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Free Macquarie University (NSW) Lecture on "Policy and Law in Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse"

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Free Macquarie University (NSW) Lecture on "Policy and Law in Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse"
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discrete on 20/11/2016 - 10:54 cvent.com (43 clicks)
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Just heard of this annual lecture held by Macquarie University (RSVP by tomorrow, i.e. 21 Wed), details are as follows:

Topic: Policy and Law in Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse
Time: 6 - 8 pm
Venue: W5A Theatre 2, "014" on campus map: http://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/108142/Camp…

All are welcome but please register for catering purposes.

Info from website:

You are warmly invited to join us on Wednesday 23 November for the 2016 Macquarie University Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics annual public lecture. This year our speaker is international human rights lawyer David Matas, who will speak on “Policy and Law for Australia to Prevent Complicity in Foreign Transplant Abuse”.

Because of a shortage of organs, patients in need of transplants wait long periods. Some become desperate enough to undertake transplant tourism involving unethically sourced organs. What are the professional ethical and legal standards that Australia could develop to prevent complicity in foreign transplant abuse? David will discuss national and international standards that minimise local complicity in organ transplant abuse, drawing on his expertise on Chinese sourcing of organs from executed prisoners of conscience.

More info from speaker:

Various professional and international organizations have developed standards to avoid local complicity in foreign transplant abuse, such as receiving unethically sourced organs. This lecture will run through what those standards are. There is substantial evidence of transplant abuse
in China. The standards will be applied, in the form of a case study, to indicate what can be done to avoid complicity in transplant abuse in China. I consider what professional, national and international institutions both have done and could do to reduce complicity. For professional institutions, the talk will address how the standards apply to The Transplantation Society and the World Medical Association. For international institutions, the talk will consider the standards in
relation to the European Union, the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Office for Drugs and Crimes. For national institutions, the talk will consider standards in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Cheers :).

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  • aibargain on 20/11/2016 - 11:01

    Usual price?
    Sounds like an announcement not a Bargain

    • Savas on 20/11/2016 - 11:03
      +3

      please register for catering purposes.

      Free food = bargain

      • altomic on 20/11/2016 - 11:11
        +1

        mostly black pudding for some strange reason.

        • malouphix on 20/11/2016 - 12:01
          +1

          Wouldn't a black and white cookie be fairer?

    • altomic on 20/11/2016 - 11:03
      +4

      I think the bargain is in the learning of the loop holes for obtaining cheap organ transplants.

      • tonyjzx on 20/11/2016 - 11:06
        +2

        This might be useful to the typical ozbargainer quite frankly. Your organs arent going to put up with constant KFC HJs and alcohol specials.

        • altomic on 20/11/2016 - 11:10

          David Matas - he is actually a paid spokesperson for various illegal organ harvesting syndicates. his lecture includes a lot of "if you know what I mean", "wink wink", "don't do this as you may accidentally get in contact with an organ supplier", "come and see me after the lecture with a thick envelope of used $20 notes and I'll introduce to my friend in the back of a limo that's behind the lecture theatre".

        • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2016 - 11:51

          Do the harvesters look for healthy candidates? I mean if you kept a layer (or 2) of KFC around your kidneys, are you less likely to fall victim while travelling through China?

        • discrete on 20/11/2016 - 16:03

          @altomic: What basis do you have to claim what you said? "that he's a paid spokesperson for various illegal organ harvesting syndicates" etc? And isn't that contradictory to what he is doing, i.e. to stop forced organ harvesting in China? This is a matter that involves the life and death of tens of thousands (if not more) people, not something trivial or something which we can simply laugh off. You may be getting a "cheap" organ from China, but that organ, is most probably at the expense of another person's life (from a prisoner of conscience, aka someone illegally detained just because of differing political or spiritual beliefs).

        • GreatWhiteHunter on 20/11/2016 - 17:19

          @discrete:

          OP based on the "deals" you post you seem to have a strong anti-China political stance.

          That is fair enough, you are entitled to your views.

          But mods can we please be wary of OzBargain being used to post dubious "deals" which in reality are just promotions of a particular political stance.

        • discrete on 20/11/2016 - 19:47

          @GreatWhiteHunter: Actually, I consider my stance as being more of an ethical / human-rights stance. May I know what is "political" about being against forced organ harvesting? To me, it's a moral/ethical thing, not so much a political issue.

          I try to post things that I feel Ozbargainers might appreciate, such as the recent free movie screening of Hard to Believe at UNSW, which as you can check for yourself, is really selling for >$10 per ticket previously. Is that not a deal? It's a movie, and it's a documentary, and it is commercially screened at cinemas in Sydney recently. Even as I speak, there is another screening of that same movie in Hurstville tomorrow for >$10/ticket, which I did not post, because it is not a deal. If you say, that a seminar by a university is not a deal, then I'd understand - in this case, I'd appreciate a message from mods to let me know that this is the stance taken by Ozbargain and I won't do so in future.

          Regarding the type of postings I make, I believe each and every one of us is entitled to our own type/genre of postings that he/she makes. As long as those are deals, those should be fine. E.g. should I be barred/banned just because I make lots of Coles/Woolies postings and nothing else? Or post only about Dominos deals and be barred because I am biased towards Dominos?

          Of course, you're free to disagree with all/anything I've just said. Everyone, as you said, is entitled to his/her own views.

    • GreatWhiteHunter on 20/11/2016 - 11:35

      If every free university lecture is going to be posted as a deal, this site is going to fill up with a lot of crap SPAM "deals" very quickly.

  • [Deactivated] on 20/11/2016 - 11:03
    +2

    If you want to skip the queue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv5HF5x14Qo

    • discrete on 20/11/2016 - 22:32

      Thanks, that's a nice video, and quite recent too (Apr 2016). But the topic of the lecture seems to be a bit different, and David Matas is there in person, so you could ask him whatever you want :).

  • furiousgeorge on 20/11/2016 - 11:11

    Sounds riveting.

    • outlander on 20/11/2016 - 11:48

      Do I smell sarcasm?

      • Rifraf on 20/11/2016 - 14:43

        No I think its liver…….

  • malouphix on 20/11/2016 - 11:53
    +1

    I just need a degree to understand the title.

  • Pollywaffle on 20/11/2016 - 13:22

    I don't even go to my enrolled Macquarie lectures. Why would I voluntarily go to a free one like this?

    Free food? So no more fam.

  • Rifraf on 20/11/2016 - 14:45
    +1

    Do I really have to google Macquarie University myself to find out where it is?

    Ok, Sydney…….
    Too far to walk from here in Perth

    • discrete on 20/11/2016 - 16:04
      +1

      Apologies, I've added NSW to the subject ><.

      • Rifraf on 20/11/2016 - 16:22

        Oh its all good, I sincerely had no idea where it was.

        The thread caught my eye as I recently saw part of a documentary telling how Israel had banned the importation of organs from China due to the probability of them harvesting from involuntary donators.

        • retiredfeline on 20/11/2016 - 16:41
          +1

          * donors

          Sometimes the right word isn't as complex as you think. 😋

        • Rifraf on 20/11/2016 - 17:35

          @greenpossum:

          Alas no Macquarie University education

          Could be worse mind you……

          I could have found myself following Fulong Gong and ending up an involuntary "donor" of harvested organs in a large Oriental country

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