Wednesday 3rd September 2008NORM-UK, the organisation concerned with the male foreskin, and FORWARD, the organisation concerned with female genital mutilation (FGM), will unite at the Genital Integrity 2008 symposium on September 4th to launch a new campaign promoting the right of all men and women to say no to unnecessary gen... [Read More] |
Monday 3rd December 2007NORM-UK Trustee Richard Duncker has been featured in British newspaper The Guardian. As part of the regular Saturday 'Are You Happy?' feature Richard describes the loss he feels as a result of circumcision and puts the blame squarely at the door of the medical profession.
If you missed t... [Read More] |
Monday 8th October 2007Earlier this year, Benjamin Wood, a 16 year old from Lincolnshire in England, visited the British government's e-petition website and opened a petition to ban the circumcision of all males under 18 in the UK. As his petition approaches it's closing date on November 29th, NORM-UK caught up with Ben to find out more about him and his feelings on the subject. |
Friday 29th June 2007It has been reported today that Egypt has announced that it is imposing a complete ban on female circumcision. The announcement follows a public outcry after a young girl died during the operation. Officially the practice, which affects both Muslim and Christian women in Egypt and goes back to the t... [Read More] |
Monday 11th June 2007As part of National Men's Health Week and to coincide with Fathers' Day, Film, TV and stage star Alan Cumming has announced that he is to become a patron of NORM-UK, the registered charity concerned with education about the male foreskin and circumcision.
"Our foreskins aren't a mistake" said the... [Read More] |
Tuesday 20th March 2007A study published in the April 2007 edition of of BJU International claims that it "conclusively shows that circumcised males have a significant penile sensory deficit as compared with non-circumcised intact men."
The study, which was carried out in the San Francisco Bay area of Califor... [Read More] |
Monday 26th February 2007The debate over the supposed 'protection' from HIV offered by male circumcision in Africa continues to rage. An African news site has reported that new research dramatically contradicts the popular conclusions of recently published reports.
The article says that scientists looking at male circumc... [Read More] |
Saturday 17th February 2007It has been reported this week in the Mirror and the Guardian that a baby boy has tragically died following a circumcision.
Eight-day old Amitai Moshe went into cardiac arrest 15 minutes after the operation was performed and died eight days later. The Metropolitan Police's serious crime directora... [Read More] |
Tuesday 13th February 2007A British Citizen has created an e-petition to ban male circumcision on the British government's 10 Downing Street website.
"Despite the fact that it has no health benefits, and can be seriously harmful to newborns, around 1 in 14 British boys are circumcised at birth, for cultural and/or religio... [Read More] |
Friday 15th December 2006National Institutes of Health's endorsement of adult male circumcision leaves the question of infant circumcision unanswered.
Physicians and children's rights advocates are calling on the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to formulate a clear policy on male circumcision so that minors are ... [Read More] |
