To Oksana Zholnovych, Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Copy to Ihor Klymenko Minister of Internal affairs – Montreuil, 01.11.2023 Dear Ms Oksana Zholnovych, We have the honour to draw your attention to an issue of great importance for the safety and health of women and children. This is the practice of […]
Letter to the members of the Irish Joint Committee on International Surrogacy
The Irish Joint Committee on International Surrogacy has been working fo 4 months and will finalize its recommandations on June 2022. Listening to their debates proves that nearly all the members and panelists are in favour of surrogacy, wether commercial or restricted. Senator Sharon Keogan tried to share her critical point of on surrogacy with […]
The evidence is clear: surrogacy is nothing but the sale of children and reproductive exploitation of women
PRESS RELEASE ICASM Paris, September 7, 2021 On 4 and 5 September 2021, the DESIR D’ENFANT trade fair was held in Paris: ICASM, supported by its organizations members, was there to oppose this practice, on the theme of the dystopia by Margaret Atwood : the handmaid’s tale. On display and in the workshops it […]
200 Women’s rights organisations call for a ban on surrogacy in Ukraine
Press release 2020-06-03 Women’s rights organisations call for a ban on surrogacy in Ukraine Recently international media have published shocking pictures from the Ukrainian surrogacy industry. Newborn babies in large numbers that cannot be picked up by foreign customers due to the countries’ closed borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. The situation has shed […]
Call to ban all forms of trade in children and women in the surrogacy industry in Ukraine
June 3, 2020 To the attention of Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, Call to ban all forms of trade in children and women in the surrogacy industry in Ukraine Dear mr. Zelensky, We, the undersigning organizations, have been made aware from international media of shocking pictures from one of the biggest […]
Letter to the President of Ukraine on the situation of children born by GPA and stranded in Ukraine
Mr. President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, Paris on May 11th, 2010 Mr. President, We have been alerted by the shocking pictures posted online by Biotexcom,, a clinic in Kyiv which offers assisted fertilization and surrogacy services to “intended parents” from all countries. Biotexcom has improvised a large nursery (called “maternal room” despite […]