Resources

List of Legal Victories Proving Harm Caused by Circumcision

This list only represents a very small percentage of the total number of circumcision-related lawsuits. Privately arranged settlements and sealed settlements are both highly unlikely to appear in the list. Accordingly, this list grossly underestimates the number of successful circumcision-related lawsuits and the cost of male circumcision.

Click here to view the complete list: http://arclaw.org/resources/settlements

Circumcision: Your Legal Rights Brochure

Our “know your rights” brochure for potential litigants is now available thanks to the active collaboration of ARC Secretary and Intact America Director Georganne Chapin.

Click here to view: http://arclaw.org/announcements/circumcision-your-legal-rights

Articles

Tortured Doctrines, Tortured Bodies: How Legal Fictions Help Justify and Perpetuate Male Circumcision and Other Inhumane Practices » 7/31/2010
“Tortured Doctrines, Tortured Bodies: How Legal Fictions Help Justify and Perpetuate Male Circumcision and Other Inhumane Practices...
A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting » 1/1/2009
J. Steven Svoboda and Robert Darby “A Rose By Any Other Name? Symmetry and Asymmetry in Male and Female Genital Cutting” A...
A Treatise from the Trenches: Why Are Circumcision Lawsuits So Hard to Win? » 1/1/2009
J. Steven Svoboda A Treatise from the Trenches: Why Are Circumcision Lawsuits So Hard to Win? from Circumcision and Human Rights by...
My Circumcision Story As Told to J. Steven Svoboda » 1/1/2009
Jerry K. Brayton “My Circumcision Story As Told to J. Steven Svoboda” from Fearful Symmetries: Essays and Testimonies Around...
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Press Releases

New ARC Article Finds Fault With Pediatric Organization’s Support for Circumcision, Provoking its Formal Response » 3/16/2013
We issued a press release on March 16 announcing a new article appearing on March 18 by Steven and Robert Van Howe that criticizes the...
Attorneys for the Rights of the Child Condemns American Academy of Pediatrics for Hiding the Truth, Putting Doctors Ahead of Patients in its Circumcision Statement » 8/22/2012
For Immediate Release: 08/22/2012
ARC Issues Press Release Re Colorado Medicaid » 1/31/2012
We issued a press release on January 31, 2012, to be sent out to thousands of media outlets through prweb.com, regarding efforts in...
CDC’s New Circumcision Policy Flouts Medical Fact and Is Illegal » 10/20/2009
National Coalition for Men and Attorneys for the Rights of the Child 2961 Ashby Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 Fax/Phone 510-595-5550 arc@...
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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

 

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GENITAL AUTONOMY 2014
“Whole Bodies, Whole Selves: Activating Social Change”
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The 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights

University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado, USA

July 24-26, 2014

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