Criticism of the Hague Conference approach: Protocol “For the Recognition of Legal Parentage Established as a Result of an International Surrogacy Contract”

Despite the human rights violations involved in surrogacy, the decision to persevere for more than a decade in creating an international instrument to organise this practice is worrying. We condemn the decision to follow this path, instead of really fighting for the rights of children and women who pay a high price for this misogynistic […]

ANALYSIS OF THE HAGUE PROTOCOL “FOR THE RECOGNITION OF LEGAL PARENTAGE ESTABLISHED FOLLOWING AN INTERNATIONAL SURROGACY CONTRACT”

The Hague Conference on private international law has been working on the issue of surrogacy since 2001. Although aware of the harms of surrogacy, which she describes as a globalized market, she perseveres in an approach that, in the long term, will socially legitimize its practice, reducing in the eyes of public opinion women to […]

FEMINIST CRITICAL DOCUMENT ON THE VERONA PRINCIPLES

  It is worth paying attention to two initiatives that, under an alleged concern for the rights of children born through surrogacy, aim at regulating cross border surrogacy. Feminist critique of the Verona Principles The detailed analysis if the Verona Principles is available HERE Surrogate motherhood is a social practice that consists of recruiting a […]

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 […]

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