On July 23rd, 2024, in collaboration with our 50 affiliated organizations across 15 countries, we submitted a joint letter to the UNFPA expressing our firm opposition to their definition of surrogate motherhood. Dear Dr. Natalia Kanem, Executive Director Dear UNFPA Executive Board Members, We are writing to express our concerns about the portrayal of […]
Newsletter – may 2024
Belgium Women against surrogacy Belgium has been very active in countering the Belgian Bioethics Advisory Committee’s opinion no. 86 in favour of opening up to surrogacy. Their petition has collected more than 1,000 signatures, and is still gathering more. The conference they organised in Brussels in collaboration with ICASM and the Université des Femmes was […]
ICASM Newsletter – February 2024
Petition Surrogate motherhood: Rejection of Opinion No. 86 of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics On April 17, 2023, in response to Minister Frank Vandenbroucke, the Belgian Bioethics Advisory Committee issued opinion no. 86 on surrogacy (GPA). We strongly oppose this opinion, biased in favor of surrogacy legalization, ignoring women’s and children’s rights. Choose women’s […]
Ireland. June 2024. The surrogacy Bill passed
Empty Chambers, Full Force: Surrogacy Bill Passes Under Irish Radar Press release 20 june 2024 We, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood (ICASM), as feminist defenders of women’s, children’s, and human rights, consider that the Irish Assisted Human Reproduction Bill, as voted, is incompatible with European ideals of human dignity and the […]
Fact sheet: Surrogacy and violence against women
First of all, we should define what surrogacy is in order to clarify that it’s social practice and not a medical technique. Surrogacy is the practice of recruiting, with or without payment, a woman to carry one or more children, whether or not conceived with her own eggs, with the aim of giving them to […]
Any form of surrogacy is incompatible with international legal instruments.
This article explains how surrogacy violates all the international treaties and the very concepts of universal human right DIGNITY The “Charter of the United Nations”[1] reaffirms faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women. The “Universal Declaration of Human Rights”[2] […]
YES, from a feminist perspective, reproductive surrogacy is human trafficking
Press Release Revision of the European Directive on the Prevention of Trafficking in Human Beings 30 April 2024 The Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings, and protecting victims is a necessary and useful text, but it is not enough. Important additions […]
Against the advisory Opinion No. 86 of the Belgian Consultative Bioethics Committee
This analysis was carried out jointly by ICASM, the Université des Femmes and Women against Surrogacy Belgium To counter this shameful opinion, sign this petition which is promoted by fourteen women’s organizations, most of which are active in Belgium. On April 17, 2023, the Belgian Bioethics Committee issued an advisory Opinion No. 86 […]
ICASM Newsletter – November 2023
Strength in Numbers: Petition Success Against Hague Conference Appreciation goes out to the 8200 individuals (500 organizations) who signed the petitions opposing the Hague Conference’s initiatives regarding “parentage in the context of surrogacy.” The most recent petition garnered an additional 1,400 signatures on top of the previous ones. Together, these petitions represent a collective effort […]
ICASM Newsletter – October 2023
SIGN THE CALL TO STOP ALL ATTEMPTS TO ORGANIZE SURROGACY Together with more than 60 feminist and human rights organisations, ICASM has launched an urgent petition calling on the Hague Conference to reject proposed regulations that would expand commercial surrogacy globally. As an organization, ICASM sees surrogacy as a violation of human rights and feminist principles. […]