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 […]
The VERONA PRINCIPLES are a new attempt to organise surrogacy globally
DETAILED ANALYSIS OF THE VERONA PRINCIPLES FROM A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE Access to the synthesis HERE Content Principle 1: Human dignity Principles 2 to 5: fundamental rights of the child Principle 6: The best interests of the child Principle 7: Surrogate consent Principle 8: Consent of the intended parent(s) Principle 9: Consent of persons providing human […]
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 […]
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, […]
Surrogacy: Abolish it, this is the real political courage!
The Hague Conference on Private International Law carries on its work on the international regulation of surrogacy. The working group devoted to this “legislative project” is meeting again from 12 to 16 October 2020. The organisation refrains from taking sides for or against the practice, while stating that since the practice exists, its consequences should […]