Giorgio Mazzoli

Director of UN Advocacy, @ADFIntl | Co-Chair, NGO Family Committee @UNGeneva | Advancing the right to live and speak the truth so that all might be free 🕊️

[Giorgio Mazzoli @GiorgioMazzoli]

New handle, same mission: you'll now find me at @GiorgioMazzoli.

Thank you for following along!

[Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls @UNSRVAW]

Societies cannot on one hand accept that “wombs can be rented” like some standalone “service” delinked from the mother’s body and motherhood; and accept that children can be commissioned and bought, and on the other hand be outraged by stories like these. The horrific but totally preventable situation of this child, is but a consequential, logical and perfectly expected outcome of normalizing and legalizing #surrogacy.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

This story is part of just the handful of horror stories that we become aware of as most go unnoticed. We will never know the true scale of exploitation and suffering in surrogacy arrangements.

This is why surrogacy must be abolished in all its forms and we must undercut demand that keeps this harmful industry alive by criminalizing the commissioning of children through surrogacy.

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

This story is horrifying. Even worse is the fact that it’s not an isolated one. @ADFLegal has had several clients with similar experiences.

Surrogacy exploits women, commodifies children, and leads to horrors like forced abortion.

[The Catholic Herald @CatholicHerald]

The international community must respond to the growing international consensus that surrogacy exploits women, commodifies children and requires a coordinated global response.

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ICYMI: A coalition of States led by Italy and Chile has announced a political declaration calling for an international moratorium on surrogacy—a landmark step toward the abolition of the practice. I had the honour of moderating the high-level launch event during #HRC62. 🧵

[Giorgio Mazzoli @GiorgioMazzoli]

The declaration is open to support from all States, but mobilizing behind it takes more than governments.

International institutions, parliamentarians, civil society, and the media have a critical role to play. @ADFIntl stands ready to do its part.

Onward, together!

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The declaration identifies surrogacy as a practice that exploits women’s reproductive capacities and commodifies human life, harming children by deliberately separating them from the women who carried and gave birth to them.

[UN Special Procedures @UN_SPExperts]

#Nigeria: UN experts alarmed by violations against women and girls from religious minority communities. “Testimonies paint a horrifying picture of fear, trauma, coercion & abandonment - survivors must not be left without protection, justice & support.”

https://t.co/Cz5TqID8zj

[Giorgio Mazzoli @GiorgioMazzoli]

Today’s #GigglevTickle verdict exemplifies the dire human rights consequences of distorting terms like “sex” in both domestic and international law: biological reality is trivialised, single-sex spaces compromised, and women’s rights eroded.

The High Court must overturn the Full Federal Court decision and restore truth to the law.

[Stephanie Bastiaan @stephbastiaan]

The Full Federal Court has handed down its judgement in Giggle v Tickle.

In a shock to women across the country - Sall Grover not only lost her appeal, the Court set aside the original finding of indirect discrimination and replaced it with direct discrimination, upholding Tickle's cross-appeal.

The damages were doubled from $10,000 to $20,000.

It’s important to note the Court expressly said it was only applying the Sex Discrimination Act as it is written- it is "not empowered to give effect to its own view" about whether that law is desirable.

In 2013, @JuliaGillard’s @AustralianLabor government amended the Sex Discrimination Act- stripping the meaning out of "man" and "woman" and adding gender identity as a protected attribute to be pitted against biological sex.

Today's outcome is proof of what those amendments have done: women are left with no meaningful rights or recognition under the Sex Discrimination Act - a bitter irony, given that protecting women was the very purpose of the Act under our commitment to CEDAW.

In my opinion, this is a verdict on the law, not on Sall. The judges found that the law - as that government amended it - left them no other conclusion.

These amendments must be repealed.
The Sex Discrimination Act must once again recognise biological reality and protect women's right to single-sex spaces.

What a dark and devastating day for Australian women and girls.

#RepealTheSDA2013 #IStandWithSallGrover
#GigglevTickle
#Auspol

[Giorgio Mazzoli @GiorgioMazzoli]

After years of advocacy at the United Nations and beyond for the protection of the female category in sport, the @iocmedia announcement is a long-overdue victory for fairness, safety and biological reality.

The new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport confirms what science and common sense have always said: women’s sport must be reserved for females.

To those who spent years accusing us of “hate speech”—including certain UN officials and experts—for defending this exact principle: biology is not bigotry. Sex-based rights are human rights.

Thank you to the new IOC leadership for finally choosing evidence over ideology.

[IOC MEDIA @iocmedia]

The International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.

Read: https://t.co/QcU5IVxyTi

[ADF International @ADFIntl]

🚨BREAKING: Päivi Räsänen unanimously acquitted for her Bible tweet, but convicted of “hate speech” for a 20+ year-old church pamphlet

The conviction is under the “war crimes and crimes against humanity” section of Finland’s criminal code, alongside Bishop Juhana Pohjola.

[Giorgio Mazzoli @GiorgioMazzoli]

Yesterday @UN_CSW abandoned its historic tradition of consensus with the unprecedented adoption by vote of its Agreed Conclusions. This forced outcome does not advance revitalization and instead deepens polarization at a time of declining trust in multilateralism.

Our @ADFIntl team engaged constructively with Member State delegations over the past six weeks to forestall this widely anticipated and effectively predetermined course of action, including advocating for negotiations to continue until the final day of #CSW70 to resolve outstanding concerns in the document. We regret that the opportunity to reach an agreed outcome was not seized.

Consensus is not a procedural formality but the foundation on which the international community moves forward with shared purpose. A path back from this regression will only be possible if Member States recommit to the higher ground and rise above both partisan agendas and majoritarian tactics.

We will keep fighting for that higher ground, at the UN and before other international institutions.

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@PermanentM2025 @ADFIntl 📸 Credits: Courtesy of @HolySeeGeneva

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Yesterday's #HRC61 side event "Standing with Persecuted Christians - Defending the Faith and Christian Values" drew a full house at the Palais des Nations in Geneva! 🧵 1/

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@PermanentM2025 In a world where faith is increasingly targeted, @ADFIntl will continue to stand boldly alongside the persecuted in courtrooms, before international institutions, and everywhere—advocating for the right of every person to freely live out their religious beliefs. /🧵