Paris, May 22, 2025
On the occasion of the 2nd Pan-African Conference on Family Values, delegations of NGOs from the African continent met in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 12 to 17, 2025.
The Casablanca Declaration is delighted that, among the projects to promote African families, the need to abolish surrogacy was one of the priority topics. Indeed, the surrogacy market is expanding rapidly worldwide and represents a real threat to the stability of African families, as Sheila Mukami, professor of philosophy and signatory of the Casablanca Declaration, pointed out at the event.
The growth of this market is the consequence of poverty, inequality, lack of social and professional opportunities, and insufficient state protection. This makes African women an easy target for this form of reproductive exploitation. This market is contrary to human dignity: it reduces women to their reproductive capacity and makes the child the object of a transaction.
The second Pan-African Conference seeks to propose new public policies and information campaigns aimed at protecting women and children against all forms of exploitation and trafficking.
To this end, the delegations meeting in Nairobi have pledged, in an official communiqué, to promote the Casablanca Declaration for the universal abolition of surrogacy among their governments. As the text underlines, this global market, which can be likened to human trafficking and which will reach 201 billion dollars in 2034 according to Global Market Insights, requires an urgent, coordinated response from the international community to draw up a treaty to abolish the practice.
Bernard Garcia, executive director of the Casablanca Declaration, with Mr. Joseph Mogosi Motari, Principal Secretary for Social Protection and Senior Citizen Affairs of Kenya.
The Casablanca Declaration welcomes the commitment of African NGOs to the universal abolition of surrogate motherhood.
Press contact: Bernard Garcia, Executive Director of the Casablanca Declaration, WhatsApp: +33 (0) 6 58 43 69 71
