Sixth International Symposium
The Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity convened at the University of Sydney, Sidney, New South Wales, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.
Proceedings
0800–0900: Registration
0900–0915: Welcome and Opening Remarks• Marilyn Milos and George Williams
0915–1000: Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations• Gregory J. Boyle
1000–1115: An Overview • George Williams, Moderator
Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis • Frederick Mansfield Hodges
A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Preventive Circumcision in Australia, 1880–1930 • Robert Darby
Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant, the Reasons Keep Changing • Michael Katz
1115–1130: Break
1130–1300: Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation • George Williams, Moderator
Comparative Legal Analysis of Body Mutilation Practices on Children • J. Steven Svoboda
Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions • Zenas Baer
Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World • Charles Bonner
Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow! • J. Neville Turner
1300–1430: Lunch
1430–1600: Religious Considerations • Tina Kimmel, Moderator
An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook • Moisés Tractenberg
Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation • Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir Bris Shalem:
Toward a Covenant of Wholeness • Samuel Richmond
Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition • LeYoni Junos
1600–1615: Break
1615–1700: Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias• Tina Kimmel, Moderator
The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition • Norma Wilcox
The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition • Shelton Harrison Walden
1700–1730: Discussion
0800–0900: Registration
0900–1115: International News • Peter Ball, Moderator
A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.”• Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath
Circumcision Rates in UK Males • John WarrenPrevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland • Linda Massie
Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation • Yngve Hofvander
Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual• Royal Phillips
Discussion
1115–1130: Break
Sponsor
The Symposium was sponsored by the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.