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Evaluation of Institution Responses to Student Applications from Abroad for Training Which Could Be Used to Abuse Human Rights (110284)
Session Chair: Michael Goh
Sunday, 12 July 2026 13:20
Session: Session 3
Room: UCL Torrington, G08 (Ground Floor)
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
Students from countries with widespread human rights abuses apply for training abroad in dual use subjects, where the training could be used, on return of the students to their home countries, to perpetuate abuses. What should be the response of the education institutions abroad to applicants from those countries for training in those subject matters? The presentation will set out how that question has been answered through the prism of a specific form of training, in organ transplantation, and a specific form of human rights violations, organ transplant abuse. Within the framework of transplantation, that question has been answered in five different ways. One response was to reject all such applicants. A second was to accept these applicants subject to their signing an undertaking not to use their training for transplant abuse. A third, for those who have already engaged in transplantation at home and are seeking further training abroad, was their signing a declaration that they had not engaged in transplant abuse. A fourth has been to accept these applicants on the same basis as applicants from other countries. A fifth has been to favour applicants from the countries not at the same level of development in transplant surgery techniques as the host countries in order to allow the applicants to learn from the advances in the host countries. The presentation would evaluate the results and conclude with an attempt to answer the question initially posed based on the lessons learned from the organ transplantation experience.
Authors:
David Matas, International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China, Australia
About the Presenter(s)
Mr David Matas is a Independent Scholar/Researcher at University of Manitoba in Canada
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