Human Rights Violations Table

HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES from CIRCUMCISION
RELATIVE to FOUR UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS

Universal
Declaration on
Human Rights
UDHR
UN General
Assembly
Resolution
217 A (III)
-1948-
International
Covenant on
Civil & Political
Rights
ICCPR
UN General
Assembly
Resolution
2200 A (XXI)
-1966-
International
Covenant on
Economic,
Social &
Cultural Rights
ICESCR
UN General
Assembly
Resolution
2200 A (XXI)
-1966-
Convention on
the Rights of
the Child
CRC
UN General
Assembly
Resolution
44/25
-1989-
Self-
Determination
Preamble, 1, 2 1 1 Preamble, 12, 1
Physical &
Moral Integrity
29, 1-2 6, 7 27, 41
Forced Labor &
Traffic in Persons
23, 1-3 8 32, 34, 35, 36
Liberty & Security
of Person
3, 9, 12 9, 10, 11 16, 33, 37
Freedom of Religion
or Belief
18, 19 17, 18 14
Protection of
Children
16.3, 25 23, 24 10 19
Physical &
Mental Health
25 6.1 12 24
Against Genital
Mutilation
Implied
Throughout
Implied
Throughout
Implied
Throughout
Explicit at
24.3

Excerpted with permission from Universal Reproductive & Human Rights:
Ordering Corrective Action against North American Circumcisers, Ch. 1,
“Introduction to the Urgent Human Rights Proposal” (p.11), by Anastasios Zavales.
Copyright © 1995 Ecumenics International Press, Sloatsburg, NY 10974 USA