Groups persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party held a rally at Sydney Town Hall Feb 1, including members and supporters of Falun Gong, Uyghurs, and the Church of Almighty God. Professor Paul Macneill from ETAC’s Australian committee spoke about the forced removal of organs from prisoners in China. Read his full speech below. My…
The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) – the peak body for medical specialists in Australia and New Zealand – issued a statement condemning trafficking in organs, including organ removal without valid consent or authorisation, or any collaboration with transplant doctors involved in trafficking organs from prisoners and ethnic or religious minorities. Read the full…
Prestigious science journal Nature listed transplant ethicist Wendy Rogers as one of “10 people who mattered in science in 2019”. Wendy is professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia, and ETAC’s Advisory Committee Chair. Her research on ethical failures in organ transplants studies from China was ground breaking and resulted in two journals retracting…
Joint Position Statement – Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) Section 32 Trading in Tissue in the Modern Slavery Act 2018 (NSW) Background This is a joint position statement representing the collective views of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) and the International Coalition to…
GUEST SPEAKERS & TOPICS: THE CHINA TRIBUNAL – SUSIE HUGHES A UNITED NATIONS ISSUE – ELIZABETH EVATT AC A MODERN SLAVERY ISSUE – CAROLYN KITTO A LEGAL ISSUE, COMPLICITY – DR DAVID MATAS A BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE – DR. MARTIJN BOERSMA AN ETHICAL ISSUE – PROF WENDY ROGERS A MEDICAL ISSUE –…
Representatives from ETAC spoke at the World Uyghur Congress conference at the European Parliament 7-10 Dec 2019 on the international effort to combat organ harvesting. Topics included the work of ETAC, a framework and roadmap for Uyghurs to take action on organ harvesting, and how to engage within legal frameworks and international forums. The following…
Speech by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Chair of the China Tribunal, at the UN Human Rights Council Side Event. September, 2019.
Organ Transplant Abuse in China: International Standards and Remedies (Paper presented to the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 23, 2019) by David Matas Introduction The Communist Party of China has been killing prisoners of conscience since the early 2000s in the tens of thousands…
A Medical Issue (Remarks prepared for a panel on organ transplants and crimes against humanity in China, November 18, 2019, Sydney, Australia) Maria A. Fiatarone Singh, MD, FRACP Approximately 2500 years ago, the words from Epidemics, part of the Hippocratic Corpus were written: “The physician must … have two special objects in view with regard to disease,…
Complicity (Remarks prepared for a panel on organ transplants and crimes against humanity in China, November 18, 2019, Sydney, Australia) by David Matas I have been asked to address three questions on complicity: What is complicity? What are some scenarios where persons in Australia could be found complicit in organ transplant abuse in China? What…
Forensic Analysis of Organ Donation Data Casts Disturbing Light on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Crimes Today, the publication of the first ever scientific analysis of China’s official organ donation data has found that China is guilty of the “systematic falsification and manipulation of official organ transplant datasets.” The findings of the analysis are the latest…
Organ Sourcing in China: The Official Version, Part II (Remarks prepared for delivery to a seminar in the UK Parliament September 11, 2019) I gave a talk to a symposium in Bern, Switzerland in April 2015 where I went through chronologically with commentary the various official versions of organ sourcing in China. More than four…
Zumuret Dawut testified that she was given a forced x-ray of internal organs, and was forced to have blood tests whilst in detention. Two videos available here: Dropbox Link Radio Free Asia Interview with Dawut: Interview: ‘As Soon as I Was Taken Inside, I Knew it Was a Prison’
Press Release Issued by the British Medical Association – June 18, 2019 – READ RELEASE Responding to the publication of the final judgment of the Independent Tribunal into Forced Organ Harvesting from Prisoners of Conscience in China (the China Tribunal),1 Dr John Chisholm, BMA medical ethics committee chair, said: “We are gravely concerned by the judgment delivered…
The UK’s All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery has released a position statement on the state sanctioned organ trafficking of prisoners in China. Full Statement below: The UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery was concerned to read The China Tribunal’s report, chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice…
Side Event at the UN Human Rights Council – 42nd Session – September, 2019 Hosted by Ingenieurs du Monde. TOPIC – China Tribunal Speakers: CHINA TRIBUNAL – Sir Geoffrey Nice QC (China Tribunal Chair) and Hamid Sabi (Counsel to the Tribunal) ETAC – Susie Hughes, Executive Director, International Coalition To End Transplant Abuse In China…
Declarations, the human rights podcast based out of the University of Cambridge has featured David Matas on a recent episode entitled ‘Organ Harvesting and Trafficking of Chinese Minorities’. Declarations Podcast
Canadian legislation on organ trafficking and mandatory reporting (Remarks prepared to delivery to the Canadian Transplant Summit Kidney Working Group, Banff, Alberta, October 16, 2019) by David Matas I am an international human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. I approach the issue of organ transplant abuse with a particular focus. In 2006, former Canadian cabinet…
“Questions first arose over China’s transplant system when the numbers of transplants rose dramatically after 2000. Transplant capacity rapidly increased; new infrastructure was built and staff were trained. Hospital websites offered livers, hearts and kidneys available in a matter of days or weeks, for a price. Foreigners were encouraged to come to China to…
Combating Organ Transplant Abuse in China: a Nordic Action Plan by David Matas In remarks I delivered to public seminars in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 17, 2019, and Helsinki, Finland, on September 18, 2019 and to a Parliamentary briefing in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 19, 2019, I presented for each country an action plan to…