Male circumcision is an outmoded, harmful practice lacking any valid justification in law, medicine, ethics, and religion.
No rationale can excuse such starkly different protection of male and female children.

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ARC scholarship recipients and Executive Director at Intact 2022 symposium
ARC presents at the UN regarding circumcision and human rights
Lawyers and other human rights activists at the Intact 2022 symposium
Steven Svoboda Receives ARC’s Human Rights Award While Holding His Son, April 4, 2002.
International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy
ARC during the making of our "Know Your Rights" video
International NGO Council on Genital Autonomy
Lloyd Schofield and Steven Svoboda at a Bay Area Intactivists protest
ARC attends screening of "Red Pill" documentary with filmmaker Cassie Jaye
Lawyers, doctors, and activists at Steven's house following 2018 symposium
Genital Autonomy Day at the Ferry Building in San Francisco

Attorneys for the Rights of the Child

ARC Mission

To secure equal protection for, and broaden public and legal recognition of, children’s legal and human rights to bodily integrity and self-determination that are violated by unnecessary genital cutting of male, female and intersex children.
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ARC Accomplishments

United Nations Project
We gave oral and written presentations putting the issue of male genital mutilation on the United Nations record for the first time…

Unofficially Winning Circumcision Debate with AAP Task Force Member
The Twentieth Pitts Lectureship in Medical Ethics, held on October 18-19, 2013, marked a debate regarding the ethics of male circumcision in which Steven Svoboda unofficially defeated Michael Brady, M.D., a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Task Force on Circumcision…

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Recent Blog Posts

ARC Newsletter to be Published in November 2023

2023-11-02T09:11:06-07:00

It is good to be back again after a relatively long period of radio silence! A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes. More announcements coming soon. Our latest newsletter, our 40th [...]

Journal Publishes Steven’s Article about Circumcision Decision-Making as a Parent and His Activism

2023-11-02T09:09:28-07:00

We are pleased to report that on October 20, 2023, the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics published Steven Svoboda's short article containing his thoughts about activism and its connections with his parental decision-making regarding circumcision [...]

Unabridged – Charleston Debate Marks Turning Point in Movement to Recognize Circumcision as a Human Rights Violation

2023-10-30T12:27:04-07:00

The abridged version, originally published in November 2013, is available here. This unabridged version delves briefly into some issues that we didn’t want to publicly address at the time of the debate. Now, a [...]

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Circumcision – Know Your Legal Rights

In this video – which was commissioned, arranged, and introduced by Attorney for the Rights of the Child’s (ARC’s) J. Steven Svoboda – ARC’s original board member David Llewellyn discusses circumcision and potential litigants’ legal rights. The following questions are answered: