Australia’s peak funding body for medical research, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) – held its biannual Research Excellence Awards this week. Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia, and ETAC’s Advisory Committee Chair, was awarded the prestigious Ethics Award. NHMRC’s Ethics Award recognises outstanding Australians for their contributions to…
This article was originally published by Jennifer Zeng for The Epoch Times and has been reposted here with permission. WASHINGTON—For the first time, persecuted faith groups in China and human rights organizations are forming a coalition to advance religious freedom in China, with the backing of the Trump administration and members of Congress. Sam Brownback,…
The International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC) calls on all governments, at the upcoming session of the Human Rights Council, February 25 to March 22, 2019 to include in their statements under agenda item 4 – Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention – a component urging China to account for…
November 15, 2018 The 2018 American Society of Criminology annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, featured a roundtable on “Human rights violations in organ procurement practice in China.” Matthew Robertson, China Studies Research Fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, and Peter Liu, Professor of Criminology at Monmouth University, gave presentations to a highly interested…
WE SHALL NOT BE COMPLICIT Declaration Against Organ Trafficking and Forced Organ Donation For Transplantation by Medical Professionals We are a Group of Medical Professionals and Medical School Educators In the last twenty some years, persistent and credible evidence of state-sponsored organ trafficking, forced/involuntary organ donation for transplantation, and even live organ harvesting have continued…
U.K. Organ Tourism to China By Andrew Moody People in the U.K. are travelling to Mainland China for organ transplants. China is a country known for its unethical sourcing of organs from executed prisoners and forced, non-consented organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience. There is currently no legislation stopping people from the UK travelling to…
NOTE: ETAC received written confirmation from Haifa Economic Corporation that Dong Jiahong would not attend the November 18-20 event. Einat Kalish-RotemMayor of HaifaHassan Shukri 14Haifa, ISRAEL 3310511 Or ShahafCEO of Haifa Economic CorporationPark MATAMHaifa, ISRAEL 3190500 Ziv TamirMessilaPark MATAMHaifa, ISRAEL 3190500 November 7, 2018 Re: Withdraw Invitation to Prof. Dong Jiahong for the “China-Israel Hi-tech…
On Tuesday 16th October, The UK Parliament held an event on organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. Hosted by Jim Shannon MP, and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion of Belief. This was the third event inside the last 12 months, listening to evidence from from Lord…
Today, MP Garnett Genuis held a press conference with Senator Salma Ataullahjan on Bill S-240, which has just been passed by the Senate with unanimous, multi-partisan consent. Bill S-240 creates new offences with regard to organ harvesting and organ trafficking abroad. This Bill will grant new protections to ethnic and religious minorities – such as those who…
The BBC’s World Service has released a two-part broadcast on ‘China’s Organ Transplants’. The program is well researched and recommended listening. Part 1 – Who To Believe? Part 2 – Tourism and Transparency
A Chinese human rights lawyer persecuted by authorities for his support of oppressed communities, including Christians and Falun Gong practitioners, was awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award on 29th August. The whereabouts of the lawyer, Gao Zhisheng, have not been publicly known since August, 2017, so the award was presented to his wife, Geng He,…
Public Statement by the International Society for Human Rights on Forced Organ Harvesting Practice in the People’s Republic of China The International Society for Human Rights condemns the systematic forced organ harvesting carried out by a secret network of state-run hospitals, prisons and re-education camps, police and the military in the People’s Republic of China.…
It is the greatest feeling in the world for a surgeon that has carried out his duty, performed a surgery, saved a life. My own feeling of greatness turned into a nightmare when I met Ethan Gutmann in a Committee room of Westminster ten years ago. That was when I confessed that, many years ago,…
Media Coverage: The Guardian, The Times, The Epoch Times, South China Morning Post, The Sun, The Catholic Universe BBC Radio (1:07), BBC TV, BMJ, The Epoch Times (Aug 22) OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER, OPPOSITION LEADER, THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HEALTH. Download the Open Letter here or read…
Ethan Gutmann July 2018 Three years ago, I spoke to the Senat about Chinese organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. What has occurred since then – both in terms of our investigation and the Chinese Communist Party’s response to it – is a remarkable story. Yet I am here today to tell you…
Recently published in Genocide Studies and Provention: An International Journal (GSP). GSP is the official journal of The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) Abstract. The article explores patterns of a cold genocide in the eradication campaign against Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that has been targeted for eradication by the Chinese…
The University of Alberta awarded David Matas an honorary doctor of laws degree on June 12, 2018. “An honorary degree is our learning community’s highest honour,” said University of Alberta Chancellor Douglas Stollery. Joining David in receiving an honorary degree from the University of Alberta this June are 13 exceptional individuals including David Suzuki, Canada’s…
China features in the report as a Tier 1 Country ‘- a Country of Particular Concern’. (View the full report here) RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT INCLUDE: Call on the Chinese government to cease labeling Falun Gong as a cult and lift the ban on its practice; Press for at the highest levels and work…
Missouri House of Representatives Resolution SCR 28 condemns the atrocity of forced organ extractions from Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in China. The resolution also “Call(s) upon the President of the United States to undertake a full and transparent investigation by the United States Department of State into organ transplant practices in…
The following is the Uyghur Human Rights Project‘s public statement supporting a push to cease forced organ harvesting in China — 2018 To Whom It May Concern: This letter is to support the work of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC). The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) believes the efforts of ETAC…