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• CA State Senator faces partisan blockage of his resolution on forced organ harvesting • Controversy erupts over the Vatican abdicating appointment of bishops to the Chinese government and inviting Chinese transplant professionals to organ trafficking summit a second time • Article in Journal of Trafficking and Human Exploitation explores the role that a state government has in forced organ harvesting • US universities may shy away from forums on organ harvesting due to the influence of Chinese student organizations and Confucius Institutes •

Leading transplant surgeons continue to exhibit faulty judgment by believing empty promises of Chinese transplant reform. Rather than objectively considering the concrete evidence exposing China’s organ harvesting transplant abuses and scrutinizing the information professed by Chinese officials, they are instead seriously compromising the integrity of the medical profession worldwide.

Around the globe, there is growing interest in how to stop unethical organ procurement and trafficking practices. Black market transplant tourism occurring in Pakistan, the Philippines and the Mediterranean region have drawn worldwide attention. The situation in China – due to recent international acknowledgements – is growing less transparent, however, while generating diametrically opposed responses to its transplant industry.

Dr. Torsten Trey, DAFOH’s Executive Director, was recently interviewed about the Chinese government’s claims of organ transplantation reform . Dr. Trey noted that the Chinese government has historically sought to obfuscate the entire state-run transplantation infrastructure so

On August 20th 1947, the Doctors’ Trial, officially termed the  United States versus Karl Brandt et al. , passed judgment on 23 Nazi defendants (of whom 20 were doctors) at Nuremberg who were indicted on charges which

For the past five years, DAFOH has been circulating a petition to the UN urging the High Commissioner for Human Rights to investigate and help end forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. More than  2.5

On April 15, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the release of the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report. The report measures how various countries fare on human rights in accordance with the International Religious Freedom