Worldwide Day of Genital Autonomy
The World Wide Day of Genital Autonomy (WWDOGA) is a campaign day for the genital autonomy of children which has been initiated by the German "Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener im MOGiS e.V.". Since 2013, it is celebrated on each 7th of May. This date has been chosen because on May 7th, 2012, the District Court of Cologne (Germany) has judged for the first time in Germany, that the circumcision of male children is an assault.
The aim of the WWDOGA is to propagate the right of bodily integrity and sexual self-determination for all children all over the world.
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Accompanying Events
In 2014, a Scientific Symposium took place one day earlier in Cologne, being organized by MOGiS e.V. and pro familia NRW.
In 2015, the WWDOGA was followed by a "Genital Autonomy" conference in the Haus der Jugend (Youth Hostel) in Frankfurt/Main.
In 2016, the WWDOGA in Germany was accompanied by four in film and discussion events, where the films Circumcision by Ari Libsker, Hibos Lied - Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung und die Macht der Tradition by Renate Bernhard and Sigrid Dethlof, and the animated short film Hermes und Aphrodite by Gregor Zootsky were shown in Munich, Düsseldorf, Cologne, and Berlin.
In 2017, the WWDOGA in Germany was introduced by a press conference in Berlin on May 4th, and closed by a symposium Jungenbeschneidung in Deutschland - eine Bestandsaufnahme (Circumcision on boys in Germany - an inventory) at the university Düsseldorf on May 8th.
List of Speakers at the WWDOGA in Cologne
2015
- Gislinde Nauy, Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener at MOGiS e.V.
- Lloyd Schofield, Bay Area Intactivists (speech read by Martin Novoa)
- Guy Sinden, Droit au corps, Beschneidungsforum.de
- Marilyn Milos, NOCIRC (USA)
- Ute Wellstein (speaker of the Regional Working Group of the Secular Greens in Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Ali Utlu, Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener at MOGiS e.V.
- Viola Schäfer, intaktiv e.V.
- Christian Bahls, MOGiS e.V.
- Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk, TERRE DES FEMMES
- Shemuel Garber, intaktiv e.V. (USA)
- Mina Ahadi, Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime (Germany)
- Kaan Göktaş (Istanbul)
- Renate Bernhard, activist against (FGM), member of pro familia NRW
- Martin Novoa, Legal and Bioethics Advisor to "Doctors Opposing Circumcision"
- Markus Bauer, Zwischengeschlecht.org / StopIGM.org
- Lena Nyhus, Intact Denmark
2014
- Victor Schiering, Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener at MOGiS e.V.
- David Smith, NORM-UK
- Mohamed Louizi
- Viola Schäfer, Intaktiv e.V.
- Dr. Christoph Kupferschmid, BVKJ
- Mina Ahadi, Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime (Germany)
- Christa Müller, (I)NTACT
- Dr. Jérôme Segal, Universität Paris-Sorbonne
- Renate Bernhard, pro familia NRW
- Christian Bahls, MOGiS e.V.
2013
- Viola Schäfer, Intaktiv e.V.
- Mina Ahadi, Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime (Germany)
- Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk, TERRE DES FEMMES
- Alexander Bachl, Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener atMOGiS e.V.
- Bernd Kammermeier, gbs Rhine-Main (Germany)
- Dr. med. Wolfram Hartmann, BVKJ
- Christian Bahls, MOGiS e.V.
Supporting Organizations
Africa
Australia
Canada
- Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CAN-FAP) (Canada)
- Children's Health & Human Rights Partnership (Canada)
France
Germany
- Beschneidungsforum.de
- Bundesweiter Arbeitskreis Säkulare Grüne - (Nationwide Working Group of Secular Greens)
- BVKJ - (Professional Association of Paediatricians (Germany))
- DAKJ - (German Academy for Childrens and Youth Medicine)
- Deutscher Frauenring - (German Women Circle)
- Facharbeitskreis Beschneidungsbetroffener - (Experts Circle of Circumcision Affected Ones) - at MOGiS e.V.
- Forum Männer - (Forum Men in Theory and Practice of Gender Relations)
- Giordano Bruno Foundation
- HVD - (German Humanists Union)
- IBKA - (International League of Non-religious and Atheists)
- (I)NTACT
- Intaktiv
- MOGiS e.V. - A Voice for Affected Ones
- NetzwerkB - (Victim's Network of Gender-biased Violence)
- Partei der Humanisten (Humanists Party)
- Piratenpartei - (Pirates Party)
- Pro familia NRW
- Schlupfwinkel e.V. Nuremberg
- TABU e.V.
- TERRE DES FEMMES
- Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime - (Central Council of Ex-Muslims)
Great Britain
Israel
Kenya
- Intact Denmark (Danmark)
- Just a Snip (Danmark)
- Sexpo Foundation (Finland)
Switzerland
USA
- Attorneys for the Rights of the Child, California (USA)
- Bay Area Intactivists (USA)
- Doctors Opposing Circumcision (USA)
- NOCIRC (USA)