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Tortured Doctrines, Tortured Bodies: How Legal Fictions Help Justify and Perpetuate Male Circumcision and Other Inhumane Practices » 7/31/2010
“Tortured Doctrines, Tortured Bodies: How Legal Fictions Help Justify and Perpetuate Male Circumcision and Other Inhumane Practices...
A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting » 1/1/2009
J. Steven Svoboda and Robert Darby “A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting” A...
A Treatise from the Trenches: Why Are Circumcision Lawsuits So Hard to Win? » 1/1/2009
J. Steven Svoboda A Treatise from the Trenches: Why Are Circumcision Lawsuits So Hard to Win? from Circumcision and Human Rights by...
My Circumcision Story As Told to J. Steven Svoboda » 1/1/2009
Jerry K. Brayton “My Circumcision Story As Told to J. Steven Svoboda” from Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around...
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ARC Issues Press Release Re Colorado Medicaid » 1/31/2012
We issued a press release on January 31, 2012, to be sent out to thousands of media outlets through prweb.com, regarding efforts in...
CDC’s New Circumcision Policy Flouts Medical Fact and Is Illegal » 10/20/2009
National Coalition for Men and Attorneys for the Rights of the Child 2961 Ashby Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 Fax/Phone 510-595-5550 arc@...
Lawsuits ahead!; sensitivity proven lost by circumcised men » 3/19/2007
19 March 2007 Astudy published today in the British Journal of Urology International proves that when men are circumcised, they lose...
$25 Million Circumcision Case Begins » 7/31/2003
Civil Rights Circumcision Case From: J. Steven Svoboda Date: 31 Jul 2003 Time: 14:16:44 Comments National Organization of Circumcision...
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HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES from CIRCUMCISION
RELATIVE to  FOUR UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
  Universal
Declaration on
Human Rights
UDHR

UN General
Assembly
Resolution
217 A (III)
-1948-

 International
Covenant on
Civil & Political
Rights
ICCPR

UN General
Assembly
Resolution
2200 A (XXI)
-1966-

 International
Covenant on
Economic,
Social &
Cultural Rights
ICESCR

UN General
Assembly
Resolution
2200 A (XXI)
-1966-

 Convention on
the Rights of
the Child
CRC

UN General
Assembly
Resolution
44/25
-1989-
Self-
Determination

Preamble, 1, 2

1

1

Preamble, 12, 1
Physical &
Moral Integrity

29, 1-2

6, 7

__

27, 41
Forced Labor
& Traffic
in Persons

23, 1-3

8

__

32, 34, 35, 36
Liberty &
Security of
Person

3, 9, 12

9, 10, 11

__

16, 33, 37
Freedom of
Religion or
Belief

18, 19

17, 18

__

14
Protection of
Children

16.3, 25

23, 24

10

19
Physical &
Mental Health

25

6.1

12

24
Against Genital
Mutilation		 Implied
Throughout		 Implied
Throughout		 Implied
Throughout

Explicit at
24.3

 

Excerpted with permission from Universal Reproductive & Human Rights: Ordering Corrective Action against North American Circumcisers, Ch. 1, "Introduction to the Urgent Human Rights Proposal" (p.11), by Anastasios Zavales.
Copyright © 1995 Ecumenics International Press, Sloatsburg, NY 10974 USA

 

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Swedish docs in circumcision protest
2/20/2012

The Swedish Paediatric Society is now calling for the banning of male circumcision as an assault on boys. http://m.thelocal.se/39200/20120219/

 

Steven Svoboda

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

ARC Letter to Dan Savage's Savage Love Column
2/18/2012

On Friday, February 17, 2012, ARC sent the following letter to Dan Savage, gay-identified author of the syndicated sex-related column Savage Love. The letter is responding to some incorrect comments regarding male circumcision in the Savage Love column this week, made in response to a reader, Uncut About Anchorage, whose partner had asked...

ARC Issues Press Release Re Colorado Medicaid
1/31/2012

We issued a press release on January 31, 2012, to be sent out to thousands of media outlets through prweb.com, regarding efforts in Colorado to undo the state's recent cessation of Medicaid funding for circumcisions.

Thanks to board member David Wilton for helping make this happen....