For Once, UN Report Gets It Right: Surrogacy Is Violence, by Hélène de Lauzun

By Hélène de Lauzun, The European Conservative, August 28, 2025

Hélène de Lauzun is the Paris correspondent for europeanconservative.com. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Paris. She taught French literature and civilization at Harvard and received a Ph.D. in History from the Sorbonne. She is the author of Histoire de l’Autriche (Perrin, 2021).

In July, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, presented a report stating that “the practice of surrogacy is characterised by exploitation and violence against women and children, including girls”.

This is the first time that an international statement has been made on this sensitive subject in such unequivocal terms.

The Casablanca Declaration, an international organisation bringing together associations and experts campaigning for the abolition of surrogacy worldwide, welcomed the report through its spokesman, Olivia Maurel, who was herself born through surrogacy and has made its universal and definitive abolition her cause. She hailed “unprecedented recognition at the highest international level that surrogacy is not an act of love but a form of violence and exploitation.” ….

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