Webinar: Leadership means Courage to Act — Call upon China to end Forced Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong. by DAFOH

Leadership means Courage to Act — Call upon China to end Forced Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong.

About

As world leaders prepare to attend the G-7 summit in Canada, 15-17 June, 2025, Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) will host a virtual roundtable discussion to mark the 1st anniversary of the international G7+7 Petition to stop organ harvesting perpetrated by the Chinese State against innocent people imprisoned for their faith or ethnicity.

This worldwide G7+7 Petition calls for the G-7 governments, plus Argentina, Australia, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea and Taiwan, to “issue a joint declaration condemning the PRC’s practice of forced organ harvesting, calling for its immediate end, and to implement an intergovernmental action plan.”

The petition was launched in June 2024 with the support of more than 20 civil society organizations.

Evidence accumulated over the past 19 years has established that forced organ harvesting in China exists and is of concern to the international community, yet governments have failed to adequately respond to this crime. Active leadership is long overdue, while the courage required to speak up against this atrocity is a small step on the path towards seeking a more just world.

Highly experienced speakers, specialized and passionate about human rights, will discuss in depth the horrors of forced organ harvesting, the consequences of this practice for western democratic countries and how all people can participate in breaking the silence within the international and medical community by simply talking about these crimes with friends and family and by signing the petition.

With the support of people around the world, G7+7 leaders should be inspired and encouraged to call out the Chinese state and stop forced organ harvesting forever.

Learn more about the G7+7 Petition: https://fohpetition.org/

EVENT ENDED

Presenters

Joseph Gigliotti, DC

Moderator

DAFOH Member Dr. Joseph Gigliotti is a chiropractor and the founder of Full Life Family Chiropractic, a neurologically-focused clinic specializing in Upper Cervical Chiropractic care. A graduate of New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Gigliotti is committed to mastering traditional upper cervical techniques while integrating advanced imaging to enhance clinical outcomes and is recognized for his precise, image-guided approach to spinal alignment, helping patients address a wide range of health concerns. He also mentors recent graduates in principled, patient-centered care.

Maria Cheung, PhD

Professor Emeritus

Dr. Maria Cheung is a Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba. She is an Advisor to the Conflict and Resilience Research Institute of Canada. She has received significant research grants, including from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (former CIDA), to conduct research in Canada, Hong Kong, and China. She has numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on the human rights of Falun Gong. Her work on the “cold genocide” of the Falun Gong is ranked among the most popular articles in the International Journal of Genocide Studies and Prevention.

Garnett Genuis

Member of Parliament

Garnett Genuis is the Member of Parliament for Sherwood Park–Fort Saskatchewan and the Conservative Shadow Minister for Jobs. First elected to Parliament in 2015, Mr. Genuis previously served for five years as the Conservative Shadow Minister for International Development and is a co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. Impacted by his grandmother’s experience as a Holocaust Survivor, Mr. Genuis has been active on many high-profile domestic and international human rights issues and was a sponsor of Canada’s 2022 law to combat human trafficking in organs. Mr. Genuis holds degrees from Carleton University and the London School of Economics. He runs a bi-weekly podcast called Resuming Debate and publishes regularly on Substack.

William Huang

Witness and Human Rights Defender

William Huang is a Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) practitioner and was a Ph.D. candidate at China's prestigious Tsinghua University. Simply because of his spiritual belief, his Ph.D. study was interrupted and he was imprisoned for a total of 5 years. During his imprisonment, he was subjected to multiple forms of torture and abuse, including long hours of slave labor, sleep deprivation, forced brainwashing, and high-voltage electric baton shocks. He was forcibly blood-tested during his imprisonment, not for the benefit of his health (and receiving no subsequent medical care), but as part of widespread blood testing campaigns of imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners targeted for forced organ harvesting. Mr. Huang was fortunate enough to escape China and come to the USA in 2008 where he is now a senior engineer living in Pennsylvania.

David Matas

International Human Rights Lawyer

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 the late Hon. David Kilgour, through independent investigations, published “Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China.” The work won them the 2009 Human Rights Award from the German-based International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) and nomination for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Matas has traveled to more than 50 countries to raise awareness of China’s forced organ harvesting from living prisoners of conscience, especially Falun Gong practitioners. The documentary film of these investigations into China’s systematic crime, “Human Harvest,” won the 2015 Peabody Award.

Dan Muys

Member of Parliament, House of Commons of Canada

Mr. Dan Muys serves in the House of Commons of Canada as the Member of Parliament for the Hamilton-area riding of Flamborough-Glanbrook-Brant North. He is the Official Opposition’s Associate Shadow Minister for Transport and previously served as the Deputy Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Communities. With 30 years in politics, Mr. Muys has worked in various roles on Parliament Hill and at Queen’s Park. He is a member the Ancaster Rotary Club and the Flamborough Chamber of Commerce and has served as a board member for both the Royal Botanical Gardens and Canadian Public Relations Society.

Andreas Weber, MD

Deputy Director, DAFOH Europe

Dr. Andreas Weber is a specialist in trauma surgery and orthopedics. He served as an Expert to the Health Committee of the Ministry of Health's 20th German Bundestag hearing on the amendment of the German Organ Transplantation Act. Dr. Weber is a former member of a surgical organ transplantation team of the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO) and worked in the allocation of donor organs and the composition of organ transplant teams for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Full name*

Email Address*