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Sweden is a Nordic nation in Northern Europe. Like other Nordic nations, the people abhor child non-therapeutic [[circumcision]].

In 2013, children's ombudsmen from Sweden, [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Denmark]], and Iceland, along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the children's spokesperson for Greenland, passed a resolution that emphasized the decision to be [[circumcised ]] should belong to the individual, who should be able to give [[informed consent]].<ref name="resolution2">{{REFweb

The Nordic Association of Clinical Sexologists (2013) supports the position of the Nordic Association of Ombudsmen who reason that circumcision violates the individual's [[human rights ]] by denying the male child his ability to make the decision for himself.<ref name="nordicsexologits2013">{{REFdocument

The resolution calls on all member States to "''examine the prevalence of different categories of non-medically justified operations and interventions impacting on the [[physical integrity ]] of children in their respective countries, as well as the specific practices related to them, and to carefully consider them in light of the best interests of the child in order to define specific lines of action for each of them; initiate focused awareness-raising measures for each of these categories of violation of the physical integrity of children, to be carried out in the specific contexts where information may best be conveyed to families, such as the medical sector (hospitals and individual practitioners), schools, religious communities or service providers; [...].''"

Sweden ratified the ''[[International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights]]'' in 1972.

1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its Jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Some rights recognized by the ''Covenant'' relevant to the non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] of male children are:

This means that all children, male and female, and regardless of parental religious views, shall enjoy the same [[human rights]].

}}</ref> Nevertheless, actual practice seems not to have changed and Sweden still has ''not'' fulfilled its several promises to protect the [[human rights ]] and physical integrity of boys.

The 2001 circumcision law makes non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] somewhat safer because a licensed medical doctor must be in attendance. It requires the use of anaesthesia so the extreme [[pain| pain ]] and [[trauma]] of child circumcision is reduced. However it stops short of protecting the [[human rights]] of the child. The child will still suffer harm due to the [[amputation ]] of the multi-functional [[foreskin]].

* The [[Vänsterpartiet]] (Left Party}(V) proposes a legal ban on non-therapeutic [[circumcision ]] ([[MGM| genital mutilation]]) of boys.