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2022 Inaugural Nurses Summit on Combatting and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting

torsten.trey — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 05:34:12 +0000

In joint collaboration, the Academy of Forensic Nursing (AFN) and Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) hosted the inaugural Nurses Summit to Combat and Prevent Forced Organ Harvesting on November 1, 2022.

They share a unified vision to protect and promote ethical medical and nursing practices worldwide. With the goal of advancing this mission and disseminating knowledge, this summit highlighted the importance of the topic of the crime of forced organ harvesting to the global nursing community.

The Nurses Summit featured nursing scholars, leaders, human rights experts and eye witnesses who are passionate about raising awareness about this problem, preventing collusion and to seeing it end.

Host and Speaker
Deborah Collins-Perrica, MSN, CNS, APRN

Deborah Collins-Perrica is Dir. of Nursing Affairs for DAFOH, and a media consultant on raising awareness of transplant tourism and unethical forced organ harvesting from living people in China. Formerly a psychiatric clinician for the Department of Defense, she is in private psychiatric practice specializing in trauma, while serving as adjunct faculty for graduate and doctoral nursing programs at Univ. of Saint Joseph and as a psychiatric consultant to Goodwin University, CT, USA.

Moderator
Kathleen Thimsen, DrNP, MSN, RN, WOCN/ET, FNE, DF-AFN

Dr. Thimsen received a post- Masters certificate from Johns Hopkins University and Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Regis University. An awarded expert speaker and author on forensic nursing, education, wound care, and community health, she is a member and consultant with national nursing boards and co-founder of the Academy of Forensic Nursing and the Forensic Nursing Certification Board.

Speakers

1. Deborah Collins-Perrica, MSN, CNS, APRN

2. Ning Shi, Witness

Originally from mainland China, Ning Shi now lives in the US.

3. Ethan Gutmann, Investigative Journalist

Ethan Gutmann is an award-winning China analyst and human-rights investigator. He is a Senior Research Fellow in China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation whose work has investigated surveillance and organ harvesting in China. He is the author of the award winning book, “The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem,” articles for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, The Weekly Standard, National Review, World Affairs Journal, and other publications.

4. Jiang Li, Witness

Originally from mainland China, Jiang Li now lives in the US.

5. Ecoee Rooney, DNP, RN, AFN-C, NPD-BC, SANE-A, DF-AFN, Ochsner Health System

Dr. Rooney, a recognized expert in forensic nursing and nursing leadership, is Dir. of Nursing Leadership Development for Ochsner Health and Pres. of the LA State Nurses Ass. She was recently named a Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Forensic Nursing and is the Founding Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Academy of Forensic Nursing. A renowned speaker, she has presented workshops on recovering from conflict and trauma for international participants including former prisoners of war and those serving in refugee camps.

6. Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, Mitty Professor of Bioethics, Director NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Dr. Caplan is a renowned professor and researcher of medical ethics who is widely published and an expert on the topic of ethics in transplant medicine. He is head of the Division of Bioethics at New York Univ. Langone Medical Center and former chair of the Dept. of Medical Ethics, and the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the Univ of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

7. Rose Eva Constantino, PhD, JD, RN, FACFE, FAAN, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Nursing

Dr. Constantino is an Associate Professor and Fulbright Scholar. A BSN graduate of Adventist Univ, Philippines; then MSN, and a Ph.D. at Univ of Pittsburgh, and a JD (law) at Duquesne Univ. She teaches Forensic Nursing at the Univ of Pittsburgh School of Nursing Forensic Nursing.

8. Géraldine Monti, IDE, DE Pediatrics, Palliative Care, Secretary of the European Branch of DAFOH

Géraldine Monti, a generalist and pediatric nurse, works in the field of inpatient and community based palliative care and coordination. She has an interest in benevolence and ethics in nursing and the relationship between caregiver and patient. She acts as secretary of the European branch of Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting-France, raising awareness among the nursing community about forced organ harvesting from living people.

9. Debra Holbrook, MSN, RN, FNE-A/P, SANE-A, DF-AFN, FAAN, Mercy Med. Center, Baltimore, MD USA / President Elect Academy of Forensic Nursing

Debra Holbrook is an expert consultant for the U.S. Depts. of Justice and Defense on forensic nursing science, and founder of the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program, the model for the U.S. (US Senate, 2002). Her testimony before Congress and the Senate Judicial Subcommittees on Crime and Drugs facilitated the DNA Justice Act. A Fellow to the American Academy of Nursing, and recipient of international awards she is acting Dir. of Forensic Nursing at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD which coordinates care to victims of interpersonal violence.

10. Theresa Chu, Chairman, Legal Commission of Universal Declaration on Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting

Theresa Chu is an international human rights lawyer working against the persecution of Falun Gong on a pro bono basis. She has supported changes to human rights laws as a government advisor. An expert lecturer, Chu has spoken before government officials, human rights organizations and members of parliament about human rights issues and the collective lawsuits by Falun Gong practitioners from countries around the world.

11. Deborah Collins-Perrica, MSN, CNS, APRN

12. Jennifer Johnson, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, AFN-BC, SANE-A, SANE-P, President, Academy of Forensic Nurses

Dr. Johnson, President of AFN, is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and an advanced Forensic Nurse. She serves as a legal consultant in nursing standards of care, child abuse/neglect, sexual assault and medical negligence/malpractice and cases of negligent death.

Question & Answer Section

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Round Table Discussion on June 9, 2022

torsten.trey — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:54:28 +0000

Forced Organ Harvesting from Living People – Past, Present, Future

Sixteen years ago, the international community was made aware of forced organ harvesting from living persons for their organs in China. It is an unprecedented abuse of the medical profession, a violation of ethical standards in medicine, and a criminal practice.

As inconvenient it might be to confront and take actions to address this issue, in order to uphold the reputation of the medical profession, all medical professionals must now act against this abuse. Silence and inaction, hoping that the issue will resolve on its own is analogous to knowing there is a cancer and hoping it will dissolve on its own.

The most professional approach for the medical community is to diagnose the issue and then treat it. If a small group of medical professionals commit crimes against humanity, medical doctors everywhere need to inform themselves and act.

Our webinar will present a roundtable discussion on this topic, provide a review of the evidence that has been gathered in the past, update the audience about the latest research and discuss the next steps of action to stop forced organ harvesting. Our purpose is to educate medical professionals and equip them with data and knowledge so as to lay a path forward towards ending the abuse of forced organ harvesting.

FEATURED PRESENTERS

David Beyda, MD

David Beyda, Chair and Professor of the Department of Bioethics and Medical Humanism, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, where he also directs the Ethics Theme, as well as the Global Health program. He is the founder and Medical Director of Medical Mercy, the medical arm of One Child Matters, traveling 6-8 times a year to care for children in more than 20 countries, a few of which are Cambodia, Swaziland, Mozambique, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Since 2004, he has made more than 55 medical trips to third world countries serving underprivileged children. He received the Humanitarian Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics and most recently received the Humanitarian Award from the Arizona Medical Association.

Alejandro Centurion, MD

Neurologist, DAFOH, Board of Directors

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.

Martin Elliott, MD

Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Martin Elliott is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London & Emeritus Professor of Physic and now, Fellow at Gresham College London. From 2010 until 2015, he was Medical Director at Great Ormond Street.

G. Weldon Gilcrease, III, MD

DAFOH Deputy Director

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.

Jacob Lavee, MD

Professor (Emeritus) of Surgery, Heart Transplantation Unit Leviev Heart Center

Prof. Jacob (Jay) Lavee founded the Heart Transplantation Unit at the Leviev Heart Center of the Sheba Medical Center in Israel in 1991 and has served as its director until 2020. He is Professor of Surgery Emeritus at the Tel Aviv University.

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DAFOH Video Conference in Greece, May 2021 (Greek)

torsten.trey — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:54:39 +0000

Εξαναγκαστικές αφαιρέσεις οργάνων, πανδημία, λιμάνι Πειραιά. Η Ελλάδα θα πρέπει να απομακρυνθεί από την Κίνα.

Σε μια εποχή βαθειάς ηθικής κρίσης, ένα μήνυμα ελπίδας για επιστροφή στις ηθικές αξίες αποστέλεται από την Ελλάδα, γενέτειρα της Δυτικής Ιατρικής, σε όλο τον κόσμο. Ο όρκος του Ιπποκράτη, «ποτέ να μην βλάψω ή να αδικήσω», ως κατευθυντήρια αρχή του ιατρικού επαγγέλματος, έχει θέσει το θεμέλιο για την ηθική στην Δυτική Ιατρική.

Η πρακτική της μεταμόσχευσης οργάνων αποτελεί ένα από τα σημαντικότερα ιατρικά επιτεύγματα του 20ου αιώνα που έχει προσφέρει νέα ζωή σε πολλούς συνανθρώπους μας. Την ίδια στιγμή ωστόσο έχει δημιουργήσει την ανάγκη για αυστηρότερη εφαρμογή ηθικών κανόνων, ώστε να εξασφαλίζεται η συναίνεση των δωρητών και η τήρηση συγκεκριμένων προϋποθέσεων για να μπορέσει να πραγματοποιηθεί. Αυτό, δυστυχώς, είναι κάτι άγνωστο στην Κίνα.

Ο Παγκόσμιος Ιατρικός Οργανισμός DAFOH είναι ένας μη κερδοσκοπικός οργανισμός που επί 15 χρόνια ερευνά το ανήθικο σύστημα μεταμοσχεύσεων της Κίνας, του οποίου θύματα είναι κυρίως κρατούμενοι συνείδησης. Τον Ιούνιο του 2019, Ανεξάρτητο Δικαστήριο στο Λονδίνο (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqe55edUKk) εξέτασε σωρεία μαρτυριών και στοιχείων εκδίδοντας την απόφαση ότι πρόκειται για «Έγκλημα κατά της ανθρωπότητας», χαρακτηρίζοντας το Kινεζικό κράτος «εγκληματικό».

Θα αναλύσουμε τη σχέση μεταξύ της εξαναγκαστικής αφαίρεσης οργάνων, της επιδημίας SARS (2003) και της πανδημίας Covid-19 (2020), που έχουν κοινό παρονομαστή την παρόμοια στρατηγική προπαγάνδας και εξαπάτησης από την πλευρά της Κίνας, η οποία μεθοδευμένα επέφερε και οικονομικές επιπτώσεις.

Η ηθική και η διαφάνεια σε κάθε συνεργασία και σε κάθε τομέα, όπως στην υγεία, στο εμπόριο, αλλά και στον πολιτισμό, είναι η απαραίτητη βάση για την επιτυχημένη πορεία τους και την μακρόπνοη προοπτική τους. Είναι το θεμέλιο για μελλοντική ειρήνη και ευημερία.

Ποιο θα ήταν το μέλλον της Ελλάδας εάν απομακρυνόταν από ένα καθεστώς που διαπράττει εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας;

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DAFOH Video Conference (Austria), March 2021

jeel29526 — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:51:05 +0000

Die Österreichische Bevölkerung unterstützt traditionell Menschenwürde und ethische Werte. Vor einem Jahr hat Österreich sein grundlegendes Bedürfnis nach Stabilität und Sicherheit eingebüßt, als der Wuhan-Virus von China nach Europa gebracht wurde. Obwohl die chinesische Regierung über die Gefahren des Virus seit Januar 2020 Bescheid wusste, hat sie nicht nur keine Anstrengungen unternommen um Österreich zu warnen, sondern darüber hinaus noch die wahre Gefahr vertuscht. Obwohl der inländische Flugverkehr zum Stillstand gebracht wurde, hat Peking darauf bestanden, dass der internationale Flugverkehr fortgesetzt wurde.

Die Folgen dieser Verantwortungslosigkeit werden uns Österreichern täglich vor Augen geführt: gesundheitlich, gesellschaftlich und wirtschaftlich.

Jedoch ist die gesundheitliche Gefährdung und die zugrundeliegende Verletzung von ethischem Verantwortungsgefühl keine Seltenheit in China. Seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten hat China Organe von politischen Gefangenen entnommen, um das Transplantationsgeschäft in China zu fördern. Da es in China so gut wie keine freiwilligen Organspender gab, ist ein staatlich sanktioniertes Organraub-Programm eingeführt worden: In den letzten 20 Jahren wurden Hunderttausende von Falun-Gong-Praktizierenden wegen ihrer Organe getötet. Da die Praktizierenden wegen ihres Glaubens an Wahrhaftigkeit, Barmherzigkeit und Nachsicht seit 1999 brutal verfolgt und gefoltert werden, war es für die kommunistische Regierung in Peking möglich, ihnen auch die Organe zu rauben. Dies wurde im Jahr 2019 auch durch das China Tribunal (chinatribunal.com/) in London unter dem Vorsitz von Sir Geoffrey Nice bestätigt.

Sowohl der Organraub als auch die Pandemie sind durch Verheimlichung, Täuschung und Mangel an Transparenz gekennzeichnet. Schweigen und Ignoranz sind keine Option um Österreichs Sicherheit zu gewährleisten: Die Pandemie macht keinen Halt an der Landesgrenze. Würde uns China warnen, wenn ein neuer Virus auftauchen würde? Könnten wir tatenlos zuschauen, wenn ein Österreicher für eine Transplantation nach China reisen würde und dadurch das Todesurteil für einen Falun-Gong Praktizierenden auslösen würde? Kann Österreich Geschäfte mit China machen, wenn es keine Übereinstimmung der ethischen Werte gibt?

Ohne ethische Grundlage wird Österreich am Ende als Verlierer aus der Zusammenarbeit mit China aussteigen. Es ist essentiell für Österreichs Zukunft, dass die Beziehungen mit der kommunistischen Regierung in China neu bewertet werden. Solange die grundlegenden Menschenrechte und ethischen Werte verletzt werden, ist es empfehlenswert, dass sich Österreich und Europa von China distanzieren, bis man einen gemeinsamen Nenner an ethischen und universellen Werten gefunden hat.

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DAFOH Video Conference, Europe, Ending Illusion about China, Dec 10, 2020

jeel29526 — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:21:47 +0000

In commemoration of the International Human Rights Day and the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, DAFOH hosted a video conference on December 10, 2020:

“The Pandemic and Forced Organ Harvesting – Europe’s Opportunity to End its Illusions about China”
From its birthplace in ancient Greece to the modern day, ethics have influenced conduct and behavior in European societies. The Hippocratic Oath is the guiding principle for the medical profession, and businesses integrate corporate ethics. Consensus on ethical values has shaped the basic rights of the people and laid the foundation for peace and prosperity throughout the European continent.

In 2020, Europe plunged into economic and social crisis after the Chinese leadership allowed the Wuhan virus to spread outside China. While the world was caught unprepared for such a threat, the communist regime in Beijing had already begun to stockpile billions of face masks in February. The lack of transparency resulted in the loss of tens of thousands of European lives. But the pandemic is not an isolated case of China breaching medical ethics and causing disillusionment.

In 2019, the China Tribunal (chinatribunal.com/), chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice, concluded that China has practiced forced organ harvesting extensively and primarily from Falun Gong practitioners who have suffered over two decades of persecution, which constitutes, in essence, a cold genocide.

Europeans should be alarmed by the fact that China brutally persecutes people for their faith in truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, as these principles are deeply ingrained in European people. Europe’s leaders need to ask: What does Europe expect from China and what should Europe do about China’s human rights abuses?

Economic ties to China distort the answers. However, as the pandemic has unequivocally demonstrated, such economic ties can be fragile, especially when the business partner does not play fair. What will it take for Europe to awaken from its illusions about China?

Consensus on ethical standards, transparency and trust are key factors for any successful and healthy collaboration. Uncovering violations in these areas is a first step in building such consensus. Europe has started to address the issue of forced organ harvesting with the Written Declaration WD 48 passed by the European Parliament in 2016 and the Convention against Trafficking of Human Organs (No. 216) by the Council of Europe in 2015.

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DAFOH Video Conference, Washington D.C., November 19, 2020

jeel29526 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:41:15 +0000

Independent research has confirmed that the Chinese Government has been killing Falun Gong practitioners for their organs for over 20 years.

Recognized by the China Tribunal as a crime against humanity, the Chinese Government’s practice of forced organ harvesting has been understood as the primary means to suppress and eliminate Falun Gong.

What more can the US and other nations do to protect Falun Gong practitioners?

How can the US protect patients in this country from going to China to obtain these illegally procured organs?

What are the consequences for the US and other countries if steps are not taken to end forced organ harvesting?

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China’s state-sanctioned organ harvesting victims speak out

jeel29526 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:01:13 +0000

Survivors and victims’ tell their stories of state-sanctioned organ harvesting by the Chinese government. #FoxNews

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China Tribunal – UN Human Rights Council 42nd Session, 2019 (Ingenieurs du Monde)

jeel29526 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:58:43 +0000

Mr Hamid Sabi – Counsel to the China Tribunal addressed the UN Human Rights Council on the 24th September, 2019. (Footage provided by UN live feed and Ingenieurs du Monde.)

FULL SPEECH TEXT

Mr. Vice President

The Durban Declaration “affirms the urgent need to prevent, combat and eliminate all forms of trafficking in persons.” Including organ trafficking.

The China Tribunal, a people’s tribunal chaired by Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, considered all available evidence and concluded that forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience including the religious and ethnic minorities of Falun Gong and Uyghurs has been committed for years throughout China on a significant scale, and that it continues today. This involves hundreds of thousands of victims.

Acting on independent legal advice, the Tribunal concluded that commission of Crimes Against Humanity against Falun Gong and Uyghurs had been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Victim for victim and death for death, cutting out the hearts and other organs from living, blameless, harmless, peaceable people constitutes one of the worst mass atrocities of this century.

Organ transplantation to save life is a scientific and social triumph. But killing the donor is criminal.

Government and international bodies must do their duty not only in regard to the possible charge of genocide but also in regard to Crimes Against Humanity, which the tribunal does not consider to be less heinous.

It is the legal obligation of UN Member States and the duty of this council to address this criminal conduct.

Thank you Mr Vice President.

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South Korean TV Documentary Confirms Organ Harvesting Still Occurring in China (v4)

jeel29526 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:56:24 +0000

A recent documentary produced by South Korean TV Chosun that aired in November 2017 explores ethical dilemmas facing Koreans regarding organ transplantation. The film explains that only ten percent of the 32,000 Koreans currently waiting for organs will ever receive them. As South Korea has low voluntary organ donation rates, many Koreans choose to forgo the five year wait for a kidney transplant and instead, take advantage of the easy access to and short wait times for organs in Chinese hospitals.

The “Investigative Report 7” team traveled to an unnamed hospital in Tianjin, China with the medical documents of a Korean man in need of a kidney to inquire about obtaining an organ for him. With hidden cameras they interviewed the head nurse and an elderly Korean patient who was recovering from a recent transplant operation.

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DAFOH joint Videoconference in Spain and Italy, July 15, 2020

jeel29526 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:53:16 +0000

China’s clash with Europe – totalitarianism versus ethics and culture, a videoconference on forced organ harvesting and the impact of COVID-19 on Spain and Italy.

Panelists included: Dr. Rafael Matesanz Acedos; Hermann Tertsch del Valle-Lersundi; MEP, Vito Comencini; Carlos Iglesias; and Dr. Juan Luis Steegmann. The videoconference was held in both the Spanish and Italian languages.

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