China and the Universal Periodic Review 2018 by David Matas Introduction The human rights record of every member country of the United Nations comes up periodically for review at the UN Human Rights Council. For each country’s Universal Periodic Review session, three hours is allocated. The sessions are billed as interactive dialogues. Each state subject…
Statement on organ harvesting in China CSW believes in and works for the right to freedom of religion or belief for all. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and…
The following is the Human Rights Law Foundation’s public statement on abusive organ transplant practices in China — 2018 Since the year 2000 the People’s Republic of China has engaged in state-led efforts to industrialize its system of organ procurement and transplantation. This has involved a variety of intensive efforts to modernize its transplantation system, provide…
BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D The Platform of European Memory and Conscience International Conference Collège des Bernardins and Fondation Napoleon, Paris Communism as articulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th century was not instituted in any country until after the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent civil war during which an estimated 8-10…
While Beijing speaks to the West about claimed Chinese transplant reform something very strange is taking place in Northwest China. Xinjiang has the dubious distinction of being China’s favourite testing ground: in the 1960s it was nuclear weapons tests. In the 1990s, it was it was the first province to experiment with live organ harvesting…
Cafe Scientifique Presentation by Prof Wendy Rogers China is the only country in the world with a state-sanctioned programme of harvesting organs from prisoners. Wendy Rogers, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, will discuss evidence that forced organ harvesting still occurs in China and describe recent efforts by human rights lawyers, citizens and others to stop the…
Breaking story: Chinese authorities have expelled Ben Rogers – Deputy Chair of the Tory Human Rights Commission and EOP advisory board member – from Hong Kong. The world reacts. “If China is now in control of Hong Kong immigration, it means that the idea of Hong Kong people running Hong Kong is dead.” ~Ben…
BY DAVID MATAS Presentation to the European Society of Transplantation, Barecelona, Spain David Kilgour and I have been researching, writing, and speaking on the killing of Falun Gong for their organs now for ten years. Ethan Gutmann is a journalist who interviewed us on our work and then did his own. Since David Kilgour and…
BY DAVID MATAS Remarks prepared for delivery at the International Society for Organ Donation and Procurement (ISODP), 7 September 2017, Geneva, Switzerland Research that I and other have done has led to the conclusion that China has been involved in widespread, prolonged high volume organ transplant abuse which continues to this day. The sources of…
BY ETHAN GUTMANN A briefing via Skype at Australia’s Parliament House in Canberra. While I appreciate your invitation, listening to anyone on Skype can be tedious, so I’ll be brief. Three years ago, I gave testimony in Canberra on how the forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience evolved from a handful of Uyghur political…
SUBMISSION by EOP’s Australian Advocacy and Initiatives Committee (AAIC) AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT INQUIRY – Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade – The Status of the Human Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief VIEW/DOWNLOAD FULL SUBMISSION Submission_TheStatusOfTheHumanBeingToFreedomOfReligionOrBelief_2017 Executive Summary The AAIC is grateful for the opportunity to make this submission and…
BY DAVID MATAS An analysis of the current situation – 2017 Prague The Chinese Communist Party for years has been killing en masse prisoners of conscience for their organs. The evidence in support of this crime is detailed, consistent, verifiable, corroborated and unrefuted. Most of the information on which the conclusions are based comes directly…
Enver Tohti Bughda is a Chinese surgeon who performed an organ harvesting operation in the 1990s gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence – Houses of Orieachtas, Dublin, Ireland. (scroll down to view video footage of the testimony) Ladies and gentlemen: Thank you very much for this opportunity to…
BY DAVID MATAS International Academic Forum, 5 July 2017, Brighton UK Why are an innocent harmless group of people, practitioners of the exercises Falun Gong, being killed in China for their organs? There is something basic to the identities of both the Chinese Communist Party and Falun Gong which has led to this tragedy. We…
The following is Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights’ public statement on forced organ harvesting in China — 2017 The state-sanctioned organ pillaging particularly targeting the most vulnerable group in China, and especially singling out the Falun Gong is a standing assault on human rights, the Rule of Law, and China’s international treaty obligations. In a word,…
BY HON. DAVID KILGOUR, J.D. HARD TO BELIEVE AND HUMAN HARVEST These films have won numerous prizes and continue to be screened in many parts of the world. In Oslo, for example, I was told that there have been to date about 52,000 separate viewings of Human Harvest by Norwegians. Leon Lee of Vancouver devoted…
BY DAVID MATAS Chinese transplant professionals and health officials have made an effort to be engaged in international transplant events. Chinese government spokesman Huang Jiefu and others were active participants in The Transplantation Society Congress in Hong Kong in August 2016 and the Vatican sponsored Pontifical Academy of Sciences summit on organ trafficking and transplant…
BY DAVID MATAS A presentation to the International Academic Forum Conference on Identity, 24 March 2017, Kobe Japan Introduction I have been researching, writing and speaking on the killing of Falun Gong for their organs in China now for over ten years. In the effort to combat the killing of Falun Gong for their organs…
In the Chapter “The money trail: Expenditures, exploitation, and organ harvesting”, the report states, “It is in the context of dehumanizing propaganda, severe abuse in custody, and economic inducements that the ultimate form of financial exploitation has been reported: the killing of Falun Gong detainees and the extraction of their organs to be sold at…
BY DAVID MATAS Presentation to a Parliamentary briefing 11 January, 2017, Riga, Latvia There are two requests I would make of the Parliament of Latvia. One is implementation of the European Union Parliament resolution on organ harvesting in China endorsed in December 2013. One component of that resolution, and I quote, “Calls for the EU…