59 Organisations Urge Biden to Prioritise Human Rights When Meeting Xi Jinping ETAC has joined 58 organisations in signing a letter to U.S. President Biden, urging priority in his discussions with Chinese leader Xi Jingping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit about the concerning lack of concrete human rights improvements. Click HERE to…
Photo: Emily Chastain Professor Irwin Cotler Receives Prestigious Lantos Human Rights Prize Professor Irwin Cotler is a member of the ETAC International Advisory Committee. ETAC congratulates Professor Cotler on this prestigious award and we thank him for his ongoing support. October 2023: Professor Irwin Cotler has been honoured with the 2023 Lantos Foundation Human…
‘Do No Harm’ Presented at Human Trafficking Conference By Eleanor Stephenson (Legal and Communications Manager) This video was hosted by the International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference. Since 2004, The International Human Trafficking and Social Justice Conference has been bringing together researchers, practitioners, and individuals with lived experience in an effort to…
Genocide in the Media: Reporting Variations (Remarks prepared for an International Academic Forum conference on arts, media and culture, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2023) By David Matas Click HERE to view the virtual presentation on the International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Vimeo channel. Mass killings of innocents based on their identity characteristics are sometimes well…
Uncovering Organ Harvesting in China – and the Chilling Implications of Mass DNA Testing in Tibet A Conversation with Ethan Gutmann – Kate Saunders, the Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives (FNVA). SCROLL DOWN TO VIDEO US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on May 9: “We’re concerned by reports of the spread of mass DNA…
Under the Radar: U.S. Interactions with China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Industry by Sharon Howard PhD DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE FULL REPORT HERE The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) has published a report on US medical interactions with Chinese transplant institutions. The purpose of the investigation, authored by Sharon…
AAPS Position Statement on Forced Organ Harvesting Click HERE to read the statement on the AAPS website. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a national organization of physicians and surgeons in all specialties, founded in 1943, issues the following statement: There is overwhelming evidence that by the authority of the Chinese Communist…
Voices in Bioethics Podcast: Human Rights with Susie Hughes (Co-Founder and Executive Director of ETAC) Susie Hughes joins Anne Zimmerman to discuss forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. Forced organ harvesting refers to the state-sponsored killing of prisoners of conscience in China to supply organs for transplantation. Many victims are Falun…
US Republican Reps Urge Blinken: Act Against the CCP’s Organ Harvesting Jun 29 2023: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Neal Dunn, M.D. (Florida-02) and Congresswoman Michelle Steel (California-45) has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing deep concern regarding the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting of wrongfully detained minorities—including Falun…
ETAC Australia Commends the Australian Government for Modern Slavery Act Recommendation ETAC Australia commends the Australian Government for accepting a recommendation made in our submission on the statutory review of the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (Cth) ETAC’s submission recommended at paragraph 69 that the Modern Slavery Guidance document “be amended to include organ trafficking as…
Texas Passes New Law to Stop Health Benefit Plan Coverage of Organ Transplant in China Texas SB1040 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature Click HERE to read the Bill. The Texas state legislature has passed a bipartisan bill relating to health benefit plan coverage of a transplant of an organ that originated from or…
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation 2023: Forced Organ Procurement in China 19 – 22 April, Denver USA: The 43rd International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions took place this year, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of ISHLT while encouraging cross-collaboration among its Professional Communities. The program showcases…
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…