On the 4th November, 2020 the UK’s China Research Group hosted a webinar event focused on the China Tribunal. Sir Geoffrey Nice QC (China Tribunal Chair), Professor Martin Elliott and Hamid Sabi look at the findings of this year’s China Tribunal and evidence of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China.
Photo: Lord Alton of Liverpool Originally posted here: https://www.davidalton.net/2020/10/29/lord-hunts-all-party-amendment-on-forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-targeting-falun-gong-uighurs-political-and-religious-dissidents-debated-in-parliament-peers-demand-that-the-governmen/ Lord Hunt of Kings Heath 24: Clause 2, page 2, line 23, at end insert— “(o) the origin and treatment of human tissue used in the process of developing and manufacturing medicines.”Member’s explanatory statement This amendment adds the origin and treatment of human tissue, including organs, to…
To mark UK Anti-Slavery Day FREEDOM UNITED held a webinar with experts putting a spotlight on forced organ harvesting and organ trafficking – crimes that amount to underreported forms of modern slavery. Join the discussion with: Susie Hughes, Executive Director of International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China Tamara Barnett, Director of Human Trafficking…
(Revised Remarks for a panel October 26th, 2020 hosted by University of North Carolina Center for Bioethics and Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery) Recording of presentation available here: https://panopto-web.med.unc.edu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=4b81eef1-510c-4e56-b4d3-ac5c013c7b0a Medical ethics intersects with medical advocacy in various ways. One is advocacy to develop medical ethics locally. A second is advocacy for medical ethics in…
Building a Public Health Response to Organ Transplant Abuse in China Date: Oct 24 2020 | Policy Number: 202010 Abstract Organ transplants in China have been conducted on-demand for the past two decades despite the near-complete absence of organ donations for most of this period. While the Chinese government states that it stopped harvesting organs from executed…
‘Gandhi and Human Rights, the Modern Context’ by David Matas (Talk prepared for presentation to The India Centre, University of Winnipeg) I want to begin with a quote from a 1949 essay George Orwell wrote about Gandhi. He wrote: “there is reason to think that Gandhi, who after all was born in 1869, did not…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
FREEDOM UNITED PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FORCED ORGAN HARVESTING IN CHINA June 2020 Freedom United is the world’s largest anti-modern slavery community working to end modern slavery in all its forms. Freedom United condemns organ trafficking and forced organ harvesting, in China, and around the world. Freedom United supports the work carried out by the International…
South Korean Amendment of Internal Organs Transplant Act On the 6th March, 2020 the Korean Internal Organs Transplant Act was amended to include: Clause 27-2 국외에서 장기등을 이식받은 사람은 귀국 후 30일 이내에 이식받은 의료기관 등보건복지부령으로 정하는 사항이 기재된 서류를 국립장기이식관리기관에 제출하도록 함(안 제27조의2). A person who got overseas organ transplant shall submit the records…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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
