Brussels Collaboration Releases Landmark Article on Genital Cutting
The Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity, headed by Brian Earp, is very proud to announce the release of its followup [...]
ARC Hosting “Ask Me Anything” About Intactivism and the Law
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC) is sponsoring an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) event regarding Intactivism and [...]
ARC Submits Testimony on Two New Hampshire Bills regarding Circumcision
On January 24, 2024, on behalf of Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, Steven Svoboda submitted feedback to [...]
Message from the Executive Director – Volume 14, Number 1
It’s been an interesting year. I was very pleased to be able to “go public” in a peer-reviewed journal [...]
Journal Publishes Steven’s Article about Circumcision Decision-Making as a Parent and His Activism
We are pleased to report that on October 20, 2023, the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics published Steven Svoboda's short [...]
Unabridged – Charleston Debate Marks Turning Point in Movement to Recognize Circumcision as a Human Rights Violation
The abridged version, originally published in November 2013, is available here. This unabridged version delves briefly into some issues [...]
Video Released of Steven’s Presentation at Atlanta Symposium
Intact America has released video of Steven's presentation at the Atlanta Intact 2022 Symposium, which can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNnNQd-06Dc. [...]
ARC Proposal Accepted for Journal Story About Parental Decision-Making with Circumcision
We are pleased to have been informed today, December 5, 2022, that the journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics has accepted [...]
UK National Health Service Will Stop Funding Circumcision
The United Kingdom's National Health Service has announced that it will stop funding circumcision and twelve other procedures as part [...]
Final Update Regarding Massachusetts Medicaid Lawsuit
On July 22, 2022, the Appeals Court ruled against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming that male circumcision is a [...]
Atlanta Symposium Smashing Success; ARC Newsletter Coming Soon
The Intact 2022 Symposium held on August 27-28, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia, the sixteenth symposium overall, was the first such [...]
Stories Sought From Parents Regarding Infant Genital Mutilation Decisions
We have been made aware of the following opportunity for parents to share their stories "...about newborn male circumcision [...]
Update Regarding Massachusetts Medicaid Lawsuit
On July 22, 2022, the Appeals Court recently ruled against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit claiming that male circumcision is [...]
Steven Speaking at Atlanta Symposium in August; ARC Offering Scholarships to Atlanta
ARC Executive Director Steven Svoboda is speaking at the upcoming Atlanta symposium, to be held in August. The symposium [...]
Steven Leads Team’s Work Completing United Nations Core Report
A team, the International NGO Coalition on Genital Autonomy (INGOCGA), has finished work in March 2022 on a core report [...]
ARC Publishes Trove of Translated European Legal Documents
We are pleased to announce that we hired translators who translated to English 50 foreign language documents related to [...]
Translation of 2019 Swiss Case Supporting Genital Autonomy
ARC has posted a second legal case that we had translated, also from Switzerland, this one from 2019 and also [...]
ARC Posts Translation of Important 2013 Swiss Case Supporting Genital Autonomy
ARC has posted a translation of a 2013 Swiss legal case upholding a child’s right to genital autonomy. As far [...]
Massive New Study Confirms Absolute Uselessness of Circumcision to Stop HIV
We are confident that at long last this will put to rest the frantic quest of circumcision advocates to find any shred of evidence to support the continued mutilation of babies.
ARC Publishes LGBTI Brochure
Our longtime colleague Tim Hammond has produced a new brochure regarding genital autonomy and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, [...]
Interim Legal Victory in Massachusetts Medicaid Case
Attorneys for the Rights of Child is pleased to report an interim legal victory in a circumcision case. A [...]
New German Law Protects Intersex Children
The German legislature (Bundestag) passed a law in March 2021 which will prohibit most cases of intersex genital mutilation [...]
Lawsuit Filed Against American Academy of Pediatrics Claiming Fraud in Performing Circumcision
A lawsuit was filed on February 5, 2021 against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and another defendant (the [...]
US Passes Strengthened Federal Law Against Female Genital Cutting
On January 5, 2021, then President Trump signed a federal law strengthening the existing law against female genital cutting [...]
ICMI 2020 – Four Conference Presentations on Genital Autonomy
A very Merry Christmas and a retrospective Happy Hanukkah to all! The 2020 International Conference on Men’s Issues had no [...]