Since the start of the prosecution on 20 July 1999, governments and NGOs around the world have spoken out against the human rights violations that Falun Gong practitioners in China face every day.
The UN Special Reporter on Torture, Manfred Nowak, has documented many cases of torture of Falun Dafa practitioners during his term of office (2004 – 2010) and repeatedly appealed to the Chinese authorities to end the persecution.
On 12 December 2013, the European Parliament adopted a resolution against organ harvesting to allow its Member States to publicly condemn the organ transplant abuse in China.