FREEDOM UNITED PETITION – Help Us Reach 50,000 Freedom United, the Human Trafficking Foundation and ETAC, are calling for countries around the globe to step up and tackle the often-overlooked crimes of human trafficking for the purpose of organ removal, and organ trafficking. Help us reach 50,000 by clicking on the link below and signing.…
DetailsImage: “Holocaust Memorial” by yigitozan is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Public Letter to UK Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary – Support for Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24 15 April 2024: A public letter was sent to the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and Foreign Secretary, Lord David Cameron, in respect of the Genocide Determination Bill 2023-24…
DetailsIdaho Passes Bill Targeting Insurance Coverage of Organ Transplants from China The state of Idaho has passed a bill aiming to discourage residents from seeking organ transplants in China, following similar legislation already passed in Texas and Utah. The bill (HO670) seeks to prohibit health insurers from covering an organ transplant or post-transplant…
DetailsHearing of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China: Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done? Written Testimony of Anne Zimmerman (1) March 20, 2024 See full testimony HERE Thank you for holding today’s hearing to discuss forced organ harvesting. I am pleased to contribute testimony concerning not just state-sanctioned forced organ…
DetailsImage: Wikimedia Commons Utah Passes Bill Restricting Insurance Coverage of Organ Transplants from China MARCH 2024: The state of Utah has signed into law a bill (S.B. 262) restricting insurance coverage of transplant surgery done in China. The bill will come into effect on May 1, 2024. Excerpt from the bill below: An…
DetailsImage: CECC website CECC Hearing: Stopping the Crime of Organ Harvesting—What More Must Be Done? March 20, 2024: The Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), created by Congress with legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, held a hearing to “evaluate the evidence of organ harvesting…
DetailsImage: Screenshot via ESOT website Oxford University Held Training Sessions Attended by Chinese Doctors Accused of Harvesting Organs A Telegraph investigation by senior journalist Henry Bodkin exposes concerns over an Oxford University transplant training program. Excerpts below. Access the full article HERE Excerpts from the article: “Oxford University organised training programmes attended…
DetailsForced Organ Harvesting in China: The Facts and the Law (Remarks prepared for presentation to two fora at Harvard University, one at the East Asia Library March 7th, 2024 and a second at the Medical School March 8th) By David Matas I am a lawyer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in private practice. My clients…
DetailsLetter to European Embassies: In Support of CSDDD ETAC joins 83 organisations in signing an open letter to European embassies highlighting the importance of a strong Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), urging the respective governments to vote in favour of it before the upcoming European Union elections. The letter below: Ambassador…
DetailsETAC Australia: Submission to the Inquiry into the Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023 The Migration Amendment (Overseas Organ Transplant Disclosure and Other Measures) Bill 2023 seeks to “better inform the Commonwealth of Australia about persons entering Australia who have received an organ transplant and to enable certain relevant…
DetailsPhoto: Rushan Abbas (Executive Director of Campaign for Uyghurs) delivering a testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Congressional-Executive Commission on China. Screenshot via CECC YouTube video US Govt. CECC Hearing: The PRC’s Universal Periodic Review and the Real State of Human Rights in China February 1st, 2024: The Congressional-Executive Commision (CECC)…
DetailsPhoto: IRF Summit 2024 / Screenshot via NTD House Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Out Against China’s Organ Harvesting From The Epoch Times: WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Jan. 31 highlighted concerns about the Chinese Communist Party’s forced organ harvesting of faith adherents, identifying the regime as among “some of the most repressive in…
DetailsUniversal Periodic Review and China by David Matas 27 January 2024 The human rights record of China came under scrutiny at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on the morning of January 23, 2024. The occasion was the Universal Periodic Review, a review that the Council engages periodically of every United Nations…
DetailsPhoto: Wikimedia Commons Evidence to UN UPR Geneva on China’s Repression by Edward McMillan-Scott 22 January 2024 I was a Member of the European Parliament from the UK 1984- 2014: for the last ten years I was a Vice-President, re-elected four times, and my portfolio was Human Rights and Democracy. Over 20 years, I…
DetailsEuropean Resolution on the Ongoing Persecution of Falun Gong in China Click HERE to read the full resolution 18 Jan 2024: The European Parliament has passed a resolution on the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in China, notably the case of Mr Ding Yuande. MEPs Michael Gahler (EPP, Germany), Isabel Santos (S&D, Portugal),…
Details107 Experts & Organisations Call for Action Regarding China’s Denial of Human Rights China has been listed in the upcoming 2024 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to undergo peer-review by other UN Member States of its human rights records. An open joint letter initiated by the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) seeks to “call…
DetailsJoint NGO Letter Urges US Senate to Pass the Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act Click HERE to view the original letter. The Honorable Ben Cardin Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee 509 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable James Risch Ranking Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee 483 Russell Senate Office…
Details59 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…
DetailsPhoto: 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…
Details‘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…
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