Do No Harm: Business and Human Rights in Transplantation Medicine Click HERE for further details and to watch the event. Organ trafficking, forced organ harvesting, and unethical organ transplantation are global issues. Join us for a presentation by Wayne Jordash KC followed by a panel discussion where we will explore the risks of international…
FBI Arrests CCP Agents Targeting Falun Gong, Chinese Dissidents Previously published on Faluninfo.net. Click HERE to read the full article and HERE for the FBI report. April 17, 2023 – “Harry” Lu Jianwang, 61, qnd Chen Jinping, 59, have been arrested by the FBI and charged for operating an undeclared police station in…
Forced Organ Harvesting: Expanding the Dead Donor Rule by Anne Zimmerman When such an organ harvesting is not just nonconsensual, but performed in a way that causes a death or uses the pretense of brain death without meeting the criteria, it also violates the dead donor rule. The dead donor rule is both ethical…
United States Bill to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Passed in the House Click HERE for the latest press release. This is an update to the previous release. Washington, March 27th, 2023: The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed (413-2) legislation—HR 1154—authored by Rep. Chris Smith, Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, to combat…
Human Organ Supply: Report on Ethical Considerations and Breaches in Organ Harvesting Practices Click HERE for the full report. March 22, 2023: The New York City Bar Association has published a report on organ harvesting considerations, including forced organ harvesting in China and other ethical issues with organ donation. The report acknowledges the…
Cotton, Coons, Colleagues Introduce Bill in US Senate to Hold China Accountable for Forced Organ Harvesting Read the Press Release HERE and the Bill HERE March 09, 2023: Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) today introduced the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act to combat the unethical and criminal practice of…
Organ Transplant in Islam Aliya Khan MD, Ali Iqbal MD and Hamid Slimi PhD December 2022: A paper has been published in the Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association, discussing organ transplantation and its benefits as well as its permissibility in the Islamic faith. The authors noted that due to advances in science, technology,…
ETAC welcomes the progress of the bipartisan Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Bill in the United States. Below is the press release issued by Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) about the bill. The latest version of this release may be viewed at: https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=411235 WASHINGTON—Bipartisan legislation authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on…
The China Nexus: Thirty Years In and Around the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyranny A new book has been published exploring the history, politics and ideology of the China’s authoritarian regime, the human rights abuses occurring in China and the international response to such practices. It is a must read for anyone wishing to understand…
The Communist Chinese Party’s Weaponizing of Organ Genocide Against the Unwanted (Remarks prepared for a webinar hosted by the Committee for the Present Danger: China January 5, 2023) by David Matas Click HERE to watch the webinar on the Committee for the Present Danger: China website. The evidence of the mass killing of…
Australia, New Zealand and Transplant Abuse in China (Revised remarks prepared for a Parliamentary briefing in Canberra, November 23, 2022, and Adelaide, South Australia November 29, 2022 and a public forum in Auckland, New Zealand, December 1, 2022) by David Matas 21 December 2022 I. Introduction One reason, though far from the only,…
Organ Transplant Abuse in China and Legal Responses (Remarks prepared for delivery to the World Congress for Medical Law, Gold Coast, Australia, December 7th, 2022) by David Matas The Congress theme for the papers presented today is medicine and technology. The technology I wish to address is the technology of organ transplantation. The…
Acting Against Transplant Abuse in China (Remarks prepared for a Parliamentary briefing Canberra, Australia November 23, 2022) by David Matas Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak to you today about transplant abuse in China. I have been working on this issue now for more than sixteen years, and have met before…
Canadian Bill S-223 Combatting Organ Trafficking Unanimously Passes into Law An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (trafficking in human organs) has now passed into law. This enactment amends the Criminal Code to create new offences in relation to trafficking in human organs. It also amends the…
Jiang Zemin – Leader of the Mass Killing of Innocents by David Matas Originally published in the Epoch Times – https://www.theepochtimes.com/jiang-zemin-leader-in-the-mass-killing-of-innocents_4896232.html The death of Jiang Zemin, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), reminds us of the instrumental role he played in the mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs. That mass killing wouldn’t…
Former Chinese Communist Party Leader Jiang Zemin Who First Issued the Order to Harvest Organs from Falun Gong Practitioners, Dies Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who is responsible for launching the brutal persecution against people who practice Falun Gong (Buddhist Qigong), has died. He was 96. Jiang Zemin, was the communist regime’s top leader from…
Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) 2022 Annual Report Includes Forced Organ Harvesting in China November 14th 2022 (WASHINGTON, DC): U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and U.S. Representative James P. McGovern (D-MA), Chair and Cochair of the bipartisan and bicameral CECC, issued the Commission’s 2022 Annual Report on human rights conditions and rule of law developments…
Innovation and Value: Organ Transplant Abuse in China (Remarks prepared for an International Academic Forum conference on arts, media and culture, Kyoto, Japan, October 20, 2022) By David Matas This paper is intended as a contribution to the International Academic Forum Innovation and Value Initiative. The approach of the Initiative, as described on the…
Perspective Article published in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Transplant Ethics and Forced Organ Harvesting Click HERE to read the full article In this Perspective article, the authors comment on the recent statement from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) regarding transplant ethics. The article concludes that this…
The Global Accountability Network’s Pacific Rim Accountability Project have just released an extensive white paper on the Uyghur situation in China. Titled A Multi-Generational Effort to Eliminate the Uyghurs: An Ongoing Genocide the paper draws attention to crimes committed against the Uyghur population in Xinjiang/East Turkestan, including forced organ harvesting. View and download the full…