Activities of Simona BALDASSARRE related to 2022/2049(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter - annual report 2022 (debate)
Amendments (1)
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Condemns all violence against women and children and notes the alarming increase in such violence worldwide, in particular during the COVID-19 crisis; welcomes the EU’s efforts, alongside those of its international partners, aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women and children; condemns the practice of surrogacy, which compromises human dignity, exploiting the woman's body and its reproductive functions, as well as considering the unborn child as an object; believes that the practice of surrogacy involving reproductive exploitation and the use of the human body for economic or other returns, particularly in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, should be prohibited and treated as serious violation of human rights;