Steven Leads Team’s Submission to United Nations
Following the sad and unexpected passing of Australian human rights attorney Paul Mason, Steven Svoboda took over from Paul to [...]
Report on Circumcision in Canada Submitted to United Nations
In July 2018, an international team submitted to the United Nations a report on circumcision as a human rights [...]
Intactivist Progress at the United Nations in Gaining Recognition of Male Infant Circumcision as a Human Rights Violation
As I learned in detail at the recent Keele conference, Antony Lempert of the Secular Medical Forum (SMF) has [...]
Educating the United Nations About Male Circumcision
“Educating the United Nations About Male Circumcision,” in G.C. Denniston, M.F. Milos, and F. Hodges, eds., Flesh and Blood: Perspectives [...]
United Nations Criticized for Sex Discrimination Against Males
The intactivist movement was represented for the first time this year at the three-week-long 52nd annual meeting of the United [...]
United Nations Project
From July 29 through August 15, 2001, we were in Geneva, Switzerland, working independently and with a team we [...]
Oral Intervention with United Nations regarding Male Circumcision
"Some day, we will come to understand the misguided nature of our attempts to explain why any violation of female genitals is criminal while a serious, extremely painful, and disfiguring alteration of male genitals is permissible. In the meantime, the screaming babies can't tell the difference. All we need to is open our ears and start to hear their cries."
Written Statement to the United Nations
This file contains the written statement by J. Steven Svoboda, J.D., Esq, Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, submitted to the fifty-third session of the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Development of Human Rights, United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, 9 August 2001.