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Flyer WWDOGA 2017 ORLD There is no room for hatred and misanthropy! W W – ID We strongly object to any attempts to misconstrue our efforts on behalf of the rights Y E of all children to genital self-determination, or to misuse these efforts as a basis to A D profess or carry out hatred toward religious and cultural communities. M A We urge all participants to clearly distance themselves from generalizations and . Y 7 animosity and to be absolutely clear that this is solely about the well-being, bodily integrity, and right to self-determination of the child. O Appealing for the F Y WORLDWIDE DAY OF GENITAL AUTONOMY are: G M · Attorneys for the rights of the child (USA) E O · Australasian Institute for Genital Autonomy – AIGA Inc. (Australia) NI ON · Bay Area Intactivists (USA) TAL UT · beschneidungsforum.de – das Forum zum Thema Beschneidung (Gemany) A · Berufsverband der Kinder- und Jugendärzte BVKJ (Germany) · Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Säkulare Grüne (Germany) · Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (Canada) th th · Children‘s Health & Human Rights Partnership (Canada) May 7 : Cologne Ruling’s 5 Birthday · Deutsches Kinderbulletin – jedem Kind eine Chance / Politische Kindermedizin (Germany) · Doctors Opposing Circumcison (D.O.C.) – Physicians for Genital Integrity (USA) WORLDWIDE DAY OF GENITAL AUTONOMY · Droit au corps (France) This will be the fifth anniversary of the ”Cologne Ruling“. In 2012, for the first time, · Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener im MOGiS e.V. – Eine Stimme für Betroffene (Germany) a court explicitly granted boys the right to genital self-determination by evaluating · Forum Männer in Theorie und Praxis der Geschlechterverhältnisse (Germany) a medically unnecessary foreskin removal (”circumcision“) of a boy as an offense. · Genital Autonomy (Great Britain) This decision has since become a worldwide symbol for the self-determination of · Genital Autonomy America (USA) children regardless of gender, ancestry or religion. · Giordano-Bruno-Stiftung (Germany) IBKA – Internationaler Bund der Konfessionslosen und Atheisten (Germany) · This year’s main focus is: · Initiative gegen Gewalt und sexuellen Missbrauch an Kindern und Jugendlichen e.V. (Germany) · (I)NTACT – Internationale Aktion gegen die Beschneidung von Mädchen und Frauen e.V. CIRCUMCISION PROJECTS IN AFRICA (Germany) Through the efforts of organizations like USAID, UNICEF and The World Bank, count- · Intact Africa · Intact Denmark (Denmark) less boys have been and are still at risk of becoming victims of forced circumcision · Intact Kenya (Kenya) under the alleged aim of protection against HIV infection. On the 7th of May, those · Intact Switzerland (Switzerland) affected will finally be heard. · Intaction (USA) · intaktiv e.V. – eine Stimme für genitale Selbstbestimmung (Germany) The ”World Day of Genital Autonomy“ calls for: Just a snip“ (Denmark) · • An immediate stop to group or mass circumcision of minor males (boys) · M.E.L.I.N.A Inzestkinder/Menschen aus VerGEWALTigung e.V. (Germany) · Men Do Complain (Great Britain) for alleged HIV prevention in African countries. · MOGiS e.V. – ”Eine Stimme für Betroffene“ (Germany) · NORM-UK / 15 Square (Great Britain) • Adherence to and implementation of the UN-Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2 (protection against discrimination); Article 3 (prece- · Partei der Humanisten (Germany) · Piratenpartei Deutschland (Germany) dence of children’s well-being); and Article 24 Paragraph 3 (abolishment · pro familia Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) Impressum of traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children). · Pro Kinderrechte CH (Switzerland) genitale-selbstbestimmung.de · Projekt 100% Mensch – Liebe Recht Respekt (Germany) • Legislatives initiatives worldwide that provide for the protection of all Verantwortlich für den Inhalt: · Protect the Child (Israel) children, regardless of gender, from non-therapeutic genital operations. · Schwules Netzwerk NRW e.V. (Germany) Facharbeitskreis · Sexpo (Finland) Beschneidungsbetroffener • Increased measures also against so-called ”less invasive“ and medicali- · TABU International e.V. – Gegen Genitalverstümmelung, für Frauen- und Kinderrechte im MOGiS e.V. zed forms of female genital mutilation. (Germany) Kopernikusstraße 11 · TERRE DES FEMMES – Menschenrechte für die Frau e.V. (Germany) 18057 Rostock • Protection of children with atypical sex characteristics from genital Your Whole Baby (USA) · surgery and intervention without absolute medical indication. · Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime (Germany) www.die-betroffenen.de • Public research and education on the consequences of non-therapeutic www.genital-autonomy.de genital surgery on children in its different forms and social contexts. Prince Hillary Maloba, Jonathan Friedman, vmmcproject.org (Kenya): Topic 2017: Africans are resisting Suffering and trauma of intersex-children Intaction (USA): ”I support this day because circumcision programs due to genital surgery without their own ”As an American man with an it stands up to Western Orthodox Jewish background, propaganda that circumcising Time and again, the media report a shockingly large number of seriously injured consent I am proud to be participating Africans will reduce HIV/AIDS. African boys, possibly 65,000 a year, and several hundred deaths from ritual cir- One or two out of every 1000 children are born with ”atypical“ sexual char- in Worldwide Day of Genital It is a day to send a strong cumcisions. Circumcision programs, financed with millions of US dollars for alleged acteristics. Time and again this leads to early genital operations to “assign” a Autonomy 2017 in New York message that circumcision HIV prophylaxis, unleash a cruel dynamic: since the established quotas are often not gender, and to hormonal treatments before capacity to consent. The affected with Intaction. Founder Anthony failed to stop HIV/AIDS in reached in adults, minors are increasingly targeted to reach the goal. Mothers are Losquadro will be deploying America and cannot reduce persons often report feeling altered and resentful that their input was never Intaction’s Mobile Education or prevent HIV/AIDS in Africa. manipulated before the birth of their child using one-sided information. It has been sought about their own sex. Unit, a repurposed truck whose repeatedly reported how boys are systematically ”kidnapped“ directly from school African men who believed they All German paediatric associations currently recommend delaying those meas- sides are emblazoned with were protected by circumci- without the knowledge of their parents, attracted with soft drinks, sweets and false photos of men holding their ures to an age where the person affected is able to give informed consent. On sion are now on ARVs or dying promises, and then circumcised before being sent home. The medical staff receive baby photos along with the the international level, also, the technical discussion is moving in this direction. from AIDS, leaving thousands rewards. In the VMMC research project www.vmmcproject.org from Kenya and text, “Circumcision: I did not of AIDS orphans. The main However, physical integrity and self-determination must still be integrated into consent” written in several Uganda, the victims now are now getting a voice for the first time. agents of this disaster are practice in many places. languages. There is also a the medical establishment display with a doll strapped and the corrupt governments Together against female genital mutilation For 20 years, people affected have been publicly protesting these surgeries, to a board including surgical that allow world powers to which they describe in terms of fundamental human rights violations, as being instruments, which leads many Female genital mutilation is a prevalent procedure: it is practised in 29 countries maintain their control over traumatising and as destructive to sexual sensation. These are allegations that onlookers to newly understand in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as in South-, South-East- and Central Asia. But Africa. We view it as a violation are also backed by human rights committees like the United Nations Commit- the severity of circumcision as of our rights that is increasing even in Europe, the USA and Canada, women and girls still have their genitals experienced by an infant child. tee on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC). HIV and STIs among men, mutilated. This is commonly done between the ages of 4 and 12 years. Worldwide, All children deserve the right women, and youths. I demand approximately 140 million women and girls are affected. 700.000 of them live in be protected from harm. On the banning of the West’s WWDOGA, we stand united to circumcision agenda in Africa. Europe; 35.000 in Germany alone. Female genital mutilation is classified by the petition our governments to It has discriminated against World Health Organization (WHO) into four categories, from light to extreme. Ac- uphold this basic human right, the African people.“ cording to the WHO, female genital mutilation refers to all practices in which the including the right to genital outer genitalia are partly or completely removed, as well as to all other injuries to The Cologne Ruling autonomy for all.“ the female genitalia that are not medically indicated. Depending on the motives On May 7th, 2012, the Regional Court of Cologne ruled that a non-therapeutic Dr. Christoph Kupferschmid, and category of cutting, the intervention leads to health, psychological, social BVKJ – (German pediatric and economic consequences for the affected parties. Female genital mutilation
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