Women’s and human rights organisations call on the European Commission and Parliament to include the crime of reproductive exploitation of women in all their legislative initiatives as violence against women and as trafficking in human beings. Access to the PDF document Surrogacy joint Statement final Forward By reproductive exploitation, we refer to: prohibition of abortion, […]
Criticism of the Hague Conference approach: Convention “For the Recognition of Legal Parentage Established as a Result of an International Surrogacy Contract”
Despite the human rights violations that surrogacy entails, the decision to persist for more than a decade in drafting an international instrument to regulate the practice is worrying. We condemn the decision to continue down this path instead of genuinely fighting for the rights of children and women who pay a high price for this […]
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 […]
The European Parliament has repeatedly condemned surrogate motherhood.
The European Parliament has repeatedly condemned surrogate motherhood. As a violation of human dignity in 2015; In the context of human trafficking, as a source of human rights violations in 2017; In 2021, from a commercial perspective and at the global level, due to the risks of exploitation and trafficking in human beings, its impact […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
ALERT SURROGACY : FRANCE COMPLICIT IN THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND THE SALE OF CHILDREN
PRESS RELEASE Paris, August 30, 2021 ALERT SURROGACY: FRANCE COMPLICIT IN THE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN AND THE SALE OF CHILDREN On 4 and 5 September 2021, in Paris, the “Désir d’enfant” trade fair will be held. Its stated aim is to provide information on the various possibilities of becoming parents. Surrogacy is one of […]
ICASM Intervention at the NGO CSW65 Virtual Forum 23 March 2021 -7 pm CET
Registration for the Parallel Event “Surrogacy: a violence against women from a feminist perspective”, 23 March 2021 at 7 PM CET (Madrid, Berlin, Paris Time)! 2 steps: Step 1. Create a profile on the virtual platform of the NGO CSW65 by registering for free – click HERE In the small square box, choose 1 instead […]