One would think this is from @MargaretAtwood fiction. But no, this is contemporary #Europe where babies (sex, colour, ethnicity, of "customer's" choice) are for sale.
This is despicable. NO ONE has a "human right" to babies. Babies are not commodities. Women are not "gestators"
@EuropeanWomen has adopted several emergency motions condemning #surrogacy as a violation of women's human rights that must be stopped and since 2014 has had a number of actions highlighting this form of #VAW
In 2020 we published "SURROGACY: Globalised Reproductive Exploitation of Women and Girls":
"surrogacy..must be prohibited on the basis of protecting the principles of human dignity, non-commercialisation of human body and the interests of the child."bit.ly/3qUtGTe
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As a migrant woman survivor of human trafficking, @ToMalaika calls for holistic services and survivor-based approaches when #AssistingTraffickedWomen. "We cannot correctly assist trafficked women if we don't put survivors at the center of integration and assistance services".
@MyriaVass "We shouldn't touch the Palermo Protocol nor the @coe Convention. In fact, we need correct implementation of Directives in Europe. We need to complement the current EU framework and criminalise the demand for sexual exploitation #EndDemand, as soon as possible.