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Rise in overseas surrogates ‘increases risk of stateless babies’

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Calls grow for global regulation as rising numbers of westerners use surrogates in countries with different laws

The rise in the use of surrogates abroad is leaving more babies at risk of becoming stateless, experts have said, amid growing calls for urgent global regulation of the practice.

The warning follows the suspension of a 15-year effort by The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) to establish a global surrogacy convention, which was paused due to divisions among member states.

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