2010

On October 19, 2010, Valerie Boyer, a member of the French National Assembly, has organized a conference about aspects in transplant medicine in order to introduce a new transplant law. DAFOH was the co-host of the conference. Among […]

On August 13, 2010, Amnesty International Swiss has published a strong statement that calls for the end to the use of organs from executed prisoners. Amnesty International states that prisoners cannot provide meaningful consent in donating their

Regulations on clinical trials using transplanted organs do not define ethical standards about the procurement of the involved organs. Hence pharmaceutical and research companies are not required to investigate the source of the transplants. DAFOH

A former police officer from the Xinjiang Province in China, Nijiati Abudureyimu, witnessed the organ harvesting that is taking place in China. He escaped from China and is now seeking asylum. His report is adding insider information to the previous investigation.

In March 2010 Dr. Jiefu Huang, Vice Minister of Health in China held a presentation at the conference on organ donation and transplantation in Madrid. In this presentation he published several statistics about the organ donation system

At the Madrid Conference on Organ Donation and Transplantation, March 2010, Dr. Jiefu Huang, Vice Minister of Health of the People’s Republic of China held a presentation on the organ transplantation program in China. In his presentation Dr. Huang

The lack of transparency in organ transplantation in China is causing an unfortunate effect for global pharmaceutical companies that use organs from China for clinical studies. – On January 27, 2010, the Swiss based Public Eye awarded the Swiss Award and the People’s

David Matas and David Kilgour, the two prominent Canadian investigators who started to investigate on allegations of illegal life organ harvesting practices in China in 2006, were nominated for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. The third revision of their report “Bloody Harvest