Posted at 11:09 a.m., Tuesday, October 23, 2007
UH forum probes China's alleged illicit organ harvests
Advertiser Staff
Two international human rights experts will speak Monday at a University of Hawai'i at Manoa forum titled "China's New Genocide" that will focus on alleged large-scale, systematic harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners in China.The forum. set for 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Architecture Department's auditorium, will feature David Matas, an international human rights lawyer in Canada, and Dr. Kirk Allison, director of the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Rights and Health,
Matas will speak about his independent investigation into the subject. He has served on the Canadian delegation to the United Nations Conference on an International Criminal Court, and the Canadian Delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust.
Allison, an authority on medical ethics, human rights, and public policy, will discuss medical ethical issues of international organ transplantation in relation to illicit organ harvesting in China.
The event is sponsored by Associated Students of the University of Hawaii and the UHM College of Social Sciences and Geography Department. Other UH groups that helped plan this event are the Falun Gong Club and Amnesty International. For information, contact Professor Hong Jiang at 956-8164 or hjiang@hawaii.edu
