Policy Related Work
Policy Report Mapping Global Surrogacy: Care Brokers and the Politics of Supply
In 2025 I authored a global report on surrogacy, “Mapping Global Surrogacy: Care Brokers and the Politics of Supply”. The report situates surrogacy within the wider global fertility industry, an industry transformed by assisted reproductive technologies that have fragmented reproduction into transnational, outsourced services shaped by cost differentials, legal restrictions, and global inequality. Rather than understanding surrogacy primarily as a response to reproductive “need,” I argue that the global surrogacy market is fundamentally supply-driven, sustained by legal vacuums and the strategic work of intermediaries or “care brokers” who enable its continual relocation across borders. As countries with restrictive laws debate reform, this analysis shows that prohibitions rarely halt participation; instead, they displace reproductive labour to less regulated contexts, effectively outsourcing ethical and social dilemmas elsewhere. The report is available for download at https://www.boell.de/en/2025/11/18/mapping-global-surrogacy
International expert consulatation on COVID-19 Advisory On International Surrogacy Arrangements, Surrogacy 360, July 2020. Read more
Expert Africa Consultation on Draft Principles on Protection of Rights of Child within Surrogacy, General Secretariat, International Social Service, Geneva, (hosted by UWC), Aug 2019
Expert (Online) Consultation on Global Surrogacy Laws, Fem Just New York, Centre for Reproductive Rights, Feb 2019
Expert Group Meeting on Surrogacy and Human Rights, UNICEF, UNFPA & WHO, Bangkok, 1-2 November, 2018
Global Egg flows Pande and De Jong 2018, Rand and Reproductive Bodies Project
Interdisciplinary convening on gestational surrogacy policy, Hosted by Reproductive Health Matters and Yale Law School, London, Oct 2018
Activist-Academic dialogue on reproductive extractions: Women and Birth in the Global South, In Collaboration with Department of Sociology, African Gender Institute and Reproductive Justice Coalition, Cape Town, May 2017
Global Egg Flows: Pande and Moll 2017. Rand and Reproduction Project.
Policy -related International Workshop on Gamete Donation, UNISA, Pretoria, May 2015 Plenary Speaker, Brocher Summer Academy on Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Geneva, June 2015
Expert Panel on Global Surrogacy, International Forum on Intercountry Adoption and Global Surrogacy, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, August 2014
Iziko SA Museum, August 2010, Iziko Museums of Cape Town, Women’s Chain of Power in a Globalizing World, Women’s Empowerment Conference
Sama, Resource Group for Women & Health, New Delhi India, 2010, International Consultation workshop “Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building”
Riksteatern, National Theatre Company of Sweden, September 2012
Public debate on International Surrogacy Laws (with Swedish social commentator Kajsa Ekman)
2010 – 2012 CONSULTANT FOR CREATING A POLICY DOCUMENT ON MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKER RIGHTS IN LEBANON
Output: A 50-page Advocacy and Policy document for the Government of Lebanon “I came here for work”: Migrant Domestic work and the Sponsorship system in Lebanon, 2011, Beirut: Voices International
Local organizations and migrant domestic worker communities are using this document to advocate for their own rights as workers (Copy of report available from author)
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Info Note 1 – Click here to view
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Info Note 2 – Click here to view
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Info Note 3 – Click here to view
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Info Note 4 – Click here to view
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon Info Note 5 – Click here to view
Calls for better protection of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon – Click here to view