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Greece: Practitioners Raise Awareness of Forced Organ Harvesting in China

World NewsNovember 4, 20180Comments

October 18, 2018, marked the 12th annual EU Anti-Trafficking Day to raise awareness of the atrocities of human trafficking. In conjunction with this important date, Falun Dafa practitioners in Greece held an event in Athens on October 20 to draw attention to the trafficking of vital organs taken from living Falun Dafa practitioners being persecuted…

Forums in Australia and New Zealand Discuss Ways to Stop Forced Organ Harvesting in China

Australia News, World NewsOctober 21, 20180Comments

A series of public forums and documentary screenings were held while Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas visited Australia and New Zealand. Matas is the co-author of the report, “Bloody Harvest , ” which exposes forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners in China. Practitioners are appealing to the governments there to investigate and…

New Report: “Transplant Abuse Continues in China Despite Claims of Reform”

World NewsJuly 22, 20180Comments

The China Organ Harvest Research Centre (COHRC) presented its most up-to-date research results at the 27th International Congress of The Transplantation Society in Madrid, Spain, which took place from June 30 to July 5. The researchers documented their findings in a new 341-page report titled “Transplant Abuse in China Continues Despite Claims of Reform.” A…

Arizona State Congress Passes Legislation Against Organ Harvesting Atrocities in China

World NewsApril 9, 20180Comments

In Arizona, both the State Senate and the State House of Representatives passed House Memorial HCM2004 condemning the persecution of the Falun Gong and the forced organ harvesting of non-consenting prisoners of conscience in China, primarily the Falun Gong. The legislation was passed on April 3, 2018. The legislation calls for the following key…

California Republican Assembly Condemns China’s Illegal Organ Harvesting

World NewsMarch 11, 20180Comments

The California Republican Assembly (CRA), the longest standing conservative grassroots volunteer organisation in California, recently passed a resolution calling on the Chinese Communist Party to stop its state-sanctioned harvesting of organs from prisoners of conscience. The majority of such prisoners in China are Falun Gong practitioners, and those who practice Falun Gong have been the…

Lectures at San Diego Universities Spotlight Human Organ Trafficking in China

World NewsNovember 19, 20170Comments

The International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China co-hosted panel discussions at two large public universities in San Diego, California earlier this month. The events aimed to raise awareness of China’s massive organ transplant abuses and support a resolution introduced by State Senator Joel Anderson in the California Senate condemning human rights violations in China.…

Canberra: Parliamentary Forum on Stopping Forced Organ Harvesting and Organ Tourism

Australia NewsSeptember 24, 20170Comments

After the Australian Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference on September 10, practitioners held a large rally in front of Parliament House in Canberra on September 11 and 12. A forum also took place in the parliament on September 11 on how to stop the state-sanctioned killing of Falun Gong practitioners for their organs and organ…

Australia: Catholic Weekly Reports on China’s Forced Live Organ Harvesting from Imprisoned Falun Gong Practitioners

Australia NewsJuly 31, 20170Comments

Catholic Weekly of Australia carried an article online titled “China’s harvest of blood, built upon Falun Dafa prisoners of conscience” by Catherine Sheehan on July 19, 2017. Sheehan interviewed two Falun Gong practitioners, Eric Jia and his aunt Lorrita Liu, whose family suffer the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution. Jia worries most that his…

Ireland: Forced Organ Harvesting Discussed by Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

World NewsJuly 16, 20170Comments

The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence of the Irish Parliament discussed the issue of forced organ harvesting in China on July 6, 2017. The committee recommended that the legislature do what it can to stop this brutality and urged the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to bring this up at…

The New Zealand Herald Covers China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

World NewsJune 18, 20170Comments

An article titled “The 'living dead': Chinese prisoners executed for their organs then sold to foreigners for transplants” was published in the New Zealand Herald on June 3, 2017. The article reported that prisoners of conscience in China, including Falun Gong practitioners, are killed for organs to be transplanted to foreign patients. The article stated,…

Canadian Lawmaker Urges Co-workers to Back His Organ Trafficking Bill

World NewsJune 2, 20170Comments

Conservative MP Garnett Genuis raised the issue of forced organ harvesting in China this week in the House of Commons in hopes of securing government support for his organ trafficking bill. “Canada needs to be vocal in standing up for international human rights, and in particular for the rights of persecuted minorities. Even above that, Canada…

Swedish Lawmakers Hold Forum on China’s Organ Harvesting Crimes

World NewsMay 8, 20170Comments

Sweeden, Four Swedish Parliament Members held a forum on Wednesday to promote a bill banning “organ tourism” to China. American reporter and China affairs expert Ethan Gutmann and a representative from the organization Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH), Dr. Harold King, were invited to speak at the forum. According to MP Marta Obminska, four lawmakers…