While few countries in the world have legalised surrogacy, all are concerned because women are asked to be surrogate mothers or because their nationals travel abroad to have a child through surrogacy.
Faced with this global challenge, the Declaration of Casablanca for the universal abolition of surrogacy, signed by experts from all around the world, calls on governments to move beyond resignation, condemn surrogacy, take concrete measures to put an end to this trade and, especially, commit to an international Convention to promote a global context of refusal of surrogacy, likely to draw many countries into this virtuous wake.
The “Casablanca Declaration” is thus an international group of experts, researchers and practitioners, lawyers, doctors, psychologists : working for a long time on the subject of surrogacy, they address together States and international organizations to put at their disposal their multidisciplinary and international expertise to support, encourage, instigate political, legal and diplomatic steps with a view to the abolition of surrogacy in the world and, in particular, the adoption of an international Convention for the universal abolition of surrogacy.
Casablanca Declaration produce and disseminate international, multidisciplinary expertise, in order to inform public decision-makers, professionals and the general public about the reality of surrogacy.
Press release October 16, 2024 (Italian below) Today, Italy made history by passing its new law on surrogacy. The new law makes surrogacy a universal
Press release October 15, 2024 Casablanca Declaration submitted a joint stakeholders report with ADF International for the 49th Session of the Human Rights Council’s Universal
Press release 09.09.2024 On Sunday 8 September, 8 Chilean MPs from 8 different parties, from the left, centre and right, signed a public letter
The Declaration and the proposal for an international Convention have been made public during an expert seminar on March 3 in Casablanca, Marocco.
The International Conference for the Universal Abolition of surrogacy was held in Rome on 5th and 6th April 2024, with the aim of being a decisive step towards the advent of an international treaty.
Declaration spokesperson, born from surrogacy
Coordinator, Doctor in law
of the Declaration of Casablanca