Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2026 20 August 2026: Senator Dean Smith (Western Australia) has introduced the “Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure) Bill 2026” in the Australian Senate. This Bill strengthens Australia’s efforts to combat illegal and unethical organ harvesting. It is substantially the same as the bill…
UK Home Office Country Policy Note on Falun Gong – Includes Section on Forced Organ Harvesting November 2025: The UK Home Office released its Country Policy and Information Note on Falun Gong, the guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration caseworkers when determining asylum and human rights claims. The executive summary states that detained…
David Matas: World Association for Medical Law Congress – August 2026 Preventing and remedying complicity in organ transplant abuse abroad (Text of a poster presentation to the World Association for Medical Law Congress 2026, Antwerp, Belgium, August 5th to 7th) Click HERE for the full text and footnotes/citations Excerpt below of the…
David Matas: London Parliamentary Seminar, International Academic Forum European Conference on Education, Consilium Institute Forum, and The Liver Week – June and July 2026 Improving UK legislation on forced organ harvesting Parliamentary Seminar, London, UK, July 8, 2026 Evaluation of Institution Responses to Student Applications from Abroad for Training Which Could Be Used to…
Wolters Kluwer Retracts Nine Chinese Transplant Papers Publisher Wolters Kluwer has retracted nine publications on Chinese transplant research from the journal Liver Transplantation, Hepatology, and Transplantation upon identification of potential ethical breaches flagged by a 2019 scoping review by Rogers et al. in BMJ Open “Compliance with ethical standards in the reporting of donor…
Elsevier Becomes a Global Leader by Issuing Policy Change on Organ Transplantation Research Elsevier has updated the author guidelines for several of its transplant journals to explicitly reference “prisoners of conscience” and the Global Rights Compliance (GRC) Advisory on transplantation research, making Elsevier the first major publisher to formally address the issue in its…
MEDIA RELEASE: Human Rights Organisations Welcome Senate Committee Advancement of S.4009, the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act Washington, D.C., 24th June, 2026 — The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) welcome the successful advancement of S.4009, the…
Image: CECC website CECC Hearing: A Market Built on Victims: Stopping Illegal Organ Trafficking in China and Beyond May 14, 2026: The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), created by Congress with legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, held a hearing to showcase three new…
Image: Human Tissue Authority, Wikimedia Commons Attribution UK Releases First Operational Data Under New Mandatory Overseas Transplant Reporting Laws The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) has released the first operational data under the UK’s mandatory overseas transplant reporting regime, introduced in April 2024 following amendments made through the Health and Care Act 2022. On 1…
Joint Letter Urges US Senators to Support Bipartisan Bill: Falun Gong and Victims of FOH Protection Act Click to view the full letter addressed to US Senators. Dear Senators, The undersigned civil society groups and human rights organizations urge you to act on S 4009 the Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection…
ETAC Australia: Submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission (Review of Human Tissue Laws) 2025 The Australian Law Reform Commission is conducting a Review of Human Tissue Laws to examine matters related to: Donation, retrieval and transplant of human cells, tissues and organs Consent arrangements Regulation of ‘schools of anatomy’ and donation for education…
US CECC 2024 Annual Report Strengthens Call to End Forced Organ Harvesting December 2024: The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) published its 2024 Annual Report, elevating forced organ harvesting as a priority issue, referencing the Commission’s March 2024 hearing “Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done?” and including detailed recommendations for…