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. […]
ICASM Newsletter – June 2023
UN. CONTACT WITH THE RAPPORTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Following the event organised by ICAMS in New York in March 2023 (CSW67), we sent a statement to all UN Rapporteurs and Agencies involved in one way or another with the issue of surrogacy, highlighting the extent to which surrogacy undermines women’s rights. In response, the […]
ICASM – Newsletter – April 2023
NEW DEBATE IN SPAIN ON SURROGACY AND ABORTION The reform of the Law on Sexual Health and Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy recognizes surrogacy as a form of violence against women and a serious violation of our reproductive rights, reiterating the prohibition of this practice in Spain and also prohibiting any advertising by agencies that profit […]
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 […]
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 […]