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wikify Parental rights, fix Grundgesetz typo
Some have argued that [[Art. 6 GG| Article Six]] when combined with [[Art. 140 GG| Article 140]] provides a right for parents to order the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. Article Six, paragraph three, clearly indicates that parents have responsibilities and duties to their children. This would include protection of the rights of the child. Article 140 incorporates Section III: Religion and Religious Associations of the [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weimar_constitution Weimar Constitution of 1919] into the Basic Law. There is nothing in it that suggests that parents have a right to violate the rights of their children.
[[Parental rights ]] are counterbalanced by the rights of the child under the ''GrundegesetzGrundgesetz'', which are discussed above. Parents have a right and a duty to respect and protect their child's human rights.
Article 33 of the ''GrundegesetzGrundgesetz'' gives the federal government of Germany full responsibility for foreign relations. Germany signed the ''[https://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CCPR.aspx International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]'' (1966) on 9 October 1968. The ICCPR was ratified on 17 December 1973. It entered into force on 23 March 1976.
By this treaty, Germany contracted "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."<ref>ICCPR, Article 9(1).</ref>