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===Non-US statements===
The Royal Dutch Medical Association {KNMG) published a statement regarding the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors in 2010. The Netherlands is a nation where [[human rights]] are respected,<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/
|title=Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child
|trans-title=
|language=
|last=Smith
|first=Jacqueline
|author-link=
|publisher=Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
|website=CIRP
|date=1998
|accessdate=2020-02-04
|format=
|quote=
}}</ref> so it should be no surprise that the statement emphasizes the protection of the human rights of male minors and the reduction in the number of non-therapeutic circumcisions of children as much as possible. It finds no medical purpose for child non-therapeutic circumcision.
* {{REFweb
|url=https://www.knmg.nl/circumcision
|archived=
|title=Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors
|trans-title=
|language=English
|last=Kruseman
|first=Arie
|author-link=
|publisher=Royal Dutch Medical Association
|website=www.knmg.nl
|date=2010-05-27
|accessdate=2020-07-31
|format=PDF
|quote=
}}
The [https://www.bma.org.uk/ British Medical Association] 28-page statement (2019) focuses on legal and ethical advice to its fellows to help keep them out of trouble in a regulatory environment that is unfriendly to practitioners of non-therapeutic male circumcision. It has little to say about the medical aspects of non-therapeutic circumcision.