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<br>The '''Sixth International Symposium''' on Genital Integrity convened at the [https://sydney.edu.au/ University of Sydney], Sidney, New South Wales, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.
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The '''Sixth International Symposium''' on Genital Integrity convened in [https://www.wesleycollege-usyd.edu.au/ Wesley College] at the {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}}, Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.
  
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== Proceedings ==  
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== Faculty ==
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<center><big>Thursday, 7 December</big></center><br>
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* '''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, founder of Resource Center of FGM Cairo, Egypt.
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<b>0800–0900: Registration</b><br>
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* '''John Aldous''', co-founder E.B.-N.O.R.M. (Everyman’s Birthright - National Organization of Restoring Men). Everard Park, {{AUSC|SA}}, Australia.
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<b>0900–0915: Welcome and Opening Remarks• ''Marilyn Milos and George Williams''</b><br>
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* '''[[Zenas Baer]]''', {{JD}}, attorney concentrating on Federal Civil Rights Litigation. Hawley, {{USSC|MN}}, USA.
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<b>0915–1000: Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations• ''Gregory J. Boyle''</b><br>
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* '''[[Jeannine Parvati Baker]]''', MS, co-founder, Six Directions non-profit educational organisation, author and lecturer. Joseph, {{USSC|UT}}, USA.
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<b>1000–1115: An Overview • ''George Williams, Moderator''</b><br>
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* '''[[Peter Ball]]''', {{MA}}, MB, B.Chir., retired family practitioner, producer and director, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
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Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis • ''Frederick Mansfield Hodges''<br>
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* '''Gillian A. Bensley''' conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology. {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}, Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
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A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Preventive Circumcision in Australia, 1880–1930 • ''Robert Darby''<br>
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* '''[[Dan Bollinger| Daniel H. Bollinger]], III''', {{BA}}, founder and Director, Wabash Men’s Council, {{USSC|IN}}, USA.
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Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant, the Reasons Keep Changing • ''Michael Katz''<br>
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* '''[[Charles A. Bonner]]''', {{JD}}, civil rights, personal injury, and medical malpractice attorney. Sausalito, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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<b>1115–1130: Break</b><br>
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* '''[[Gregory J. Boyle]]''', {{PhD}}, Professor of Psychology, {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
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<b>1130–1300: Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation • ''George Williams, Moderator''</b><br>
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* '''[[Mary Conant]]''', {{RN}}, conscientious objector to circumcision, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child. Santa Fe, {{USSC|NM}}, USA.
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Comparative Legal Analysis of Body Mutilation Practices on Children • ''J. Steven Svoboda'' <br>Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions • ''Zenas Baer''<br /> Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World • ''Charles Bonner''<br /> Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow! • ''J. Neville Turner''<br>
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* '''[[Robert Darby]]''', {{PhD}}, scholar and editor, researched the history of the rise and decline of routine circumcision in Australia for his book on the subject. Canberra, {{AUSC|ACT}}, Australia.
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<b>1300–1430: Lunch</b> <br>
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* '''[[Paul M. Fleiss| Paul Fleiss]]''', {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, paediatrician. Los Angeles, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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<b>1430–1600: Religious Considerations • ''Tina Kimmel, Moderator''</b> <br>An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook • ''Moisés Tractenberg''<br>
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* '''Tracey Gemmel''', candidate for Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology, {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
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Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation • ''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir Bris Shalem'': <br>Toward a Covenant of Wholeness • ''Samuel Richmond''<br> Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition • ''LeYoni Junos''<br>
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* '''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]]''', {{PhD}}, associate professor, general biology, Faculty of Psychology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
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<b>1600–1615:  Break</b><br>
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* '''[[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.
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<b>1615–1700: Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias• ''Tina Kimmel, Moderator''</b><br>
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* '''[[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 Oxford|Oxon}}, Oxford, UK.
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The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition • ''Norma Wilcox''<br>
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* '''LeYoni Junos''', Director, Amnesty International Bermuda, Bermuda Human Rights Commissioner. Hamilton, Bermuda.
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The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition • ''Shelton Harrison Walden''<br>
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* '''Michael Katz''', {{MD}}, Vice President of Research for the March of Dimes. White Plains, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
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<b>1700–1730:  Discussion</b>
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* '''[[Dai Sik Kim]]''', {{PhD}}, Professor, Department of Physics, {{UNI|Seoul National University|SNU}}. Seoul, Korea.
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* '''Sae Chul Kim''', {{MD}}, Department of Urology, College of Medicine, {{UNI|Chung Ang University|CAU}}, Seoul, Korea.
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* '''Tina Kimmel''', MSW, {{MPH}}, doctoral candidate in public health, {{UNI|University of California|UCSF}}, Berkeley, Director, NOCIRC of California – East Bay. Oakland, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''Peter Lawrence''', MS, doctoral candidate, {{UNI|University of Sydney|USYD}}, counsellor,and founder of UNCIRC of Australia in 1994. Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.
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* '''Els Leye''', Female Genital Mutilation Project Coordinator, International Centre for Reproductive Health. Ghent, Belgium.
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* '''[[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]''', {{MA}}, cross-cultural sexologist and 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.
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* '''Linda Massie''', BSc, PG/Dip, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland. Glen gormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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* '''Brett McCann''', Counsellor, Sexual Health Clinic, Sydney Hospital, President, Australasian Sexual Health Counsellors Society. Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.
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* '''[[Ken McGrath| Kenneth A. McGrath]]''', VRD, {{MS}} (Hons), LIBiol, MNZIMLS, RNZNVR (Rtd), Senior Lecturer in Pathology, Faculty of Health Studies, {{UNI|Auckland University of Technology|AUT}}. Auckland, New Zealand.
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* '''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]]''', {{RN}}, co-founder and Director, NationalOrganization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers(NOCIRC), Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity. San Anselmo, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''Pandy S. Ndimwibo''', {{BA}} SWASA, DIP PPM, PGD Counselling,Chairman of the Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau. Kampala, Uganda, Africa.
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* '''Juliana Nkrumah''', MS, Community Education and Development Officer, {{AUSC|NSW}} Education Program on FGM, Ethnic Affairs Commission of {{AUSC|NSW}}, Sydney, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.
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* '''Myung-Geol Pang''', {{PhD}}, GenDix, Co., Korea, Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population, Medical Research Center, {{UNI|Seoul National University|SNU}}. Seoul, Korea.
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* '''Shane Peterson''', {{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.
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* '''Royal Phillips''', CBE, international childbirth instructor, columnist, Montecito Journal. Santa Barbara, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''Samuel M. Ramos''' conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology at {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}. Gold Coast, {{AUSC|QLD}}, Australia.
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* '''Samuel Richmond''', {{BA}}, MLS, librarian and Director, NOCIRC of California - Irvine. Irvine, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''William Sides''', Managing Director of Sides Engineering, developed the “Pill Tube” foreskin restoration method. Wheelers Hill, {{AUSC|VIC}}, Australia.
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* '''[[Morris L. Sorrells]]''', {{MD}}, retired paediatrician, consultant. Atherton, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''[[J. Steven Svoboda]]''', {{JD}}, founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), Berkeley, {{USSC|CA}}, USA.
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* '''Moisés Tractenberg''', {{MD}}, psychoanalyst, author, Director, NOCIRC of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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* '''[[John W. Travis]]''', {{MD}}, {{MPH}}, founder and co-director, Wellness Associates, author, Wellness Inventory and the Wellness Workbook, co-founder, [[International Coalition for Genital Integrity]], co-founder, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children. East Gipsland, {{AUSC|VIC}}, Australia.
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* '''[[J. Neville Turner]]''', 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.
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* '''Franco Viviani''', {{PhD}}, professor, physical education, cultural anthropology, and general biology, {{UNI|University of Padua|UNIPD}}. Padua, Italy.
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* '''[[Shelton Walden| Shelton Harrison Walden]]''', {{BA}}, Executive Producer and host, Walden’s Pond, WBAI radio, teacher, High School for Environmental Studies. New York, {{USSC|NY}}, USA.
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* '''[[John Warren]]''', MB, DCH, FRCP, founder and Director, National Organization of Restoring Men (NORM-UK), Director, NOCIRC of UK. Harlow, Essex, UK.
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* '''Norma Wilcox''', {{RN}}, MS, Director, Urological/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.
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* '''[[George L. Williams| George Williams]]''', {{MBChB}}, {{FRACP}}, consultant paediatrician/perinatologist, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Australia. Menai, {{AUSC|NSW}}, Australia.
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* '''[[Hugh Young]]''', BSc, journalist and radio producer, Auckland, Whangarei, Honiara (Solomon Islands), Gisborne, and Wellington. Pukerua Bay, Aotearoa, New Zealand.
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* '''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin''', {{PhD}}, '''Avraham Kahana''', and '''Ronit Tamir''', members, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. '''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin''', {{PhD}}, currently a medical student in Australia is Director, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Sturt, {{AUSC|SA}}, Australia.
  
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<center><big>Friday, 8 December</big></center>
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== Proceedings ==
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=== Program ===
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==== Thursday, 7 December ====
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* '''Welcome and Opening Remarks'''
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: ''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]] and George Williams''
  
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0800–0900: Registration<br>0900–1115: International News  • ''Peter Ball, Moderator''<br>A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.”• ''Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath''<br>Circumcision Rates in UK Males • ''John Warren''Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland • ''Linda Massie'' <br>Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation • ''Yngve Hofvander'' <br>Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual• ''Royal Phillips'' <br>Discussion <br><b>1115–1130: Break</b>
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* '''[https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=K6Ho2pAV35sC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=Circumcision+of+Boys+in+Sweden:+Proposal+for+Government+Regulation&ots=OKGI_TmK7j&sig=Z11KSVssC6yp6q8LQkeKxCI3er4#v=onepage&q=Circumcision%20of%20Boys%20in%20Sweden%3A%20Proposal%20for%20Government%20Regulation&f=false Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations]'''
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: ''[[Gregory J. Boyle]]''
  
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== Sponsor ==
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* '''An Overview'''
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The Symposium was sponsored by the [http://www.nocirc.org National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers].
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: ''George Williams, Moderator''
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:* Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis
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:: ''[[Frederick M. Hodges]]''
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:* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_10 A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Preventive Circumcision in Australia], 1880–1930
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:: ''[[Robert Darby]]''
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:* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_3 Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant, the Reasons Keep Changing]
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:: ''Michael Katz''
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* '''Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation'''
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: ''George Williams, Moderator''
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:* [https://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]
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:: ''[[J. Steven Svoboda]]''
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:* Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions
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:: ''[[Zenas Baer]]''
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:* Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World
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:: ''[[Charles A. Bonner]]''
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:* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_16 Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow!]
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:: ''[[J. Neville Turner]]''
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* '''Religious Considerations'''
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: ''Tina Kimmel, Moderator''
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:* An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook
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:: ''Moisés Tractenberg''
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:* Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation
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:: ''Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir
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:* Bris Shalem: Toward a Covenant of Wholeness
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:: ''Samuel Richmond''
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:* Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition
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:: ''LeYoni Junos''
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* '''Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias'''
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: ''Tina Kimmel, Moderator''
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:* The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition
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:: ''Norma Wilcox''
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:* The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition
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:: ''Shelton Harrison Walden''
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==== Friday, 8 December ====
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* '''International News'''
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: ''Peter Ball, Moderator''
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:* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_8 A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.]
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:: ''Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath''
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:* Circumcision Rates in UK Males
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:: ''John Warren''
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:* Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland
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:: ''Linda Massie''
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:* [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4757-3351-8_9 Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation]
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:: ''Yngve Hofvander''
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:* Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual
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:: ''Royal Phillips''
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* '''Female Genital Mutilation'''
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: ''Juliana Nkrumah, Moderator''
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:* FGM: Getting the Debate Happening at the Grassroots – The Australian Experience
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:: ''Juliana Nkrumah''
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:* Egyptian Intellectuals and Genital Integrity
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:: ''Seham Abd el Salam Mohammed''
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:* Female Circumcision: Its Effects on the Reproductive Health of Adolescents
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:: ''Pandy Ndimwibo''
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:* The Struggle Against Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision: The European Experience
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:: ''Els Leye''
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:* Sunna Budnin: An Alternative Ritual to [[Infibulation]], Invented and Carried Out in the Merka District, Somalia
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:: ''[[Pia Grassivaro Gallo]] and [[Franco Viviani]]''
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:* Genital Mutilation of Children: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
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:: ''[[Hanny Lightfoot-Klein]]''
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* '''International Symposia on Genital Integrity Award Presentations'''
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: ''[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]], Moderator''
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* '''Address of the Recipient of the Human Rights Award: Over 100% Circumcision Rate: The Short and Bizarre History of South Korean Circumcision'''
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: ''[[Dai Sik Kim]], Myung-Geol Pang, Sae Chul Kim''
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==== Saturday, 9 December====
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* '''Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation'''
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: ''[[Gregory J. Boyle]], Moderator''
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:* [[Sigmund Freud]], Male Circumcision and the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Review
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:: ''George Williams''
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:* [https://www.academia.edu/download/37247516/Bensley___Boyle_2001.pdf Physical, Sexual, and Psychological Impact of Male Infant Circumcision: An Exploratory Study]
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:: ''Gillian A. Bensley and [[Gregory J. Boyle]]''
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:* [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gregory_J_Boyle/publication/300649321_Neonatal_Circumcision/links/57d6459c08ae601b39aa7566/Neonatal-Circumcision.pdf Neonatal Circumcision: Long-Term Harmful Effects]
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:: ''Tracey Gemmel and [[Gregory J. Boyle]]''
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:* [https://www.academia.edu/download/50977307/Ritual_and_Medical_Circumcision_Ramos___Boyle__2000.pdf Ritual and Medical Circumcision Among Filipino Boys: Evidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder]
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:: ''Samuel M. Ramos and [[Gregory J. Boyle]]''
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:* Counselling Approaches for Acute Post-Circumcision Stress Disorder: A Case Study
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:: ''Brett McCann and Peter Lawrence''
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:* How to Respond to the Doctor Who Says You Must Circumcise Your Son
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:: ''Paul Fleiss''
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* '''What Exactly Is Lost With Genital Cutting?'''
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: ''[[Morris L. Sorrells]], Moderator''
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:* Separation of the Two Sensory Platforms of the Human Penis
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:: ''Kenneth A. McGrath''
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:* A Novel Research Study in Assessing Penile Sensitivity/Insensitivity Without a Measuring Device
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:: ''Peter Lawrence''
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:* Touch-Test Sensory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Findings
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:: ''[[Morris L. Sorrells]] and Tina Kimmel''
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* '''Addressing the Wounds'''
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: ''Peter Ball, Moderator''
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:* [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/29e0/ad6bc872b166a8b8b928f3500a999950c2ce.pdf Assaulted and Mutilated: A Personal Account of Circumcision Trauma]
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:: ''Shane Peterson''
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* '''Concurrent Session A: Male Genital Mutilation and Foreskin Restoration'''
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: ''Peter Ball, Moderator''
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:* Circumcision: A Festering Wound
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:: ''Daniel H. Bollinger, III''
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:* Current Foreskin Restoration Practices in Australi
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:: ''John M. Aldous''
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:* A report on the evolution and growth of foreskin restoration in Sydney Australia, since 1994
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:: ''Peter Lawrence''
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:* Doctors, File Information, and Activists Can be Worse than the Circumciser’s Knife
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:: ''William Sides''
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:* Foreskin Restoration: a video
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:: ''Peter Ball''
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* '''Concurrent Session B: The Role of Women in Ending Genital Mutilation'''
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: ''[[Jeannine Parvati Baker]], [[Mary Conant]], Linda Massie, [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]], Moderators''
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* '''Closing Keynote Address: Circumcision as a Part of the Normative Abuse of Children: Essentials for Transforming the Lives of Children'''
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: ''[[John W. Travis]]''
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* '''Closing'''
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: ''[[Jeannine Parvati Baker]]''
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{{PUB}}
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The proceedings are published in
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* {{REFbook
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|year=2001
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|title=Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem
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|url=https://www.springer.com/de/book/9780306467011
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|editor=[[George C. Denniston]], [[Frederick M. Hodges]], and [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]]
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|publisher=Springer (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press)
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|isbn=978-1-4419-3375-1
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|accessdate=2019-12-31
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}}
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== Symposium organizers ==
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* [[Marilyn Fayre Milos]], {{RN}}, [http://www.nocirc.org National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers]
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* Dr. George Williams, NOCIRC of Australia
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* Dr. [[Gregory J. Boyle]], {{UNI|Bond University|BOND}}
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* Dr. [[Frederick M. Hodges]], Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, {{UNI|University of Oxford|Oxon}}.
  
 
{{SEEALSO}}
 
{{SEEALSO}}
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* [[First International Symposium]]
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{{List of International Symposiums}}
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* [[Second International Symposium]]
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* [[Third International Symposium]]
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{{LINKS}}
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* [[Fourth International Symposium]]
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* [http://gaamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/symposium.pdf Official Symposium Brochure]
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* [[Fifth International Symposium]]
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{{ABBR}}<!--{{REF}}-->
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Latest revision as of 20:49, 1 March 2024

The Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity convened in Wesley College at the University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.

Faculty

  • Seham Abd el Salam Muhammed, M.D.[a 1], research fellow, Department of Sociology-Anthropology, the American University in Cairo, member of the Egyptian FGM Task Force, 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, SA, Australia.
  • Zenas Baer, J.D.[a 2], attorney concentrating on Federal Civil Rights Litigation. Hawley, MN, USA.
  • Jeannine Parvati Baker, MS, co-founder, Six Directions non-profit educational organisation, author and lecturer. Joseph, UT, USA.
  • Peter Ball, M.A.[a 3], MB, B.Chir., retired family practitioner, producer and director, non-surgical foreskin restoration video. Turnbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
  • Gillian A. Bensley conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology. Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
  • Daniel H. Bollinger, III, BA[a 4], founder and Director, Wabash Men’s Council, IN, USA.
  • Charles A. Bonner, J.D.[a 2], civil rights, personal injury, and medical malpractice attorney. Sausalito, CA, USA.
  • Gregory J. Boyle, Ph.D.[a 5], Professor of Psychology, Bond University. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
  • Mary Conant, RN[a 6], conscientious objector to circumcision, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child. Santa Fe, NM, USA.
  • Robert Darby, Ph.D.[a 5], scholar and editor, researched the history of the rise and decline of routine circumcision in Australia for his book on the subject. Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Paul Fleiss, M.D.[a 1], M.P.H.[a 7], paediatrician. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Tracey Gemmel, candidate for Postgraduate Diploma of Professional Psychology, Bond University. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
  • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Ph.D.[a 5], associate professor, general biology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
  • Yngve Hofvander, paediatrician, Professor, International Child Health, Uppsala University, Sweden, consultant to the Swedish International Development Authority, World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Frederick M. Hodges, Ph.D.[a 5] (Oxon), medical historian, co-editor, Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 1999). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • LeYoni Junos, Director, Amnesty International Bermuda, Bermuda Human Rights Commissioner. Hamilton, Bermuda.
  • Michael Katz, M.D.[a 1], Vice President of Research for the March of Dimes. White Plains, NY, USA.
  • Dai Sik Kim, Ph.D.[a 5], Professor, Department of Physics, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea.
  • Sae Chul Kim, M.D.[a 1], Department of Urology, College of Medicine, Chung Ang University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Tina Kimmel, MSW, M.P.H.[a 7], doctoral candidate in public health, University of California, Berkeley, Director, NOCIRC of California – East Bay. Oakland, CA, USA.
  • Peter Lawrence, MS, doctoral candidate, University of Sydney, counsellor,and founder of UNCIRC of Australia in 1994. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Els Leye, Female Genital Mutilation Project Coordinator, International Centre for Reproductive Health. Ghent, Belgium.
  • Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, M.A.[a 3], cross-cultural sexologist and 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, AZ, USA.
  • Linda Massie, BSc, PG/Dip, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland. Glen gormley, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
  • Brett McCann, Counsellor, Sexual Health Clinic, Sydney Hospital, President, Australasian Sexual Health Counsellors Society. Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Kenneth A. McGrath, VRD, M.S.[a 8] (Hons), LIBiol, MNZIMLS, RNZNVR (Rtd), Senior Lecturer in Pathology, Faculty of Health Studies, Auckland University of Technology. Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN[a 6], co-founder and Director, NationalOrganization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers(NOCIRC), Coordinator, International Symposia on Genital Integrity. San Anselmo, CA, USA.
  • Pandy S. Ndimwibo, BA[a 4] SWASA, DIP PPM, PGD Counselling,Chairman of the Uganda Reproductive Health Bureau. Kampala, Uganda, Africa.
  • Juliana Nkrumah, MS, Community Education and Development Officer, NSW Education Program on FGM, Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Myung-Geol Pang, Ph.D.[a 5], GenDix, Co., Korea, Institute of Reproductive Medicine and Population, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University. Seoul, Korea.
  • Shane Peterson, Ph.D.[a 5], International Office for Men’s Health and Gender Studies, School of Nursing and Public Health, Edith Cowan University. Canberra, ACT, Australia.
  • Royal Phillips, CBE, international childbirth instructor, columnist, Montecito Journal. Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
  • Samuel M. Ramos conducted research study for Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) degree in Psychology at Bond University. Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
  • Samuel Richmond, BA[a 4], MLS, librarian and Director, NOCIRC of California - Irvine. Irvine, CA, USA.
  • William Sides, Managing Director of Sides Engineering, developed the “Pill Tube” foreskin restoration method. Wheelers Hill, VIC, Australia.
  • Morris L. Sorrells, M.D.[a 1], retired paediatrician, consultant. Atherton, CA, USA.
  • J. Steven Svoboda, J.D.[a 2], founder and Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child (ARC), Berkeley, CA, USA.
  • Moisés Tractenberg, M.D.[a 1], psychoanalyst, author, Director, NOCIRC of Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • John W. Travis, M.D.[a 1], M.P.H.[a 7], founder and co-director, Wellness Associates, author, Wellness Inventory and the Wellness Workbook, co-founder, International Coalition for Genital Integrity, co-founder, Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children. East Gipsland, VIC, Australia.
  • J. Neville Turner, LLB (Hons), BA[a 4], barrister and solicitor, authored six books and numerous articles on child and family law, board member and former president of Oz Child. Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
  • Franco Viviani, Ph.D.[a 5], professor, physical education, cultural anthropology, and general biology, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
  • Shelton Harrison Walden, BA[a 4], Executive Producer and host, Walden’s Pond, WBAI radio, teacher, High School for Environmental Studies. New York, NY, USA.
  • John Warren, MB, DCH, FRCP, founder and Director, National Organization of Restoring Men (NORM-UK), Director, NOCIRC of UK. Harlow, Essex, UK.
  • Norma Wilcox, RN[a 6], MS, Director, Urological/GynecologicalTeaching Associate Programs, Stanford University and University of California/San Francisco Schools of Medicine and Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. San Francisco, CA, USA.
  • George Williams, MBChB[a 9], FRACP[a 10], consultant paediatrician/perinatologist, founder and Director, NOCIRC of Australia. Menai, 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, Ph.D.[a 5], Avraham Kahana, and Ronit Tamir, members, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Ph.D.[a 5], currently a medical student in Australia is Director, The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation. Sturt, SA, Australia.

Proceedings

Program

Thursday, 7 December

  • Welcome and Opening Remarks
Marilyn Fayre Milos and George Williams
Gregory J. Boyle
  • An Overview
George Williams, Moderator
  • Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis
Frederick M. Hodges
Robert Darby
Michael Katz
  • Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation
George Williams, Moderator
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
J. Neville Turner
  • Religious Considerations
Tina Kimmel, Moderator
  • An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook
Moisés Tractenberg
  • Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation
Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir
  • Bris Shalem: Toward a Covenant of Wholeness
Samuel Richmond
  • Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition
LeYoni Junos
  • Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias
Tina Kimmel, Moderator
  • The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition
Norma Wilcox
  • The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition
Shelton Harrison Walden

Friday, 8 December

  • International News
Peter Ball, Moderator
Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath
  • Circumcision Rates in UK Males
John Warren
  • Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland
Linda Massie
Yngve Hofvander
  • Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual
Royal Phillips
  • Female Genital Mutilation
Juliana Nkrumah, Moderator
  • FGM: Getting the Debate Happening at the Grassroots – The Australian Experience
Juliana Nkrumah
  • Egyptian Intellectuals and Genital Integrity
Seham Abd el Salam Mohammed
  • Female Circumcision: Its Effects on the Reproductive Health of Adolescents
Pandy Ndimwibo
  • The Struggle Against Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision: The European Experience
Els Leye
  • Sunna Budnin: An Alternative Ritual to Infibulation, Invented and Carried Out in the Merka District, Somalia
Pia Grassivaro Gallo and Franco Viviani
  • Genital Mutilation of Children: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
  • International Symposia on Genital Integrity Award Presentations
Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderator
  • Address of the Recipient of the Human Rights Award: Over 100% Circumcision Rate: The Short and Bizarre History of South Korean Circumcision
Dai Sik Kim, Myung-Geol Pang, Sae Chul Kim

Saturday, 9 December

  • Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation
Gregory J. Boyle, Moderator
  • Sigmund Freud, Male Circumcision and the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Review
George Williams
Gillian A. Bensley and Gregory J. Boyle
Tracey Gemmel and Gregory J. Boyle
Samuel M. Ramos and Gregory J. Boyle
  • Counselling Approaches for Acute Post-Circumcision Stress Disorder: A Case Study
Brett McCann and Peter Lawrence
  • How to Respond to the Doctor Who Says You Must Circumcise Your Son
Paul Fleiss
  • What Exactly Is Lost With Genital Cutting?
Morris L. Sorrells, Moderator
  • Separation of the Two Sensory Platforms of the Human Penis
Kenneth A. McGrath
  • A Novel Research Study in Assessing Penile Sensitivity/Insensitivity Without a Measuring Device
Peter Lawrence
  • Touch-Test Sensory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Findings
Morris L. Sorrells and Tina Kimmel
  • Addressing the Wounds
Peter Ball, Moderator
Shane Peterson
  • Concurrent Session A: Male Genital Mutilation and Foreskin Restoration
Peter Ball, Moderator
  • Circumcision: A Festering Wound
Daniel H. Bollinger, III
  • Current Foreskin Restoration Practices in Australi
John M. Aldous
  • A report on the evolution and growth of foreskin restoration in Sydney Australia, since 1994
Peter Lawrence
  • Doctors, File Information, and Activists Can be Worse than the Circumciser’s Knife
William Sides
  • Foreskin Restoration: a video
Peter Ball
  • Concurrent Session B: The Role of Women in Ending Genital Mutilation
Jeannine Parvati Baker, Mary Conant, Linda Massie, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderators
  • Closing Keynote Address: Circumcision as a Part of the Normative Abuse of Children: Essentials for Transforming the Lives of Children
John W. Travis
  • Closing
Jeannine Parvati Baker

Publications

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See also

External links

Abbreviations

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g REFweb Doctor of Medicine, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021. In the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries, the abbreviation MD is common.
  2. ↑ a b c REFweb Juris Doctor, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Also known as Doctor of Law or Doctor of Jurisprudence.)
  3. ↑ a b REFweb Master of Arts, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  4. ↑ a b c d e REFweb Bachelor of Arts, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (BA or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium or artium baccalaureus.)
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j REFweb Doctor of Philosophy, Wikipedia. Retrieved 16 June 2021. (Also abbreviated as D.Phil.)
  6. ↑ a b c d REFweb Registered nurse, Wikipedia. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
  7. ↑ a b c REFweb Master of Public Health or Master of Philosophy in Public Health, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  8. ↑ REFweb Master of Science, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Latin: magisterii scientiae; also abbreviated MS, MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.)
  9. ↑ REFweb Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Wikipedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021. (Latin: medicinae baccalaureus, baccalaureus chirurgiae; abbreviated in many ways, most commonly MBBS, but also MB ChB, BMBS, MB BCh, MB BChir, and BM BCh.)
  10. ↑ REFweb Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Wikipedia. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
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