Escalation of Human Rights Violations in the 21st century: Finding solutions to help combat crimes against humanity
Recorded
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 · 2:00 p.m.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
CAP Liberté de Conscience (ECOSOC since 2016) is organizing a virtual side event to the 49th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2022. DAFOH (Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting) is honored to be a co-organizer of this important event.
At this conference international experts will express their concerns about forced organ harvesting and basic human rights violations in China. A round table discussion format will allow for a deeper exploration of the topic and solutions for ending these abuses. Audience members who registered for the event will be able to submit questions to the panel at the end of the round table discussion.
The international community has been presented with irrefutable evidence that led to the unanimous judgment that the egregious crime of forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners has occurred for over two decades and continues to occur to this day in the People’s Republic of China.
In 2019 the China Tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice evaluated evidence and witnesses independently and suggested further actions to the international community to stop this abuse. https://chinatribunal.com/
On June 14, 2021, the United Nations published a statement co-signed by twelve UN Special Rapporteurs and experts, reflecting concerns about forced organ harvesting. The UN human rights experts were alarmed by reports of alleged ‘organ harvesting’ targeting various minorities in China, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Muslims and Christians. The experts called on China to respond to the allegations of ‘organ harvesting’ and to allow independent monitoring by international human rights mechanisms.
In September 2021, a coalition of five NGOs organized the World Summit on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting during which Lord Philip Hunt, UK, described the forced organ harvesting as “commercialized murder and without doubt, among the worst of crimes.” At the end of the World Summit, the Universal Declaration on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting was launched. https://universaldeclarationcpfoh.net/
Despite the accumulated evidence and the voices that have been raised to expose these crimes, the international community has yet to take significant action to stop them to the extent that the moral values of civilization are at stake. Now is the time for humankind to decide if it accepts or rejects the killing of human beings for forced organ harvesting or other exploitations.
Objective
We propose to come together at this virtual side event during the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva to discuss action steps and solutions in order to stop this crime against humanity.
Casey Alves has a Master's of Human Rights law degree from Oxford Brookes University. Her Master's research focused on the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs in China. She has since devoted time to raising awareness...
Alejandro Centurión, MD, is a neurologist and member of DAFOH for more than 15 years. He has participated in various activities to raise awareness among the general public and medical profession regarding the crime of forced organ harvesting. He...
Chairman, Legal Commission of Universal Declaration on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting
Theresa Chu is an international human rights lawyer. Since the onset of the persecution against Falun Gong in 1999, she has defended victims on a pro bono basis and is actively involved in litigation to bring suit against former Chinese Party...
Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in 1988. His organization...
Dr. Gilcrease is an Assistant professor of medicine at the University of Utah. He is the medical director of the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and the program director for the hematology/oncology fellowship. He has won numerous teaching awards and is a...
Philip Hunt, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, is a Labour member of the House of Lords. He served as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health from 1999 to 2003. He was President of the Royal Society for Public Health from 2010...
Carlos Iglesias is a Spanish human rights lawyer specialising on human rights abuses in China. He represents Falun Gong practitioners in criminal cases brought against former Chinese President Jiang Zemin and four other Chinese Communist Party...
David Matas graduated from Oxford University, England, and is a legal expert specializing in refugee, immigration and human rights law. In July 2006, he and David Kilgour, through independent investigations, published “Report into Allegations of...
Thierry Valle is President of the UN approved NGO, the Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience, France (CAP-Freedom of Conscience), and has been an active advocate for human rights for more than two decades with...
Dr. King is Director of DAFOH France. Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting aims to provide the medical community and society with objective findings of unethical and illegal organ harvesting. Forced organ harvesting, the removal of organs from...