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 […]
At the Hague 13 11 2023. ICASM and Allies Challenged HCCH’s Global Surrogacy Project
Speeches by the organisations taking part in the rally in The Hague on 13 11 2023 Access to the speeches here (PDF document) : speeches for HCCH Access the video recording of the rally https://youtu.be/goXhO1BaGMY Critiques of the HCCH’s potential role in legitimizing and regulating surrogacy. Organizations speeches from: ICASM – CIAMS International Coalition […]
Some points against regulation/harmonisation of surrogacy by the Hague Conference on Private International Law
by Stoppt Leihmutterschaft – Austria – Felix Surrogacy and international law Opinion on the mandate and negotiations of the Expert and Working Group of the General Affairs and Policy Council of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) Background: From 2016-2022, an expert group of the HCCH met to examine the possibility of further […]
CALL TO STOP ALL ATTEMPS TO ORGANIZE REPRODUCTIVE SURROGACY
Link to sign the petition Click HERE Context Since 2010, the Hague Conference on Private International Law has been working on a draft international convention dealing with filiation in the context of reproductive surrogacy, in order to guarantee the effects of cross-border surrogacy for those who have recourse to it. The outcome of this work, […]
Seven points against surrogacy
In the context of the CSW67 on “Surrogacy a violation of human rights, a violence against women“, a conference led by CIAMS, we sent these seven points to members of UN agencies and institutions that represent and promote respect for human rights and are concerned by surrogacy. These points denounce the forms of violence and […]
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 […]
Call on CEDAW to recognise surrogacy as a violence against women
As part of our contacts with members of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), we sent this concept note. After outlining the sexual and economic exploitation of women and the violence perpetrated by the surrogacy industry, the concept note calls for an international policy aimed at abolishing surrogacy because of […]
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, […]
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 […]