This written declaration commits only those who have signed it.
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 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,
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.