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 :).
Usual price?
Sounds like an announcement not a Bargain