One of the most important petitions I think I have ever come across is the petition to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for the immediate end of forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners in China.
Incidentally, this isn't just Falun Gong practitioners being persecuted, but other groups including Uighurs, Tibetans and house Christians.
The petition is open for you to add your support until November 30th 2014. To quote from the DAFOH website, "Between July and December 2013, nearly a million and a half people from 50 different countries and regions signed the petition to call for an end to this unprecedented evil. On December 13th the EU adopted an urgent resolution on organ harvesting in China."
There is a lot more information and the link to the petition on the DAFOH home page. http://www.dafoh.org/ There is also a very good video.
In May, the International Conference on Organ Transplantation took place in London and Falon Gong practitioners in the UK gathered outside the conference venue in Westminster to raise public awareness of the way organ transplant operations are carried out in China and to collect signatures for the petition.
As well as the Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting website, there is more information and up to date news at the website of the International Coalition to End Organ Pillaging in China. I would urge anyone who would like to really understand the issue and not be placated by official statements, to visit their news and articles section... I found them all to be very helpful... but especially the public lecture, given in the University of Toronto by David Matas, a lawyer who knows a great deal about human rights violations in different countries, including China. The lecture is entitled "Flip flopping in China over sourcing organs from prisoners".
Thank you.
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