Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
Every year, across the globe, an estimated 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are involuntarily subjected to genital cutting. Both male and female genital cutting persist, generating a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry that is defended by its propon
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Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
George C. Denniston · Frederick M. Hodges Marilyn Fayre Milos Editors
Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights, 29–31 July 2010, University of California–Berkeley
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Editors George C. Denniston Department of Family Medicine University of Washington Nordland, WA USA
Marilyn Fayre Milos National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers San Anselmo, CA USA
Frederick M. Hodges University of Berkeley Berkeley, CA USA
ISBN 978-94-007-6406-4 ISBN 978-94-007-6407-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London
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Preface
Human rights are inalienable fundamental rights with which every human being is endowed. Moreover, human rights are universal, in that they are applicable everywhere, and egalitarian, in that they are the same for everyone witho
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