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- Surrogacy in Ireland : LETTER TO MINISTER CARROLL MACNEILL 27 May 2025 Dear Minister Carroll MacNeill, As an international Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood, we have been in contact with you via the submission of our coalition in the Committee on surrogacy in May 2022. We are now pleased about the direction being taken by Ireland on this matter, especially in light of the Health… Lire la suite
- To the members of The Hague Working Group on Parentage in the context of surrogacy (2025) 3 April 2025 The "Parentage in the context of surrogacy" project is coming to an end. At this last meeting of the Working Group, ICAMS, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogacy, with its fifty member organisations on three continents, would like to address you one last time. In its early stages, the draft convention you… Lire la suite
- ICASM support Taiwan feminists fighting against surrogacy 7 December 2024 As an international feminist coalition for the abolition of surrogate motherhood, we fully support the action of the Taiwan Women's Link against the attempt to open up Taiwan to surrogacy. We join them in protesting against this bill and the ongoing amendments. Surrogacy commodifies women and children, it cares for no one, neither the… Lire la suite
- For the attention of the members of the HCCH Parentage / Surrogacy Project Working Group. 4 November 2024 4 November 2024 ICAMS calls on the members of the HCCH working group at each session For the attention of the members of the HCCH Parentage / Surrogacy Project Working Group Paris, 4 November 2024 Dear Ladies and Gentlemen For this 3rd meeting of the Working Group on the Project on Parentage, including that linked… Lire la suite
- For the attention of the members of the HCCH Working Group on Parentage/Surrogacy Project. 8 April 2024 4 November 2024 To the Members of the Working group - project on filiation /surrogacy arrangements HCCH Paris, the 8th of April 2024 Dear Madam / Sir, The working group for the project on filiation, including that relating to international surrogacy arrangements, is meeting for the second time today. As at the beginning of your work, we ask… Lire la suite
- French Background to the creation in 2018 of ICASM, the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood 8 October 2024 From 1985 to 1990. The emergence of New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) sparked concerns and alarm among French feminist researchers.Simultaneously, associations dedicated to organizing surrogacy in France were established. These associations were subsequently banned (1988 and 1989), while case law (1991) and legislation (1994) reaffirmed France's fundamental principles of the non-availability and non-patrimoniality of the… Lire la suite