UNICEF and CHIP: Briefing note on children’s rights and surrogacy
UNICEF and Child Identity Protection have identified key considerations for children’s rights and surrogacy in a briefing note launched this month. It states that “regardless of individual State positions on surrogacy, all States have a duty to protect the human rights of all children born through surrogacy without discrimination, including ensuring appropriate legal and regulatory frameworks exist at the national level to protect and promote their rights.” Child Identity Protection stresses the importance of safeguarding all of children’s rights, including their right to identity, whenever surrogacy occurs. The note recommends among other things that “civil registration and vital statistics systems include and preserve identity information relating to each child born through surrogacy. (…) Specifically, the identity of surrogate mothers and donor(s) should be known.”
Available at : https://www.unicef.org/media/115331/file
