Month: December 2012

Hello and welcome to our fourth annual Human Rights Day event here at the National Press Club.

My name is Jeffrey Imm, and I am the founder of the volunteer human rights group, Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.). Our objective is to promote consistency in universal human rights and human dignity for all of our brothers and sisters in humanity without exception. Our mission to focus on promoting the shared universal human rights and human dignity that we all have simply as being human beings, and work for the cause of equality and liberty for all. We offer forward-facing solutions to make change in our world with compassion and an outstretched hand of hope to our fellow human beings.

The groups joining us in promoting this Human Rights Day event share this vision. We are joined today by people whose groups represent major areas of human rights challenges in the United States of America and around the world. All of us seek consistency in such human rights and dignity. I am proud to have such courageous and committed leaders in human rights with us to help us commemorate Human Rights Day.

We are joined by
— Global Service Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party – Dr. Charles Lee, who will be addressing the human rights atrocities against the Falun Gong in China and the courage to believe
— Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG) – Niemat Ahmadi on human rights abuses against Darfuri and Sudanese people
— Pakistan Christian Congress/Post – Dr. Nazir Bhatti on human rights abuses against Pakistan Christians and minorities
— United for Equality (U4E) – Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) and Women’s Rights Activist Carolyn Cook
— Ahmar Mustikhan, Senior Balochistan Journalist and Human Rights Defender
— The International Committee To Support The Non-Violent Movement For Human Rights in Vietnam – Acting Vice Chairman, Mrs. Nathalie Nguyen, who will address “Raising Awareness of Human Rights Violations in Vietnam & Territorial Expansion Policy By The Chinese Communist Party.”

We thank each of the speakers and organizations that join us.

I want to be clear that we very much realize that these areas are not the only areas of human rights crises around the world today. We seek to present a diverse discussion of human rights issues, but we know there are other specific topics that will not be directly addressed. Our goal is something larger than any one individual issue, and that is to demonstrate that all of these issues share the same common root – a need to be consistent on our universal human rights and human dignity, and a need for our human society to be responsible for equality and liberty for all people.

Each of these speakers will come up one at a time. We will offer an opportunity for immediate questions after each speaker, if it does not go too long, otherwise we will need to any long questions to the end of the event. We are also especially honored to have a documentary that we will be showing here at 2 PM, “Free China: The Courage to Believe.” The “Free China” document examines the widespread human rights violations in China against the Chinese people and against Falun Gong practitioners, a type of Taoist and Buddhist meditation practice. We are honored to have those individuals behind this documentary also joining us today, including Director Michael Pearlman and one of the individuals in the film, Dr. Charles Lee who will also be speaking today.

We honor Human Rights Day today to commemorate the passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

Before I begin with the other esteemed speakers, I have a few comments of my own.

Please sign this petition on the U.S. White House Web Site to call for a condemnation and further investigation by the U.S. government of the organ harvesting from Falun Gong believers in China

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Investigate and publicly condemn organ harvesting from Falun Gong believers in China

Tens of thousands of illegally imprisoned Falun Gong believers have been used as a living organ bank, killed on demand to fuel China’s lucrative organ transplant industry, as outlined in this video: http://goo.gl/CcHPe.

The U.S. State Department’s 2011 Human Rights Report cited allegations of organ harvesting from Falun Gong believers and other prisoners of conscience. In October, 106 members of Congress wrote to Secretary Clinton requesting further information. Two Congressional hearings have covered the topic. Leading transplantation doctors and medical organizations worldwide have condemned this crime against humanity.

As a world leader in protecting human rights, the U.S. has a moral obligation to expose these crimes, stop them, and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice.

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See also R.E.A.L.’s article on this

“China: Murder Reported to Conceal Live Organ Harvesting Horror against Falun Gong”

Link on NDTV and Video Report on Live Organ Harvesting and Audio of Eyewitness

The atrocities have previously been reported in a series of reports by human rights investigators and the United Nations:

— January 31, 2007 report: Bloody Harvest –  Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China – By David Matas, Esq. and Hon. David Kilgour, Esq.

— March 20, 2007 report:  United Nations Human Rights Council – Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman ordegrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak — A/HRC/4/33/Add.1

— February 19, 2008 United Nations Human Rights Council – Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak – A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 – Summary of cases transmitted to Governments and replies received

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has repeatedly reported on CCP atrocities in Communist concentration camps and throughout the country of 1.2 billion people.  In Washington D.C., on July 13, 2012, victims of such Communist atrocities, including survivors who were once imprisoned in Communist concentration camps, told their stories of torture and the murder of others.  Another woman spoke of her family arrested by the Communists and sent to such a prison camp.  The Chinese people have been protesting in the United States of America and protesting in Taiwan to release the political prisoners of the CCP among Falun Gong and others, and they seek an end to this oppression of their people.   (July 13, photo album of Washington D.C. protest)

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for Universal Human Rights of human freedom, human dignity,and human safety for all of the Chinese people, and an end to the CCP’s oppression of the Falun Gong, Chinese Christians, Uighur Muslims, and all other Chinese people.

We call upon the people of the world to educate themselves, speak out, and demand action from their governmental leaders and world power leaders to use their full power, and economic and global influence,  to demand that the CCP halt these crimes against humanity against the Falun Gong and the Chinese people.

Choose Love, Not Hate – Love Wins.