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}}</ref> but has not prohibited non-therapeutic circumcision of non-consenting minors.


Although the UK has been a member of the Council of Europe, a human rights organisation since 1949, the ICCPR since 1976, and the CRC since 1991, the General Medical Council has not revised its policies and procedures to recognize the human rights of child patients to the physical security of their person.
Although the UK has been a member of the Council of Europe, a human rights organisation since 1949, the ICCPR since 1976, and the CRC since 1991, the General Medical Council has not revised its policies and procedures to recognise the human rights of child patients to the physical security of their person.


==The guidance of the British Medical Association==
==The guidance of the British Medical Association==