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The Congressional-Executive Commission on China was created by the U.S. Congress in 2000 "with the legislative mandate to monitor human rights and the development of the rule of law in China, and to submit an annual report
to the President and the Congress. The Commission consists of nine
Senators, nine Members of the House of Representatives, and five senior
Administration officials appointed by the President." (CECC About). The CECC FAQs provide useful information about the CECC. See CECC Frequently Asked Questions. They have developed positions on a number of issues. See CECC Frequently Asked Questions. They have developed positions on a number of issues: Access to Justice; Civil Society;Commercial Rule of Law; Criminal Justice; Developments in Hong Kong and Macau ; The Environment ; Ethnic Minority Rights;Freedom of Expression; Freedom of Religion ; Freedom of Residence and Movement ; Human Trafficking ; Institutions of Democratic Governance ; North Korean Refugees in China; Population Planning ; Public Health ; Status of Women ; Tibet ; Worker Rights ; and Xinjiang.
CECC
tends to serve as an excellent barometer of the thinking of political
and academic elites in the United States about issues touching on China
and the official American line developed in connection with those
issues. As such it is an important source of information about the way
official and academic sectors think about China. As one can imagine many
of the positions of the CECC are critical of current Chinese policies
and institutions (for some analysis see CECC).
CECC periodically hold hearings built around its core issues--human trafficking an dspublic health. Top those ends CECC announced a hearing: "A Market Built on Victims: Stopping Illegal Organ Trafficking in China and Beyond"wchuled for 14 May 2026 and livestreamed on the CECC’s YouTube channel.It is built around three new books have been
published, which CECC suggested "provide fresh perspectives on this issue,
drawing renewed attention to evidence of forced organ harvesting in
China, the relationship between religious persecution and transplant
abuse, and how international medical, academic, commercial, and
government actors have failed to confront or prevent these atrocities"
The CECC Press Release announcing the hearing, including its speakers follows below.
The systematic, widespread, and nonconsensual removal of human organs for transplantation—often described as forced organ harvesting or illegal organ trafficking—remains one of the gravest human rights concerns associated with the People’s Republic of China. Reports by researchers, human rights advocates, and medical ethics experts have raised serious concerns that prisoners of conscience, including Falun Gong practitioners, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, and other political and religious prisoners, have been targeted within a state-enabled transplant system.
Three new books have been published recently that provide fresh perspectives on this issue, drawing renewed attention to evidence of forced organ harvesting in China, the relationship between religious persecution and transplant abuse, and how international medical, academic, commercial, and government actors have failed to confront or prevent these atrocities. This hearing will further explore what the United States and its allies can do to address this heinous global crime and examine additional steps that can be taken to hold both PRC officials and organ traffickers accountable for their roles in perpetuating it.
The hearing will be livestreamed on the CECC’s YouTube channel.
Ethan Gutmann, Senior Research Fellow in China Studies, the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation; author of The Xinjiang Procedure and The Slaughter
Ambassador Sam Brownback, Senior Fellow, Pepperdine University; former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom; former U.S. Senator and Governor of Kansas; author of China’s War on Faith
Jan Jekielek, Senior Editor, The Epoch Times; Host of “American Thought Leaders”; New York Times best-selling author of Killed to Order
Additional witnesses may be added
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