On November 15, 2011, the University of Arizona's Honors College hosted this public lecture by Dr. Shizhong Chen. A regular United Nations speaker, Dr. Chen, discussed an ongoing abuse of human rights in China that involves illegal organ harvesting and a persecution of a peaceful and spiritual group known as Falun Gong. Dr. Shizhong Chen has been active in projects concerning China for over 20 years. He has founded, co-founded, or been spokesperson for a number of organizations concerning China, and has spoken extensively on issues related to China. Dr. Chen was born in China in 1962. At 15, he entered the gifted program at the China University of Science and Technology. He came to the U.S. in 1982 to study and received his Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of California, San Diego. He currently runs a molecular biology company in San Diego. In 1989, while in graduate school, Dr. Chen participated in and organized activities to support the student movement in China. After the June 4th Tienanmen massacre, Dr. Chen co-founded the Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars in the U.S., and was elected as vice president of this nationwide organization in 1990. He has given speeches and forums on various China-related subjects to universities and at national and international events. Since 2001, he has regularly attended and spoken at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva and New York. He has made multiples appearances on radio, TV shows and interviews, and has authored several reports and books on China.