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On November 21, hundreds of Australian Falun Gong practitioners rallied in front of Capital Hill in Canberra to raise awareness of the ongoing human rights abuses perpetrated against their fellow practitioners in China since 1999. The rally put focus on murder for organs in China, and called for Australian politicians to support bringing an end to […] -
An important voice in the ethics of organ transplantation has joined a call for an international investigation into organ harvesting in China.
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SYDNEY, Australia―Multi-award winning film documentary “Hard To Believe”―an expose of organ pillaging from prisoners of conscience in China has wrapped up its premiere tour across Australia and New Zealand. Attending audiences participated in Q&A sessions with a panel of subject-matter experts following the screenings. Directed by two-time Emmy winning Ken Stone, “Hard To Believe” questions […]
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Nearby The Transplantation Society's annual congress in Hong Kong, another forum took place—one focusing on the genocidal abuse of transplantation in China
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Potentially lucrative treatment for diabetes, developed in China, not divulged, as doctors pronounced on Chinese ‘reform’
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Falun Gong practitioners in the 100-odd countries where the spiritual discipline is practised take every opportunity to raise awareness about the ongoing abuses toward their fellow practitioners in China. That has been the case since 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party under then-leader Jiang Zemin launched a widespread campaign of persecution against the group. So when […]
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A decade ago, two Canadians released a report on illicit organ harvesting in China so shocking that many struggled to believe it. Since then, the investigation has continued and they’ve now updated their findings in a report that details the industry that has sprung up in China around the harvesting of human organs. David Kilgour, […]
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Renowned rights lawyer David Matas releases a book about his life as a human rights advocate.
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David Matas dissects the official numbers on China's organ transplants in a recent address in Bern, Switzerland.
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SYDNEY—A harrowing documentary on forced organ harvesting from live prisoners in China has highlighted concerns that the state sanctioned practice continues despite claims by Chinese health officials that it has been stopped. The documentary, Human Harvest: China’s Organ Trafficking, screened on SBS’ Dateline last week, exposes an horrific system in China, where doctors, nurses and […]
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Medical experts have expressed skepticism over the Chinese regime’s pledge to end harvesting of organs from executed criminals.
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Late on a Friday afternoon the White House responded to a petition submitted to their "We the People" site about 3 years ago on organ harvesting in China.
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Tomorrow, Jan. 27, is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the day the United Nations General Assembly designated by a resolution passed in 2005 for commemorating the Holocaust. I, along with many others, will be going to Auschwitz tomorrow to remember that liberation in the place where it happened.
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LONDON—During a pause in the current world tour by authors of books on organ harvesting, the Chinese regime announced it will end the practice of harvesting organs from prisoners by Jan. 1, 2015. As well as being in the middle of the authors’ tour of the U.S., Canada, and Europe, the announcement, made on Dec. […]
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“Davids and Goliath,” a film about organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China, won Best Documentary at the 9th Hamilton Film Festival in Hamilton, Canada.
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The extremely short waiting time for organ transplants has made China the most popular country for transplantation tourism, in which patients from other countries travel to China for organ transplant surgeries. The average waiting time for a patient in the United States to receive a matched kidney is four to five years, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in March.
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Ethan Gutmann’s new book is a riveting inside account of China’s booming organ transplant business and gives a glimpse into the Chinese state's secret program to get rid of arrested dissidents while profiting from the sale of their organs—in many cases to Western recipients.
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Winnipeg lawyer David Matas receives the Carthage International Award in Rome for his human rights work.
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The world is acting quickly to counter the international traffic organs and Italy is in the game.
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The month of June this year was to be one of celebration for the Chinese transplant community.
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Until some point in May it was possible to easily arrange an organ transplant from China on the Internet.
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The vast majority of organs available for transplants in China are seized by killing illegally imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners, human rights lawyer David Matas says.
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A commission on human rights inside the Italian Senate passed a resolution recently which declared that the Chinese Communist Party has harvested the organs of tens of thousands of prisoners.
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A grass-roots movement that spans 5 continents and 53 countries: On Monday morning, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting presented to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva a petition that garnered almost 1.5 million signatures.
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China's turn came up again on 22 October 2013 at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review Working Group in Geneva.
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When an organ is removed from a still-live body, it is fresher and rejection rates are lower. “It’s possible to source an organ immediately after the victim is brain dead, but much more complicated,” said Matas.
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Liberal MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler says China must account for allegations of illicit organ harvesting.
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