Paris, 12 November 2025 Co-operation Unit Gender Equality Division DGII: Directorate General of Democracy and Human Dignity Council of Europe Avenue de l’Europe, F-67075 Strasbourg Cedex, France Dear Members of the Gender Equality Division, On behalf of the International Coalition for the Abolition of Surrogacy (ICAMS)—a network of 50 member organisations across 17 countries […]
Cases of human trafficking related to surrogacy in European Union
On the occasion of the revision of the Directive Against Trafficking in Human Beings by the rapporteurs RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia and Björk Malin, we spoke to RODRÍGUEZ PALOP Eugenia’s parliamentary assistant. Our aim is to include surrogacy in this revision as a form of exploitation and as part of European human trafficking. She asked us […]
European amendment to recognise surrogacy as a form of trafficking
As part of the revision of Directive 2011/36/EU on preventing and combating trafficking in human beings at European level, we are calling for surrogacy to be included and recognised as a form of exploitation (sexual and reproductive) to be taken into account in trafficking in human beings. This change would make it possible to recognise […]
Joint statement on surrogacy
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, […]
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 […]
Request to the political parties, candidates in the 2019 European elections
Do not regulate surrogacy but abolish it As European elections are due next months, surrogacy is at stake. The Colition for the Abolition of surrogate motherhood adresses the political parties, candidates to the european elections to ask them to back up the idea of the abolition of surrogacy. Admittedly, the parliament has condemned the practice […]