier to end delay and bring the state’s historic Modern Slavery Act into force by 1 January 2021, two and a half years after it was passed unanimously by both houses of parliament in June…

Physic numbing: Forced Organ Harvesting and Torture in China by Andrew Quist

The Arithmetic of Compassion website raises awareness of psychological obstacles to compassion, including psychic numbing, pseudoinefficacy, and the prominence effect. “A famous saying goes, “One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” Due to psychic numbing, our sympathy for suffering and loss declines precipitously when we are presented with increasing numbers of…

Organ Harvesting Poster Competition Begins (Taiwan International Organ Transplant Care Association)

The Taiwan International Organ Transplant Care Association (TIOTCA) are running a poster competition for artists all over the world. Introductory competition information below. For more information and to submit a poster please visit: https://posteraward.organcare.org/Lang/en https://posteraward.organcare.org/Lang/en/Regulations/Regulations Event Objective Authors and artists at different era have used their expertise to record the great changes of times. From…

Belgium Senate passes resolution condemning organ harvesting in China

On the 12th May, 2020, the Belgian Senate passed a resolution condemning the continuing practice of forcibly removing organs from prisoners of conscience in the People’s Republic of China, particularly from Falun Gong supporters and Uighurs. Please find below the English translation of the text adopted and the introductory speech. Original text can be found…

Decision Research, USA, issues Public Statement on Transplant Abuse in China

“As detailed in the findings by the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China, there is evidence that the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in forced organ harvesting for 20 years and continues to this day. The torture, killing, and forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs are…

WATCH – China at a Crossroads – Standing up for Human Rights During the Coronavirus Pandemic

This event was hosted and co-sponsored by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, China Digital Times, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, Canada Tibet Committee, International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, the Federation for a Democratic…

Deep Dive Videos: Interviews with Experts on Forced Organ Harvesting

Swoop Films’ DEEP DIVE with Pavel Porubiak, Senior Analyst from the Institute to Research the Crimes of Communism (IRCC) discusses Western corporations and governments complicity in the Chinese regime’s killing and exploitation of its own citizens.   Swoop Films’ DEEP DIVE with investigative journalist and author, Ethan Gutmann, discusses his ongoing research into the Chinese…

Report & Declaration: Asia Symposium on Combatting Organ Trafficking & Transplant Tourism, Japan

On November 20th, 2019 an Asian symposium was held in Tokyo, Japan.  A joint statement named the Declaration of Tokyo on Organ Transplant Abuse in China was released at the conclusion of the event.  Read the declaration below, and view the presentations in their report. https://www.organcare.org.tw/Docs/結論手冊_防制器官販運及器官移植旅遊亞洲研討會.pdf Declaration of Tokyo on organ transplant abuse in China…

The CBC, the CCP and COVID-19

by David Matas & David Kilgour (first featured in the Winnipeg Sun – 11 May 2020) Research we have done since 2006 on the mass killing in China of prisoners of conscience for their organs has led us inevitably to learn about other more general subjects. The coronavirus disease of 2019 caught the world by surprise. But,…

VOC Webinar – Understanding China: Searching for the Disappeared

Episode 1 – with Ethan Gutmann Watch the first of a series of informative webinars by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. The “Understanding China” online event series will help you understand the nature of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and key issues in U.S.-China relations. Join VOC for virtual…

Covid-19 & Forced Organ Harvesting Parallels – Polish TV interview with David Matas

Public statement by Canadians in Support of Refugees in Dire Need (CSRDN) condemns forced organ harvesting in China

Today CSRDN issued the following public statement: “Canadians in Support of Refugees in Dire Need (CSRDN) condemns forced organ harvesting and demands the immediate release of all prisoners of conscience including the Falong Gong and Uyghur people held in concentration camps against their will.” CSRDN website – www.csrdn.org

China: New CSW Report Highlights Vulnerable Religious Communities

A new report by CSW on the situation of oppressed religious communities in China is released today amid concerns that some of these groups are especially vulnerable to the spread of the coronavirus and its wider impact on freedoms in China. The report, entitled ‘Repressed, Removed, Re-Educated: The stranglehold on religious life in China,’ contends…

University of Toronto Student Event

On March 10,2020 University of Toronto students hosted a well-attended event on the mass incarceration of targeted populations in China–notably Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners. The program also featured how these persecuted minorities are being blood and tissue typed and their organs harvested without consent. A shortened version of the award winning movie “Hard to Believe”…

Video & Report: Policy Forum on Capitol Hill, Washington DC

This policy forum was dedicated to the release of the latest VOC report on extrajudicial killing for the harvesting of organs by the Chinese Communist Party. The China Tribunal Judgment was also featured at the event. VOC Report The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) has conducted a detailed examination of the allegations of extrajudicial…

Belgium: PBA Nursing students watch ‘Hard to Believe’

UC Leuven-Limburg in Leuven, Belgium, hosted a screening of the award-winning documentary, Hard To Believe. This event was part of their ‘International week 2019’. The audience consisted of PBA Nursing students, lecturers and their international colleagues. Hard To Believe, produced by Swoop Films, is a documentary that examines the issue of forced live organ harvesting…

Prof Paul Macneill – Communities Oppressed by the CCP Speak Out in Sydney, Australia

Groups persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party held a rally at Sydney Town Hall Feb 1, including members and supporters of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and the Church of Almighty God. Professor Paul Macneill from ETAC’s Australian committee spoke about the forced removal of organs from prisoners in China. Read his full speech below.   My…

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) issue statement on organ trafficking

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) – the peak body for medical specialists in Australia and New Zealand – issued a statement condemning trafficking in organs, including organ removal without valid consent or authorisation, or any collaboration with transplant doctors involved in trafficking organs from prisoners and ethnic or religious minorities. Read the full…