Lord David Alton

Lord Hunt’s All Party Amendment on Forced Organ Harvesting in China – Targeting Falun Gong, Uighurs, Political and Religious Dissidents – Debated In Parliament. Peers Demand That The Government Acts

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…

Stop forced organ harvesting webinar

UK Anti-Slavery Day Webinar: Tackling Forced Organ Harvesting & Organ Trafficking

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…

David Matas

Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience: the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics by David Matas

(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…

Policy: Building a Public Health Response to Organ Transplant Abuse in China

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…

Mahatma Ghandi

‘Gandhi and Human Rights, the Modern Context’ by David Matas (Talk prepared for presentation to The India Centre, University of Winnipeg)

‘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…

The Arithmetic of Compassion

Psychic Numbing: Forced Organ Harvesting and Torture in China by Andrew Quist

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…

Organ Harvesting Poster Competition Begins (Taiwan International Organ Transplant Care Association)

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…

Freedom United issues public statement on forced organ harvesting in China

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 Korea Amends Internal Organs Transplant Act

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…

WATCH – China at a Crossroads – Standing up for Human Rights During the Coronavirus Pandemic

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…

Deep Dive Swoop Films

Deep Dive Videos: Interviews with Experts on Forced Organ Harvesting

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…

Report & Declaration: Asia Symposium on Combatting Organ Trafficking & Transplant Tourism, Japan

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…

Covid-19

The CBC, the CCP and COVID-19

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,…

Public statement by Canadians in Support of Refugees in Dire Need (CSRDN) condemns forced organ harvesting in China

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