by Stoppt Leihmutterschaft – Austria – Felix Surrogacy and international law Opinion on the mandate and negotiations of the Expert and Working Group of the General Affairs and Policy Council of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Background: From 2016-2022, an expert group of the HCCH met to examine the possibility of further […]
Seven points against surrogacy
In the context of the CSW67 on “Surrogacy a violation of human rights, a violence against women“, a conference led by CIAMS, we sent these seven points to members of UN agencies and institutions that represent and promote respect for human rights and are concerned by surrogacy. These points denounce the forms of violence and […]
Cases of human trafficking related to surrogacy in European Union
On the occasion of the revision of the Directive Against Trafficking in Human Beings by the rapporteurs RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia and Björk Malin, we spoke to RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia’s parliamentary assistant. Our aim is to include surrogacy in this revision as a form of exploitation and as part of European human trafficking. She asked us […]
European amendment to recognise surrogacy as a form of trafficking
As part of the revision of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings at European level, we are calling for surrogacy to be included and recognised as a form of exploitation (sexual and reproductive) to be taken into account in trafficking in human beings. This change would make it possible to recognise […]
Call on CEDAW to recognise surrogacy as a violence against women
As part of our contacts with members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), we sent this concept note. After outlining the sexual and economic exploitation of women and the violence perpetrated by the surrogacy industry, the concept note calls for an international policy aimed at abolishing surrogacy because of […]
Migrant women and reproductive exploitation[1] in the surrogacy industry. Joint investigation by ENoMW & ICASM
Research, carried out in 2021-2022 by ICASM and ENoMW on the use of women as “surrogate mothers”, oocyte donors or forced pregnancies in cross-border practices. (Study also available in PDF ENG Final Migration and surrogacy) Migrant women and reproductive exploitation[1] in the surrogacy industry Introduction The International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogacy […]
Petition to condemn the Hague Conference draft protocol and the Verona Principles as they aim at organising cross-border reproductive exploitation
The undersigned, feminist associations and other civil society organisations, as defenders of women’s and children’s human rights, consider that the two initiatives mentioned will facilitate and therefore encourage cross-border surrogacy, based on a misleading interpretation of the best interests of the child, trampling on women’s rights, for the sole benefit of those who have no […]
The European Commission must take surrogacy into account in its work
Call to consider the issue of surrogacy from the women’s rights, and the rights of the child perspective. Letter sent from ICASM to European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen on 18/07/2022. The response, which is not very rcomforting, from the Directorate General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission is available and commented at […]
ICASM asked President Zelensky (Ukraine) to ban surrogacy
On the advice of our Ukrainian member organisation, Democracy Center, we wrote to President Zelensky asking him to consider banning surrogacuy as the next step after having ratified the Istanbul Convention. International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motrherhood To the attention of […]
ICASM NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2022
First of all we wish you a very happy new year 2022. In this 2022 newsletter, we will tell you about : the release of the book on surrogacy in English surrogacy as seen from Latin America the Verona Principles that ICASM is fighting and we will invite you to a webinar organised by PDF […]