International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit 2022 Click HERE for more information on IRF Summit June 28-30: The International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 took place in Washington DC, bringing together a broad coalition of organisations that operated together for the cause of religious freedom around the world. The Summit sought to increase public awareness…
DetailsThe Killing in China of Prisoners of Conscience for their Organs: Smoking Guns by David Matas Individual snapshots of organ transplant abuse in China and attempts at cover up can not show volume or scale or scope of the abuse. Yet these individual snapshots can provide insights that a description of the overall situation…
DetailsWATCH: Forced Organ Harvesting in China: Examining the Evidence Click HERE to watch the video on Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission website Last month, the American Journal of Transplantation – the top peer-reviewed publication on the subject – published a large-scale computational textual analysis of 2,838 Chinese-language articles published in Chinese academic journals between 1980…
DetailsCommonwealth of Virginia Passed House Resolution No. 9: Condemning the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners by the CCP Click HERE to read the full resolution “RESOLVED, That the House of Delegates condemn the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party; and, be it RESOLVED FURTHER, That the House of…
DetailsAmendment to the Health and Care Act: UK Prohibits Commercial Organ Tourism Click HERE to read the amendment to the Health and Care Act Last week, a new UK law came in to act; prohibiting commercial organ tourism to China, as well as other countries, internationally. The legislation change came about as a…
DetailsEuropean Parliament Resolution of 5 May 2022 on the Reports of Continued Organ Harvesting in China (2022/2657(RSP)) Click HERE to view the resolution The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions on EU-China relations, – having regard to its resolution of 12 December 2013 on organ harvesting in China[1], – having regard to the…
DetailsUyghur NextGen Project: Statement Against Organ Trafficking The Uyghur NextGen Project stands in solidarity with the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) and its campaign to stop the Chinese government’s illegal and inhumane organ trade. We will fight alongside ETAC to ensure no human being, incarcerated or not, has to ever…
DetailsWATCH – Launch Event for the Legal Advisory Report and Policy Guidance, “DO NO HARM: Mitigating Human Rights Risks When Interacting with International Medical Institutions & Professionals in Transplantation Medicine”. Event 1 – Aust/UK/Europe timezone Wayne Jordash QC – International Human Rights Barrister and Managing Partner and Founder of Global Rights Compliance Dr Julian…
DetailsInternational Law Firm Global Rights Compliance Publish Legal Advisory Report and Policy Guidance, “DO NO HARM: Mitigating Human Rights Risks When Interacting with International Medical Institutions & Professionals in Transplantation Medicine”. We are delighted to announce the publication of the Legal Advisory Report and Policy Guidance, “Do No Harm: Mitigating Human Rights Risks When…
DetailsOpen Letter – 65 NGOs Urge UN Special Rapporteurs to Take Further Action A joint open letter signed by 65 NGOs has been sent to the 12 UN Special Rapporteurs and human rights experts who issued a joint correspondence to the Chinese Government last year regarding credible evidence about forced organ harvesting targeting specific religious,…
DetailsDavid Kilgour by David Matas I have known David Kilgour all my adult life. From the get go, I could see that he was a friendly, outgoing, gregarious personality. David K. was an undergraduate at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in the early 1960s the same time as I, a bit ahead of me,…
Details(This page will be updated regularly over the next week as messages continue to come in.) A Tribute to the Honourable David Kilgour It is with great sorrow that we farewell our dear friend and colleague David Kilgour. David’s warm and friendly nature, and his great capacity to care for and dedicate himself to others,…
DetailsImage: Chamber of the House of Commons, UK, Wikimedia Commons Attribution U.K. Amendment Prohibits Commercial Organ Tourism: Combating China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Wednesday 30th March 2022: The UK’s House of Commons passed a government backed amendment to the Health and Care Bill to prohibit commercial organ tourism to China, as well as other…
DetailsStudents for Falun Gong – Public Statement Students for Falun Gong stands in full support of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China and our collective goal to end the inhumane act of forced organ harvesting in mainland China. For the past 20 years, the Chinese Communist Party has been systematically harvesting organs…
DetailsExecution by organ procurement: Breaching the dead donor rule in China Matthew P. Robertson and Dr Jacob Lavee The American Journal of Transplantation READ THE PAPER HERE – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969 MEDIA COVERAGE INCLUDES https://www.afr.com/world/asia/surgeons-executed-chinese-prisoners-for-organs-anu-study-20220404-p5aam0 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/study-chinese-doctors-executed-prisoners-by-organ-removal/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The dead donor rule is fundamental to transplant ethics. The rule states that organ procurement must not…
DetailsExecution by Organ Harvesting: A discussion on China’s crimes against humanity On Thursday, April 7th, VOC and ETAC co-hosted an online event with top China experts Matthew Robertson and Dr Jacob Lavee who presented on their groundbreaking paper published in the American Journal of Transplantation. Panelists include: Ambassador Andrew Bremberg (moderator), President and CEO, Victims of Communism Memorial…
DetailsThe Arithmetic of Compassion: Sharing the Stories of Victims of Persecution in China By Andrew Quist Read the stories on the Arithmetic of Compassion website HERE For the past 20 years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been arresting and torturing prisoners of conscience. The organization International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China…
DetailsSTATEMENT: CMA supports proposed legislation to criminalise coercion of organ donation and transplantation Read the statement on the CMA website HERE Ottawa – Mar. 21, 2022 – The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is deeply disturbed by ongoing reports of organ trafficking targeting minority populations in China. Recent reports from the China Tribunal and…
DetailsEthical standards and organ transplant abuse (Remarks for a presentation to the United Nations Conference on Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law, Porto, Portugal March 9, 2022) by David Matas Chinese health practitioners have been killing prisoners of conscience for their organs in the thousands every year from the start of this century. This…
DetailsThe Hudson Institute – Organ Harvesting as an Instrument of Religious Repression (Virtual Event) During the Hudson Institute’s “Olympics Boycott Series,” Nina Shea, director of Hudson’s Center for religious freedom, sat down with David Kilgour and David Matas to discuss their research on the Chinese government’s horrifying practice of organ harvesting.Mr. Kilgour and Mr.…
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