Surrogacy is a practice that jeopardizes the health and lives of surrogate mothers. But this aspect is systematically ignored. This webinar will illustrate this hidden reality. Thursday July 1st. 2018 – 6 pm (french time) Register HERE Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram is a member of the Collective for the Respect of the Person (CoRP) and co-president […]
Manifesto against egg “donation”
This manifesto is issued on the initiative of the Asturian Feminist Association (Spain) Rapiegas CIAMS supports this action. The link for the signature of this Manifesto is accessible at the end of the document. WE ARE NOT COMMODITIES FOR THE REPRODUCTIVE INDUSTRY, WE ARE PEOPLE! STOP THE RECRUITMENT OF “DONORS” FOR THE REPRODUCTIVE […]
THE “GLOBAL BUSINESS” THAT THE HAGUE CONFERENCE IS TRYING TO LEGALISE
Press release THE “GLOBAL BUSINESS” THAT THE HAGUE CONFERENCE IS TRYING TO LEGALISE: THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND THE BUYING AND SELLING OF NEWBORNS Berta O. García @Omnia_Somnia Co-Chair of the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ICASM) The Hague Conference on Private International Law has been working for more […]
Newsletter February 2021
Here is the Newsletter Newsletter January-February 2021
Reproductive exploitation – Newsletter december 2020 (part 2)
Among actions, events and news, information on surrogacy is very rich at the end of the year. This newsletter has therefore been divided into two episodes: episode 1 already published, Actions; episode 2 that follows, News. But first of all it is important to wish you a very happy holiday season. The end of the […]
Actions against reproductive exploitation – Newsletter December 2020- part 1
New development, the issue of surrogacy was widely discussed on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. For us, this is truly a medical violence inflicted on women, not to treat them because they are in good health, but for the purpose of reproductive exploitation. We are also extremely pleased with the […]
280 Women’s Rights Organisations, 3300 signatories from 56 countries are calling for a ban on trade with surrogacy motherhood
Nov 25, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the women’s movement call for a global ban on trade with women as surrogate mothers. The background of the Call is an upcoming International Convention by the Hague Conference on Private Law (HCCH) to regulate international surrogacy arrangements. Conventions of the […]
Call to stop the draft international regulation of surrogacy launched by the Hague Conference on Private International Law
The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is working to define surrogacy in an international instrument. This is a real blank cheque to the globalized surrogacy trade in the mostly poor countries of the world, and we must urgently oppose it. The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is an intergovernmental organisation with […]
LATIN AMERICAN MANIFESTO AGAINST REPRODUCTIVE EXPLOITATION
Nearly 100 feminist organisations from all over Latin America (South, Central and Caribbean) associated with ICASM/CIAMS are launching the FIRST LATIN AMERICAN MANIFESTO AGAINST REPRODUCTIVE EXPLOITATION (surrogacy) in response to attempts to open up surrogacy in Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico. The undersigned individuals, collectives and feminist and abolitionist organisations are organising to oppose […]
UPDATE ON THE WORK OF THE HAGUE CONFERENCE ON PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (surrogacy)
The Hague Conference on Private International Law: definition The Hague Conference has 85 State Members, including the European Union Its aim “The Hague Conference aims to work for the progressive unification of the rules of private international law”. It does so by means of international conventions and optional protocols. Definition: “The convention: agreement between States, […]