Iraqi Kurdistan: Law Banning FGM a Positive Step
(Beirut) - A Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) law that bans female genital mutilation (FGM) is a crucial step in eradicating the practice, Human Rights Watch said today. The Family Violence Bill,...
View ArticleJews Speak Out in Favor of Banning Circumcision on Minors
There are a growing number of Jews who are becoming increasingly vocal in questioning both the ethics and the legality of circumcision. Jews in the Reform Judaism movement have already been advocating...
View ArticleCircumcision: Harm and Psychological Factors Ignored
An initiative banning circumcision that was removed from San Francisco's November ballot stimulated a wave of articles related to the topic, but virtually all of them avoid discussing the inherent harm...
View ArticleSouth African Ethics Watchdog: Babies' foreskins could be sold
"Africa may be viewed as the new source of discarded virgin foreskins to sustain a multi-million-dollar industry. Discarded human foreskins are used in the cosmetics industry, in the manufacture of...
View ArticleUK Doctors who circumcise 'are breaking the law'
Earlier this month, Men do complain (MDC) and NORM-UK chairman Dr John Warren and colleagues, pictured below, delivered an open letter to the BMA arguing that 'a child who has no disease, no injury or...
View ArticleUganda: Sebei, Karamoja girls leave school over circumcision
Rose Chebet, a resident of Kaserem Parish in Kaserem Sub-county in Kapchorwa District, dropped out of school because she had to flee her home, fearing that she would be circumcised. She said she could...
View ArticleJewish Voices: The Current Judaic Movement to End Circumcision: Part 3
The past century has been marked by the declaration and protection of universal human rights, as well as a marked increase in the quality of life, both in the United States and worldwide. With these...
View ArticleMale Infant Circumcision Rate on the Decline in Australia
An August 2011 letter in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health estimates that circumcision rates have dropped to 12.4%. The letter was written by Robert Darby Ph.D., and analyzes data...
View ArticlePioneering Foreskin Regeneration to Reverse Circumcision: An Interview with...
...there are court cases where circumcised men are rewarded compensation, but the money makes these people more frustrated because it doesn't give them the results they want, the results of...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Pro-Circumcision Bill
Should AB-768 become law, it will assert claims about the health and social benefits of circumcision that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association have consistently...
View ArticleCircumcision Does Not Prevent HPV Infection, RCT Data 'Inflated,' Study Finds
(NEW YORK, NY) — An original study at the University of Washington has found that male circumcision has no effect on human papillomavirus (HPV) infection rates. These results counter the widely...
View ArticleUK Crown Prosecution Service to strengthen support to victims of Female...
"The justification for the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is often cited as a tradition, an initiation into adulthood or a religious practice. It is in fact, a serious crime which carries...
View ArticleAustralia Sees Rising Demand for Female Genital Mutilation
"To sanction medically performed FGM would leave undisturbed the damaging assumptions motivating it, and would endorse the unjust attitudes to girls' and women's rights embodied in the practice."read more
View ArticleRoyal Dutch Medical Association Launches Anti-Circumcision Campaign
Many people think that the surgical removal of the foreskin is a risk-free surgery. That is incorrect. Shortly after the surgery, complications such as bleeding, infections, urethral strictures,...
View ArticleLawsuit for Newborn Circumcision, 'Intentional Battery'
The suit alleges as a result of the circumcision, the boy has been "permanently deprived of having normal sexual intercourse when he is an adult," and is at risk of developing related medical...
View ArticleZambia: Another study fails to find that foreskins increase risk of HIV…
...the study found that uncircumcised men were less likely to contract HIV. In their discussion of the results, however, the authors of the study failed to mention this vital fact, and concluded by...
View ArticleStudy Links Circumcision to Personality Trait Disorder
If this pattern of men suffering from circumcision-related trauma holds true for the general populace, this would constitute a significant mental health problem and, considering that three-fourths of...
View ArticleDoctors' Circumcision Recommendations Influenced By Personal Factors, Study...
A study published in the Journal of Men's Health has found that primary care physicians are most significantly influenced by their own circumcision status in their recommendations for routine infant...
View ArticleAcquisition of Erectile Dysfunction from Circumcision
A new study in the International Journal of Men’s Health shows that circumcised men have a 4.5 times greater chance of suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) than intact men, revealing what appears...
View ArticleDissecting "CUT:" Filmmaker's Podcast Series Offers Analysis, Insight into...
Independent filmmaker Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon has recently launched a groundbreaking podcast series that investigates the complexities of Jewish circumcision. The Cut Podcast draws on themes explored in...
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