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Written declaration No. 522 | Doc. 12934 | 04 July 2012
Surrogate motherhood
Considering that the practice of surrogate motherhood implies a contract on the unborn child and the exploitation of a woman’s womb, and that it voluntarily dissociates motherhood and manipulates filiation;
Considering :
The undersigned members of the Parliamentary Assembly affirm that surrogate motherhood is incompatible with the dignity of the women and children concerned and is a violation of their fundamental rights.
- the Charter of the United Nations;
- the Preamble and Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR);
- the Preamble of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR);
- the Convention against Torture (Article 16);
- the International Criminal Court Statute (Article 7);
- the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (Article 6);
- the Protocol to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (Article 3) and the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (Article 4);
- the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Dignity of the Human Being with regard to the application of Biology and Medicine: Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (Oviedo Convention) (Article 21);
- the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) (Article 3);
- the CRC Optional Protocol on the sale of children (Article 2a);
- the Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (ILO Convention 182) (Article 3);
- the Convention on Intercountry Adoption (Articles 4 and 32) ;
- the European Convention on the Adoption of Children (Revised) (Articles 5 and 17);
- Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1443 (2000) on International Adoption: Respecting Children’s Rights,