15,940
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Human rights: Add ICCPR section.
Sweden has not yet acted to protect the rights of boys to ''security of person'' that is guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights (1950).
===ICCPR===
Sweden ratified the ''International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights'' in 1972.
====Article two====
Article 2(1) of that covenant provides:
<blockquote>
1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its Jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
</blockquote>
Some rights recognized by the Covenant relevant to the non-therapeutic circumcision of male children are:
====Article seven====
Degrading treatment
====Article nine====
Security of person
====Article twenty-four====
<blockquote>
Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society and the State.
</blockquote>
Sweden has covenanted to provide protection of these rights.<ref name="iccpr1967">{{REFdocument
|title=International Covenant on Civil and Political Right
|url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1976/03/19760323%2006-17%20AM/Ch_IV_04.pdf
|contribution=
|last=
|first=
|publisher=United Nations
|format=PDF
|date=1967
|accessdate=2020-10-05
}}</ref>
Sweden has not complied with its pledge with regard to protection of the rights of boys which are violated by non-therapeutic child circumcision.
{{SEEALSO}}