Wednesday 23rd June 2010NORM-UK Trustee Richard Duncker has replied to an Independent article of 15th June. The article, entitled Is This the Start of a Backlash Against Circumcision acknowledges recent strong criticism of child circumcision but also repeats previous suggestions that it will reduce sexually transmitted HIV... [Read More] |
Sunday 30th May 2010The Royal Dutch Medical Association (the KNMG) has published a ground breaking position paper on non therapeutic male child circumcision which calls for a "powerful policy of deterrence", if not an outright ban.
The paper states that non therapeutic circumcision is an infringement of a child's ri... [Read More] |
Sunday 30th May 2010Just as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) withdrew its statement proposing doctors should be able to 'nick' the clitoral prepuce of baby girls, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) admitted it may consider a similar proposal.
RANZCOG Se... [Read More] |
Thursday 27th May 2010The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has officially withdrawn a new policy statement in which it suggested doctors be permitted to perform an incision form of female genital cutting (FGC, also known as female genital mutilation or FGM).
Any cultural or ritual cutting or pricking of a female c... [Read More] |
Thursday 13th May 2010A Californian father who branded his children as his property has been found not guilty of second degree assault. The jury could not agree on a lesser charge of fourth degree assault and the judge declared a mistrial.
Mark J. Seamands branded both his teenage sons and his teenage daughter with th... [Read More] |
Wednesday 12th May 2010In a policy statement in its house journal Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has suggested doctors be allowed to perform a ritual nick to the clitoral hood of a female child, and calls for an end to use of the term female genital mutilation, which it describes as 'culturally insen... [Read More] |
Tuesday 27th April 2010A study published this week in Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies has shown that 117 American babies die each year from complications of non therapeutic circumcision surgery.
The research collected information from hospital and government sources on neonatal deaths (those which occurred in the fi... [Read More] |
Monday 12th April 2010An Australian survey of 4,290 men has confirmed that circumcision is not associated with net sexual health benefits.
The survey targeted men aged between 16 and 64 through telephone interviews. After adjusting for age and number of partners - factors influencing STI risk - there was no differenc... [Read More] |
Thursday 25th March 2010A Canadian man has been sentenced to a year in prison for the circumcision of his four year old son on a kitchen floor. This will be followed by two years probation.
The court heard that the 34 year old man, identified only by the initials DJW, was a former Jehovah's witness who now followed the ... [Read More] |
Wednesday 17th March 2010A mother in the American state of Georgia has been charged with genital mutilation and second degree cruelty after relatives spotted during nappy changes that her 10 month old baby girl appeared to be missing something.
It is not yet known what form of female circumcision is alleged, and it's im... [Read More] |
