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Fight against transplant tourism
According to DAFOH, transplants are primarily used by rich Chinese or Western. Following reports publishing, some governments and transplant organizations have strengthened "transplant tourism" restrictions, expressing their concern and distancing themselves with organ transplants practices without consent.

Taiwanese chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council condemned "in the strongest possible terms" China's harvesting of human organs from executed Falun Gong practitioners. Ministry of Health urged Taiwanese doctors not to encourage patients who want to pay for an organ transplant in mainland China,. In november 2012, Taiwan has taken measures to dissuade its 2,000 citizens travelling every year in China for transplantation.

Israel, 2005, a patient announces Dr. Jacob Lavee - cardiac surgeon and director of the Heart Transplant Unit Medical Center of Shebva - that he planned a heart transplant in China. Dr. Lavee is alerted by the fact that such an operation cannot be planned in advance and conducted its own investigation. The results of his research are first published in the Journal of the Israeli Medical Association. He writes that Israelis were the only tourists visiting China for organ transplant to be fully reimbursed by their insurance companies. This fact "recognize de facto the activities of Chinese transplants were legal and ethical". The appeal was heard and a large-scale survey was conducted and published in the most circulated Israeli newspaper.

In 2007, Jacob Lavee and Pr. Eytan Mor organize a major conference on "ethical dilemmas to solve the shortage of organs in Israel". The Chinese Embassy then pressure the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cancel the presentation of David Matas. The presentation is maintained and, as a balance, a Chinese speaker appointed by the embassy is included; he will be booed by the audience.

Then, there is an increasing public debate and a special meeting of the Health Committee held in Parliament. The committee added a chapter to a passed law forbidding "any refund for organ transplants performed abroad if transplants involve the illegal removal of organs or organ trafficking",. Insurance companies follow the new rules in March 2008. According to Jacob Lavee, these rules have significantly decrease the number of abroad transplants by Israelis - from 155 in 2006 to 26 in 2011. The passed law also opened new possibilities for transplants in Israel, allowing to reach a state of self-sufficiency, as advised by the Istanbul Declaration.

December 2006, the australian Ministry of Health canceled organ transplantation training programs for Chinese doctors. In November 2013, a petition signed by more than 70,000 people of New South Wales was presented to this state's Parliament. It asks to end illegal organs harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners and supports the project law to limit obtaining organs from unwilling victims, prohibit training of doctors involved in trafficking organ and penalize those who receive organ through illegal means.

Canadian doctors and members of parliament - the first to have filed a petition to the government - introduced in February 2008 a law to prohibit Canadians to receive organs from unwilling victims.

In France, a law filed by Valérie Boyer, Member of Parliament, and signed by 48 other MPs was issued on September 16, 2010. It aims to fight against transplant tourism and organs "obtained from living donors against their will and under the threat" and mentioned the "plight of Falun Gong practitioners in China".