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'''Assault is not permitted in any country or state on earth by law.''' This should mean that this topic should have been dealt with worldwide for children.
However, many (adult) supporters of circumcision believe that removing the healthy [[foreskin]] from the healthy [[penis]] of a healthy boy (often enough without anesthesia or even anesthesia) is not a physical injury. In addition, it is often argued that something is allowed if it is not forbidden ''explicitly''. However, if, for example, [[bodily harm ]] is explicitly forbidden, but genital mutilation as a type of bodily harm is ''only'' forbidden implicitly, it is difficult to derive permission from this.
The legal situation on the subject of [[HGM]] is very different around the world. This article attempts to summarize the applicable laws with regard to [[HGM]] in the case of minors, without claiming to be exhaustive:
=== United Kingdom ===
==== Statutes ====
* [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/24-25/100/contents Offences Against the Person Act 1861]
* [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/23-24/12 Children and Young Persons Act 1933]
* [[Children Act 1989]]
* [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents Human Rights Act 1998]
==== Case law ====* [https://www.globalhealthrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/HL-1985-Gillick-v.-West-Norfolk-and-Wisbech-Area-Health-Authority-and-Anr..pdf Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority and another] (1985)* [https://www.lawteacher.net/free-law-essays/criminal-law/r-v-brown-discrimination-0956.php R v Brown] (1994)* [[Children Act 1989Re B and G (children) (No 2) EWFC 3]](2015)* [[Re L and B (CHILDREN)]] (2016) ==== Commentary ====* {{REFdocument |title=Male Circumcision: A Legal Affront |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price-uklc/ |contribution= |last=Price |first=Christopher P. |init=CP |author-link=Christopher P. Price |publisher=Circumcision Reference Library |format= |date=1996-12 |accessdate=2021-09-07}}* {{REFjournal |last=Edge |first=Peter W. |init=PW |author-link= |title=Male circumcision after the human rights act 1998 |journal=J Civil Liberties |date=2000 |volume=5 |issue= |pages=320 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/edge1/ |accessdate=2020-05-10}}* {{REFjournal |last=Fox |first=Marie |init=M |author-link= |last2=Thomson |first2=Michael |init2=M |author2-link= |etal=so |title=Bodily Integrity, Embodiment and the Regulation of Parental Choice |journal=Journal of Law and Society |location= |date=2017 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=501-31 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/122232/3/Fox_Thomson_Bod_Int_revised%206March17.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2020-09-08}}* {{REFjournal |last=Möller |first=Kai |init=K |author-link= |title=Male and Female Genital Cutting: Between the Best Interest of the Child and Genital Mutilation |journal=Oxford Journal of Legal Studies |date=2020-06-26 |volume= |issue= |pages= |url=https://academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ojls/gqaa001/5862902 |DOI=10.1093/ojls/gqaa001 |accessdate=2020-09-08}}
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