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	The '''Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG)''' is an international lobby group established in the ] on April 5, 2006 by the Falun Dafa Association.<ref>Thomas Lum, , Congressional Research Service, August 11 2006</ref> The organization also has offices in ]. . In 2006, the organization issued a controversial report authored by former Canadian Secretary of State for the Asia-Pacific region ] and attorney ] implicating hospitals and jails throughout China for being involved in ].

	== Opposition to the 2008 Beijing Olympics ==

	The organization sponsors the international Global Human Rights Torch Relay that travels through 150 cities in 35 countries of Europe, Asia, North America and Australasia to support a boycott of the ]. . Mattas has argued that "it is unthinkable under the Olympic Charter that the same government torturing people in one part of Beijing could be hosting the Olympic Games in another part of the same city". The head of the Canadian branch of the CIPFG is Rabbi Dr. ], leader of the Congregation ], who has publicly called for ] to put pressure on the Chinese government to cease organ harvesting by quitting the Olympic Games .

	== International influence ==

	In December 2006, the Australian government responded to a CIPFG petition by announcing the abolishment of training programs for Chinese doctors in organ transplant procedures in the Prince Charles and the Princess Alexandra Hospitals as well as ending their joint research programs into organ transplantation with China . Australian Senator ] is a member of the CIPFG.

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	==External links==
	* http://www.cipfg.org/
	* http://www.humanrightstorch.org/

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