Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Groups to Launch Global Summit

Anti-Forced Organ Harvesting Groups to Launch Global Summit
The Epoch Times


Five non-governmental organizations (NGO) are planning webinars about battling organ transplants from non-consenting detainees, primarily from Falun Gong adherents, during the coming UN General Assembly in September.

The World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting is set to hold six webinars on two consecutive weekends. The first session starts on Sept. 17. Discussions will approach the issue from the perspectives of medicine, law, human rights, politics, media, and social impact.

Thirty-five guest speakers are expected to attend, consisting of medical and legal experts, professors, councilors, and journalists from 19 countries, including North America, Europe, and East Asia.

Organizers write on their website that their goal is to “provide the international, global community with objective findings and assessments about forced organ harvesting from living, non-consenting people.”

“For over two decades, the Chinese Communist Party has mobilized the entire state apparatus to monetize the bodies of those deemed undesirable and turn medical professionals into executioners,” the website said. Organizers claim that the main victims are practitioners of Falun Gong, jailed as prisoners of conscience and “killed on demand for their organs.”

The core initiator of the event is Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting. The other four co-organizers are Europe’s CAP Freedom of Conscience, Japan’s Transplant Tourism Research Association, Korea Association for Ethical Organ Transplants, and Taiwan Association for International Care of Organ Transplants.

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