OBJECTIVE
The aim of the conference for the universal abolition of surrogate motherhood is to bring together politicians from all over Europe as well as feminist and human rights organizations, and researchers from various fields, in order to throw light on and fight against the unjust practice of surrogacy, which infringes on fundamental human rights.
The participants
- Will provide a comprehensive review of the practice of surrogacy in today’s world, and examine this global trafficking of women and newborn children,
- Will appeal to European governments to act against surrogacy – an alienating practice based on sexist exploitation.
ORGANIZING NGOs
CADAC : Coordination of Associations for the right to abortion and contraceptives – Maya Surduts et Nora Tenenbaum
CLF : coordination of lesbians in France – Jocelyne Fildard et Catherine Morin Le Sechs
CoRP : group for the respect for the human person – Sylviane Agacinski
CONFERENCE FOR THE UNIVERSAL ABOLITION OF SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD
National assembly
Tuesday 2nd february 2016
4.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Victor Hugo Room
101 rue de l’Université – PARIS – FRANCE
- Jocelyne FILDARD (France) Co-chairperson of the CLF
- Maya SURDUTS, (France) Representative of the CADAC
- Sylviane AGACINSKI (France) Philosopher, author of Corps en miettes (Paris, 2013)
- Nora TENENBAUM (France) Representative of the CADAC
- Geneviève AZAM (France) Economist, member of the scientific board of ATTAC, author of Osons rester humain. Les impasses de la toute-puissance (Paris, 2015)
- Regula STAEMPFLI (Belgium) Political analyst, expert for the European Commission
- Sheela SARAVANAN (Germany and India) Senior researcher in geography at the Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, specialist of gender issues (violence against women, surrogacy, female infanticide) in South Asia
- Jean-Daniel RAINHORN (Switzerland) Medical doctor, editor of New Cannibal Markets: Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body (Paris, 2015)
- Eva Maria BACHINGER (Austria) Journalist, author of Kind auf Bestellung (Vienna, 2015)
- Kajsa EKIS EKMAN (Sweden) Journalist, activist, author of Being and Being Bought, Prostitution, Surrogacy and the Split Self (North Melbourne, 2014)
- René FRYDMAN (France) Gynaecologist and obstetrician
- Julie BINDEL (Great Britain) journalist and political activist, co-founder of Justice for Women, which opposes violence against women
- Opening address by Laurence Dumont, Vice-President of the French Parliament
- Presentation of the organizing associations: CADAC, CLF and CoRP
Julie Bindel
Vers l'abolition de la GPA 