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<br>The '''Sixth International Symposium''' on Genital Integrity convened at the in [https://sydneywww.wesleycollege-usyd.edu.au/ Wesley College] at the {{UNI|University of Sydney]|USYD}}, SidneySydney, New South Wales{{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.

== Proceedings Faculty == <center><big>Thursday* '''Seham Abd el Salam Muhammed,''' {{MD}}, research fellow, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, the {{UNI|American University in Cairo|AUC}}, member of the Egyptian FGM Task Force, 7 December</big></center><br>founder of Resource Center of FGM Cairo, Egypt.* '''John Aldous''', co-founder E.B.-N.O.R.M. (Everyman’s Birthright - National Organization of Restoring Men). Everard Park, {{AUSC|SA}}, Australia.<b>0800–0900: Registration</b><br>* '''[[Zenas Baer]]''', {{JD}}, attorney concentrating on Federal Civil Rights Litigation. Hawley, {{USSC|MN}}, USA.<b>0900–0915: Welcome * '''[[Jeannine Parvati Baker]]''', MS, co-founder, Six Directions non-profit educational organisation, author and Opening Remarks• lecturer. Joseph, {{USSC|UT}}, USA.* ''Marilyn Milos '[[Peter Ball]]''', {{MA}}, MB, B.Chir., retired family practitioner, producer and George Williamsdirector, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.* '''Gillian A. Bensley'''</b><br>conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology. {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}, Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.<b>0915–1000: Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children * '''[[Dan Bollinger| Daniel H. Bollinger]], III''', {{BA}}, founder and Violation of Their Human Rights: EthicalDirector, Wabash Men’s Council, {{USSC|IN}}, USA.* '''[[Charles A. Bonner]]''', {{JD}}, civil rights, personal injury, Psychological and Legal Considerations• medical malpractice attorney. Sausalito, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.* '''[[Gregory J. Boyle]]''</b><br>', {{PhD}}, Professor of Psychology, {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.<b>1000–1115: An Overview • * '''[[Mary Conant]]'''George Williams, Moderator{{RN}}, conscientious objector to circumcision, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child. Santa Fe, {{USSC|NM}}, USA.* ''</b><br> Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis • '[[Robert Darby]]'Frederick Mansfield Hodges''<br>A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation , {{PhD}}, scholar and editor, researched the history of the Foreskin rise and the Rise decline of Preventive Circumcision routine circumcision in Australiafor his book on the subject. Canberra, {{AUSC|ACT}}, 1880–1930 • Australia.* '''[[Paul M. Fleiss| Paul Fleiss]]'Robert Darby''<br>, {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, paediatrician. Los Angeles, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant* '''Tracey Gemmel''', candidate for Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology, {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, the Reasons Keep Changing • Australia.* '''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]'Michael Katz''<br> , {{PhD}}, associate professor, general biology, Faculty of Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.<b>1115–1130: Break</b><br> * '''[[Yngve Hofvander]]''', paediatrician, Professor, International Child Health, {{UNI|Uppsala University|UU}}, Sweden, consultant to the Swedish International Development Authority, World Health Organization, and [[UNICEF]]. Uppsala, Sweden.<b>1130–1300* '''[[Frederick M. Hodges]]''', {{PhD}} (Oxon), medical historian, co-editor, Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal , and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 1999). {{UNI|University of Genital Mutilation • Oxford|Oxon}}, Oxford, UK.* '''LeYoni Junos'''George Williams, ModeratorDirector, Amnesty International Bermuda, Bermuda Human Rights Commissioner. Hamilton, Bermuda.* '''Michael Katz'</b><br> '', {{MD}}, Vice President of Research for the March of Dimes. White Plains, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.Comparative Legal Analysis * '''[[Dai Sik Kim]]''', {{PhD}}, Professor, Department of Body Mutilation Practices on Children • Physics, {{UNI|Seoul National University|SNU}}. Seoul, Korea.* '''Sae Chul Kim'''J, {{MD}}, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, {{UNI|Chung Ang University|CAU}}, Seoul, Korea. Steven Svoboda* '''Tina Kimmel''' <br>Equal Protection Case Studies , MSW, {{MPH}}, doctoral candidate in the Scope public health, {{UNI|University of California|UCSF}}, Berkeley, Director, NOCIRC of California – East Bay. Oakland, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.* '''Peter Lawrence''', MS, doctoral candidate, {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}}, counsellor,and Limit founder of GenderUNCIRC of Australia in 1994. Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.* '''Els Leye''', Female Genital Mutilation Project Coordinator, International Centre for Reproductive Health. Ghent, Belgium.* '''[[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]''', {{MA}}, cross-Based Discrimination Under State cultural sexologist and Federal Constitutions • clinical supervisor,The American Board of Sexology, author, Prisoners of Ritual: An Odyssey Into Female Genital Mutilation, A Woman’s Odyssey into Africa: Tracks Across a Life, and Genital Surgery and the Rights of Children. Tucson, {{USSC|AZ}}, USA.* '''Linda Massie'Zenas Baer''<br , BSc, PG/> Human Rights Dip, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Children Northern Ireland. Glen gormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.* '''Brett McCann''', Counsellor, Sexual Health Clinic, Sydney Hospital, President, Australasian Sexual Health Counsellors Society. Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.* '''[[Ken McGrath| Kenneth A. McGrath]]''', VRD, {{MS}} (Hons), LIBiol, MNZIMLS, RNZNVR (Rtd), Senior Lecturer in the Pathology, Faculty of Health Studies, {{UNI|Auckland University of Technology|AUT}}. Auckland, New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Zealand.* '''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]]''', {{RN}}, co-founder and Director, NationalOrganization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers(NOCIRC), Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity Throughout . San Anselmo, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.* '''Pandy S. Ndimwibo''', {{BA}} SWASA, DIP PPM, PGD Counselling,Chairman of the World • Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau. Kampala, Uganda, Africa.* '''Juliana Nkrumah'Charles Bonner''<br /> Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today MS, Community Education and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow! • Development Officer, {{AUSC|NSW}} Education Program on FGM, Ethnic Affairs Commission of {{AUSC|NSW}}, Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.* '''Myung-Geol Pang'''J, {{PhD}}, GenDix, Co., Korea, Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population, Medical Research Center, {{UNI|Seoul National University|SNU}}. Seoul, Korea. Neville Turner* '''Shane Peterson'''<br>, {{PhD}}, International Office for Men’s Health and Gender Studies, School of Nursing and Public Health, {{UNI|Edith Cowan University|ECU}}. Canberra, {{AUSC|ACT}}, Australia.<b>1300–1430: Lunch</b> <br>* '''Royal Phillips''', CBE, international childbirth instructor, columnist, Montecito Journal. Santa Barbara, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.<b>1430–1600: Religious Considerations • * '''Samuel M. Ramos'''Tina Kimmelconducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology at {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, ModeratorAustralia.* ''</b> <br>An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook • 'Samuel Richmond'Moisés Tractenberg''<br>, {{BA}}, MLS, librarian and Director, NOCIRC of California - Irvine. Irvine, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.Attitude* '''William Sides''', Managing Director of Sides Engineering, developed the “Pill Tube” foreskin restoration method. Wheelers Hill, Knowledge{{AUSC|VIC}}, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation • Australia.* '''[[Morris L. Sorrells]]'''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana{{MD}}, retired paediatrician, consultant. Atherton, {{USSC|CA}}, Ronit Tamir Bris ShalemUSA.* '''[[J. Steven Svoboda]]''': <br>Toward a Covenant , {{JD}}, founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of Wholeness • the Child (ARC), Berkeley, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.* '''Moisés Tractenberg'Samuel Richmond''<br> Limitations to Practices , {{MD}}, psychoanalyst, author, Director, NOCIRC of a Belief or Religion in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.* '''[[John W. Travis]]''', {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, founder and co-director, Wellness Associates, author, Wellness Inventory and the Wellness Workbook, co-founder, [[International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Coalition for Genital Mutilation in Integrity]], co-founder, Alliance for Transforming the Judaic Tradition • Lives of Children. East Gipsland, {{AUSC|VIC}}, Australia.* ''LeYoni Junos'[[J. Neville Turner]]'''<br>, LLB (Hons), {{BA}}, barrister and solicitor, authored six books and numerous articles on child and family law, board member and former president of Oz Child. Melbourne, {{AUSC|VIC}}, Australia.<b>1600–1615: Break</b><br>* '''Franco Viviani''', {{PhD}}, professor, physical education, cultural anthropology, and general biology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.<b>1615–1700: Breaking Through Medical * '''[[Shelton Walden| Shelton Harrison Walden]]''', {{BA}}, Executive Producer and Media Bias• host, Walden’s Pond, WBAI radio, teacher, High School for Environmental Studies. New York, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.* '''[[John Warren]]'Tina Kimmel'', MB, DCH, FRCP, founder and Director, National Organization of Restoring Men (NORM-UK), Director, NOCIRC of UK. Harlow, Essex, ModeratorUK.* '''Norma Wilcox'''<, {{RN}}, MS, Director, Urological/b><br>GynecologicalTeaching Associate Programs, {{UNI|Stanford University|SU}} and {{UNI|University of California|UCSF}}/San Francisco Schools of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. San Francisco, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.The White Coat * '''[[George L. Williams| George Williams]]''', {{MBChB}}, {{FRACP}}, consultant paediatrician/perinatologist, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula Australia. Menai, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.* '''[[Hugh Young]]''', BSc, journalist and radio producer, Auckland, Whangarei, Honiara (Solomon Islands), Gisborne, and Wellington. Pukerua Bay, Aotearoa, New Zealand.* '''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin''', {{PhD}}, '''Avraham Kahana''', and Survive Physician Opposition • ''Norma Wilcox'Ronit Tamir'''<br>, members, The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition • Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. '''Shelton Harrison WaldenAvshalom Zoossmann-Diskin'''<br><b>1700–1730: Discussion</b>, {{PhD}}, currently a medical student in Australia is Director, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Sturt, {{AUSC|SA}}, Australia.

<center><big>Friday== Proceedings ===== Program ======= Thursday, 8 7 December</big></center>====* '''Welcome and Opening Remarks''': ''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]] and George Williams''

<b>0800–0900: Registration<br>0900–1115: International News • * ''Peter Ball, Moderator''<[https://b><br>A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it upbooks.”• ''Hugh Young and Kenneth Agoogle. McGrath''<br>Circumcision Rates in UK Males • ''John Warren''y<br>Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland • ''Linda Massie'' <br>com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=K6Ho2pAV35sC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Circumcision +of +Boys +in +Sweden: +Proposal +for +Government +Regulation • ''Yngve Hofvander'' <br>Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa &ots=OKGI_TmK7j&sig=Z11KSVssC6yp6q8LQkeKxCI3er4#v=onepage&q=Circumcision Ritual• ''Royal Phillips'' <br>Discussion <br><b>1115–1130%20of%20Boys%20in%20Sweden%3A%20Proposal%20for%20Government%20Regulation&f=false Keynote Address: Break</b><br>1130–1300: Female Ending Enforced Genital Mutilation• ''Juliana Nkrumah, Moderator''<br>FGM: Getting the Debate Happening at the Grassroots – The Australian Experience • ''Juliana Nkrumah''<br>Egyptian Intellectuals Cutting of Children and Genital Integrity• ''Seham Abd el Salam Mohammed''<br>Female Circumcision: Its Effects on the Reproductive Health Violation of Adolescents • ''Pandy Ndimwibo''<br>The Struggle Against Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision: The European Experience • ''Els Leye''<br><b>1300-1430: Lunch</b><br><b>1430-1545: Female Genital Mutilation (continued)'' Sunna Budnin''Their Human Rights:</b> <br>An Alternative Ritual to InfibulationEthical,Invented and Carried Out in the Merka District, Somalia • ''Pia Grassivaro Gallo Psychological and Franco Viviani''<br>Genital Mutilation of Children: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? • 'Legal Considerations]'Hanny Lightfoot-Klein''<br><b>1545-1630: International Symposia on Genital Integrity Award Presentations • ''Marilyn Milos, Moderator''</b><br><b>1630–1645: Break</b><br><b>1645–1730: Address of the Recipient of the Human Rights Award: Over 100% Circumcision Rate: The Short and Bizarre History of South Korean Circumcision ''DaiSik Kim, Myung-Geol Pang, Sae Chul Kim[[Gregory J. Boyle]]''</b>

<center><big>Saturday* '''Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation''': ''George Williams, 9 December<Moderator'':* [https:/big></center>www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/Limits-of-the-Law-Comparative-Analysis-of-Legal-and-Extralegal-Methods.pdf Comparative Legal Analysis of Body Mutilation Practices on Children]:: ''[[J. Steven Svoboda]]'':* Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions:: ''[[Zenas Baer]]'':* Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World:: ''[[Charles A. Bonner]]'':* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_16 Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow!]:: ''[[J. Neville Turner]]''

<b>0800–0900: Registration</b><br><b>0900–1115: Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation• * '''Religious Considerations'Gregory J. Boyle, Moderator''</b><br>Sigmund Freud, Male Circumcision and the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Review • ''George WilliamsTina Kimmel, Moderator'' <br>Physical, Sexual, and Psychological Impact of Male Infant Circumcision: * An Exploratory Study • ''Gillian A. Bensley and Gregory J. Boyle''<br>Neonatal Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: Long-Term Harmful Effects• ''Tracey Gemmel and Gregory J. Boyle''<br>Ritual and Medical Circumcision Among Filipino BoysThe Psychoanalytic Outlook: Evidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • ''Samuel M. Ramos and Gregory J. Boyle''<br>Counselling Approaches for Acute Post-Circumcision Stress Disorder: A Case Study • ''Brett McCann and Peter Lawrence'' <br>How to Respond to the Doctor Who Says You Must Circumcise Your Son • ''Paul FleissMoisés Tractenberg''<br><b>1115–1130: Break</b><br>1130–1300: What Exactly Is Lost With Genital Cutting? • ''Morris Sorrells* Attitude, Knowledge, Moderator'' <br>Separation of the Two Sensory Platforms of the Human Penis• ''Kenneth A. McGrath''<br>A Novel Research Study in Assessing Penile Sensitivity/Insensitivity Without a Measuring Device • ''Peter Lawrence'' <br>Touch-Test Sensory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Findings• ''Morris Sorrells and Tina Kimmel''<br>Discussion<br>Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation<b>1300–1430: Lunch</b><br><b>1430–1500: Addressing the Wounds • ''Peter BallAvshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Moderator''</b><br>Ronit TamirAssaulted and Mutilated: A Personal Account * Bris Shalem: Toward a Covenant of Circumcision Trauma • ''Shane Peterson''<br>Wholeness<b>1500-1630: Concurrent Session A: Male Genital Mutilation and Foreskin Restoration • ''Peter Ball, ModeratorSamuel Richmond''</b><br>Circumcision: A Festering Wound • ''Daniel H. Bollinger, III''<br>Current Foreskin Restoration * Limitations to Practices in Australia • ''John M. Aldous''<br>A report on the evolution and growth of foreskin restoration a Belief or Religion in Sydney Australia, since 1994 • ''Peter Lawrence''<br>Doctors, File Information, and Activists Can be Worse than the Circumciser’s Knife • ''William Sides''<br>Foreskin Restoration: a video • ''Peter Ball''<br><b>1500–1630International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Concurrent Session B: The Role of Women in Ending Genital Mutilation • ''Jeannine Parvati Baker, Mary Conant, Linda Massie, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderators''</b><br><b>1630–1645: Break</b><br><b>1645–1730: Closing Keynote Address: Circumcision as a Part of in the Normative Abuse of Children: Essentials for Transforming the Lives of Children ''John W. Travis''<br>17:30–1800Judaic Tradition: Closing: ''Jeannine Parvati BakerLeYoni Junos''</b>

The proceedings are published in ''[https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Understanding+Circumcision%3A+A+Multi-Disciplinary+Approach+to+a+Multi-Dimensional+Problem&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss_2Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem]''= Friday, edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2001.8 December ====

==Symposium organisers==* '''International News'''Marilyn Fayre Milos: ''Peter Ball, RN, National Organization Moderator'':* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_8 A Review of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, Drin New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.]:: ''Hugh Young and Kenneth A. George Williams, NOCIRC McGrath'':* Circumcision Rates in UK Males:: ''John Warren'':* Prevention of Australia, DrGenital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland:: ''Linda Massie'':* [https://link. Gregory Jspringer. Boyle, Bond University, and Drcom/chapter/10. Frederick Hodges, Wellcome Unit 1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_9 Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation]:: ''Yngve Hofvander'':* Prince for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual:: ''Royal Phillips''

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