There is no room for hatred and misanthropy! WORLDW – 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) TA UT ··beschneidungsforum.de – das Forum zum Thema Beschneidung (Gemany) L 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) ··Intact Africa Through the efforts of organizations like USAID, UNICEF and The World Bank, count- ··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 ··Partei der Humanisten (Germany) the Child, Article 2 (protection against discrimination); Article 3 (prece- ··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.
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women, and youths. I demand demand I youths. and women, be protected from harm. On On harm. from protected be
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However, physical integrity and self-determination must still be integrated into into integrated be still must self-determination and integrity physical However, of AIDS orphans. The main main The orphans. AIDS of consent” written in several several in written consent”
rewards. In the VMMC research project www.vmmcproject.org from Kenya and and Kenya from www.vmmcproject.org project research VMMC the In rewards.
from AIDS, leaving thousands thousands leaving AIDS, from text, “Circumcision: I did not not did I “Circumcision: text, the international level, also, the technical discussion is moving in this direction. direction. this in moving is discussion technical the also, level, international the
promises, and then circumcised before being sent home. The medical staff receive receive staff medical The home. sent being before circumcised then and promises, sion are now on ARVs or dying dying or ARVs on now are sion baby photos along with the the with along photos baby
ures to an age where the person affected is able to give informed consent. On On consent. informed give to able is affected person the where age an to ures
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African men who believed they they believed who men African sides are emblazoned with with emblazoned are sides repeatedly reported how boys are systematically ”kidnapped“ directly from school school from directly ”kidnapped“ systematically are boys how reported repeatedly
or prevent HIV/AIDS in Africa. Africa. in HIV/AIDS prevent or Unit, a repurposed truck whose whose truck repurposed a Unit, sought about their own sex. own their about sought
manipulated before the birth of their child using one-sided information. It has been been has It information. one-sided using child their of birth the before manipulated
America and cannot reduce reduce cannot and America Intaction’s Mobile Education Education Mobile Intaction’s
persons often report feeling altered and resentful that their input was never never was input their that resentful and altered feeling report often persons
reached in adults, minors are increasingly targeted to reach the goal. Mothers are are Mothers goal. the reach to targeted increasingly are minors adults, in reached
failed to stop HIV/AIDS in in HIV/AIDS stop to failed Losquadro will be deploying deploying be will Losquadro
gender, and to hormonal treatments before capacity to consent. The affected affected The consent. to capacity before treatments hormonal to and gender,
HIV prophylaxis, unleash a cruel dynamic: since the established quotas are often not not often are quotas established the since dynamic: cruel a unleash prophylaxis, HIV message that circumcision circumcision that message with Intaction. Founder Anthony Anthony Founder Intaction. with
acteristics. Time and again this leads to early genital operations to “assign” a a “assign” to operations genital early to leads this again and Time acteristics.
It is a day to send a strong strong a send to day a is It Autonomy 2017 in New York York New in 2017 Autonomy cumcisions. Circumcision programs, financed with millions of US dollars for alleged alleged for dollars US of millions with financed programs, Circumcision cumcisions.
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Africans will reduce HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS. reduce will Africans in Worldwide Day of Genital Genital of Day Worldwide in African boys, possibly 65,000 a year, and several hundred deaths from ritual cir ritual from deaths hundred several and year, a 65,000 possibly boys, African -
propaganda that circumcising circumcising that propaganda I am proud to be participating participating be to proud am I
consent Time and again, the media report a shockingly large number of seriously injured injured seriously of number large shockingly a report media the again, and Time
it stands up to Western Western to up stands it Orthodox Jewish background, background, Jewish Orthodox
due to genital surgery without their own own their without surgery genital to due circumcision programs circumcision
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