Back in the news again is this recurrent topic of the Chinese government's allegedly involuntary extraction of organs from imprisoned religious and political dissidents. Interestingly, the American Bar Association's background page relating to its "Rule of Law Initiative" in China omits any mention of or concern for this issue. Rather, the ABA has devoted its efforts to such ends as increasing sensitivities to rights of LGBTQ persons, and in one incident (in April of 2016) a leaked ABA staff email suggested ABA had withdrawn a publication offer for a work that might upset the Chinese government.
After reading the linked article, I ran a few searches to see if I could learn what, if anything, the ABA's Rule of Law Initiative is actually doing for anyone in China. It turned out very few specifics are available. Apart from ABA's own general background discussion, there is very little to indicate it has been active to any meaningful degree. Certainly it is not among the organizations referenced in the linked article as gathering evidence of the crimes against humanity associated with the reported organ extraction activities. Could it be that the ABA is again concerned that it might upset the Chinese government by any improvident mention of these issues? For whatever reason, ABA and its Rule of Law Initiative seem to be missing in action in this instance.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/survivors-and-victims-on-shocking-state-sanctioned-organ-harvesting-in-china/ar-AAJp1Qn
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