{"id":692,"date":"2023-07-18T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/?p=692"},"modified":"2024-03-07T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:22:11","slug":"women-deliver-conference-2023-in-rwanda-what-about-surrogacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/declaration-surrogacy-casablanca.org\/fr\/women-deliver-conference-2023-in-rwanda-what-about-surrogacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Deliver Conference 2023 in Rwanda: what about surrogacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(French and Spanish version below)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press release of July, 18, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No credible women’s cause as long as complacency with surrogacy lasts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Women Deliver 2023 Conference (WD2023)<\/u><\/a> is currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda from July 17-20, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dedicated to the cause of women, this event is an opportunity to ask the world to raise awareness about surrogacy, for the advent of a world without surrogacy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the defense of women cannot be done without an effective fight against this practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why the Casablanca Declaration of March 3, 2023<\/strong> asks States to emerge from the resignation to act against surrogacy in all its modalities, whether remunerated or not, and to adopt legal measures to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 prohibit surrogacy on their territory<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 punish the intermediaries between the surrogate mothers and the orderers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 prosecute their nationals who have recourse to a surrogate mother<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 act in favor of a legal instrument bearing global prohibition of  surrogacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Casablanca, during the international seminar of experts which made the Casablanca Declaration public, Sonnie EKWOWUSI, Nigerian, Lawyer, Chairman of the Human and Constitutional Rights Committee of the African Bar Association (AFBA), denounced the pressure taken on States to impose surrogacy, particularly in Africa<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet me say that countries that are forcing surrogacy in another countries are wrong in doing that, especially in Africa\u2019s countries where we have traditional values. Every country would grow with own values and with own laws\u2026. no country has the right to force other countries to embrace surrogacy.\u201d (video<\/u><\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In particular, we ask the women who will speak during the plenary session to bring the message to the world for the universal abolition of surrogacy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n