Category: Organ Harvesting

A State Department Report on Organ Harvesting That the CCP Could Love

For each of the last 26 years, the State Department has briefly mentioned the egregious practice of forced organ harvesting in China in its congressionally-mandated annual international human rights reports. This year’s chapter on China creates a new sub-section, titled “Organ Harvesting,” which held the promise for, finally, some solid coverage of the mountain of…


Matas: David Kilgour’s Fierce Devotion to Principle and Profound Empathy for Rights Abuse Victims Will Endure

Commentary I have known David Kilgour all my adult life. From the get-go, I could see that he had a friendly, outgoing, gregarious personality. David was an undergraduate at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg in the early 1960s the same time as I. He was a bit ahead of me, but as active in…


LIVE: ‘Victims of Communism’ Panel on Organ Harvesting in China

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) will host an online event with top China experts as they discuss Beijing’s crimes against humanity as it relates to forced organ harvesting in China. Watch here on Thursday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m. ET. Featured participants…


Surgeons as ‘Executioners’: Chinese Doctors Committed Murder to Fuel Regime’s Organ Transplant Industry, Study Finds

Hundreds of Chinese doctors and other medical workers have been acting as “executioners” for the state to sustain the lucrative organ transplant industry, a study published in a top U.S. medical journal has found. The study, published in the American Journal of Transplantation on April 4, reviewed more than 120,000 Chinese-language publications on organ transplants…


LIVE on April 7, 9 AM ET: ‘Victims of Communism’ Panel on Organ Harvesting in China

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) and The International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC) will host an online event with top China experts as they discuss Beijing’s crimes against humanity as it relates to forced organ harvesting in China. Watch here on Thursday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m. ET. Featured participants…


‘Time to Wake Up’: Calls Grow for Medical Community to Break Silence on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

Those carving out organs from living innocents with their scalpels aren’t the only ones complicit in the crime of forced organ harvesting. Silence amounts to complicity, too. That was one of the arguments raised at a March 23 virtual roundtable held on the sidelines of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting, where a panel consisting…


An ‘Unprecedented Evil Atrocity’: Countries Urged to Criminalize Forced Organ Harvesting

Human rights groups are pushing a bill to create an international sanctions network to punish the communist Chinese regime for what they describe as the “unprecedented evil atrocity” of forced organ harvesting. The bill would make it a crime for anyone to forcibly remove organs from another living person against their will, store or transport…


NGOs to Launch Summit on China’s Forced Organ Harvesting

A virtual event calling out China’s state-sponsored forced organ harvesting of living people, which targets religious and ethnic minorities, will be held on March 22. Forced organ harvesting from living prisoners of conscience has secretly existed for over 20 years across the country under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), spotlighting an escalation…


Senator Kimberley Kitching: A Virtuous Voice of Reason

Commentary Kimberley Jane Kitching, a Labor senator for the Australian state of Victoria, died unexpectedly on March 10 at the age of 52. Her untimely passing, caused by a suspected heart attack, follows the recent deaths of cricketers Shane Warne and Rod Marsh, also from heart attacks. Throughout her senatorial career Kitching was an upstanding…


‘The People of China Deserve Better’

“The Chinese communists game the system,” Rep. Chris Smith said. “People are afraid to stand up to them.” In this episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek discusses human rights and China with Smith, a representative of New Jersey’s 4th district. For the past four decades, Smith has been one of Congress’s most vocal…