Every 30 July, the United Nations marks the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Statements are issued, reports are published, and one industry is reliably absent from all of them. Since 2024, European and international laws have named surrogacy-related exploitation as a form of human trafficking. Almost no member state has acted as though it […]
Directive (EU) 2024/1712: 19 of 27 Member States Are Not Ready – SHADOW REPORT
Today, July 15th 2026, is the deadline for Member States to transpose the first EU instrument recognising the exploitation of surrogacy as human trafficking. ICASM publishes its shadow report. Since July 14th 2024, EU law has recognised the exploitation of surrogacy as a form of human trafficking. Directive (EU) 2024/1712 gave Member States two years […]