Join Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM), the Center for Reproductive Rights, Just Futures Collaborative, the Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA) and the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice for the webinar, Surrogacy and Bodily Autonomy as a matter of sexual and reproductive justice: Rights and evidence based perspectives.

This event situates surrogacy within the wider framework of sexual and reproductive justice, human rights, and bodily autonomy.

The webinar will explore human-rights approaches to surrogacy, the effects of criminalization and prohibition, and evidence-informed regulatory and feminist perspectives. The discussion will show how surrogacy can be grounded in autonomy, dignity, equality, and protection from exploitation.

Guided by an intersectional lens, the webinar will examine how gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, migration, economic inequality, and labour rights shape surrogacy. Participants will also consider evidence on how restrictive frameworks undermine rights and discuss strategies for coalition-building and advocacy across movements.

MODERATOR

Eszter Kismödi | Chief Executive of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

PANELLISTS

Eng Chandy | Executive Director of Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC)

Sarojini Nadimpally | Co-founder of Sama Resource Group for Women and Health

Nerima Were | Legal Director at The Initiative for Strategic Litigation in Africa (ISLA)

Verónica Esparza | Research Coordinator, Grupo de Información en Reproducción Elegida (GIRE)

Subha Wijesiriwardena | Co-director of Just Futures Collaborative