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==Application of the ICCPR to non-therapeutic circumcision of children== | ==Application of the ICCPR to non-therapeutic circumcision of children== | ||
Articles 7, 9, and 24 are applicable to male and female non-therapeutic circumcision of children. Each nation that is a state-party under the ICCPR, which took effect in 1976, pledges to enforce those rights for its citizens. | Articles 1, 7, 9, and 24 are applicable to male and female non-therapeutic circumcision of children. Each nation that is a state-party under the ICCPR, which took effect in 1976, pledges to enforce those rights for its citizens. | ||
====Article one==== | |||
Article one provides in part: | |||
1. All peoples have the right of self-determimtion, "By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. | |||
Self-determination is the right to decide for one's self. This provides for genital autonomy, which is the right to decide for one's self if one's genitals are to be surgically altered. Genital autonomy is provided by delaying a non-therapeutic surgical operation on a child until the child is of age at which he or she can decide for one's self. | |||
====Article seven==== | ====Article seven==== | ||
Article 7 provides: | Article 7 provides: | ||