Press Releases

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• Lawsuits ahead!; sensitivity proven lost by circumcised men
  19 March 2007

• $25 Million Circumcision Case Begins
  31 July 2003

• Wrongful circumcision case filed
  11 July 2003

• Issued in Response to USAID
  01 May 2003

• NOCIRC-ARC Press Release Re Stowell Case
  29 Apr 2003

• Flatt v. Kantak
  01 August 2002

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• "Circumcision Case to Proceed to Trial"
  29 July 2002

  PRNet graciously distributed ARC's press release on July 29, 2002 entitled "Circumcision Case to Proceed to Trial." This press release was picked up and published by Men's News Daily. See www.mensnewsdaily.com/stories/newswire080102a.htm.

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• "United Nations Criticized for Sex Discrimination Against Males"
  15 August 2002

  PRNet (then called FaxNet) graciously distributed ARC's press release on August 15, 2001 entitled "United Nations Criticized for Sex Discrimination Against Males."This press release was picked up and published by Mensactivism.Org, NoSpank.Net, BirthLove.Com, and Everyman, October/November 2001, p. 57.

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• "Boy Wins $1.4 Million for Circumcision as Procedure Becomes Increasingly Risky for Physicians to Perform"
  10 June 2002

  PRNet (then called FaxNet) again gave a helping hand with ARC's press release on June 10, 2001 entitled "Boy Wins $1.4 Million for Circumcision as Procedure Becomes Increasingly Risky for Physicians to Perform." This press release led to an interview with the New York Times and was picked up and published by the Compleat Mother (Fall 2001 issue), Everyman, December 2001/January 2002, p. 54, and the East African Standard (Kenya). See www.eastandard.net/eahome/story310720010012.htm.

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• Man Sues for Being Circumcised as an Infant
  20 December 2001

• Human Rights Organization Cautions All New Jersey Hospitals and Urologists of Potential Liability for Medically Unwarranted Circumcision
  27 October 2001

• UN Presentation
  15 August 2001

• Swedish Law
  6 August 2001

• Boy Wins $1.4 Million for Circumcision as Procedure Becomes Increasingly Risky for Physicians to Perform
  10 June 2001

• Circumcision: Doctors Fail to Obtain Valid Consent
  April 2001

• Circumcision: Doctors Liable for Criminal Assault
  09 April 2000

• Press Release Regarding Shane Peterson's Victory in Australian Circumcision Case
  2000

• Circumcision: Doctors are Betraying Children
  01 March 1999