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→Protection of physical integrity of boys: Add Recommendation 2023
This first resolution of its kind by a European institution is not legally binding, but an important signal for further debate. It shifts the approach of the point of view of the topic from the current medical domain towards a human rights approach and identifies the right to bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination. It calls the for the end of non-therapeutic cosmetic medical and surgical interventions.
===Recommendation 2023===
The Parliamentary Assembly issued a recommendation the Committee of Ministers to:
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4.1. take fully into account the issue of children’s right to physical integrity when preparing and adopting its new strategy for the rights of the child as of 2015, in particular as regards the fight against all forms of violence against children and the promotion of child participation in decisions concerning them;
4.2. consider the explicit inclusion of children's right to physical integrity, as well as their right to participate in any decision concerning them, into relevant Council of Europe standards and,to this end,to examine in a comprehensive manner in which Council of Europe instruments such rights should be included.<ref name="resolution2023">{{REFdocument
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