Twelfth International Symposium

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The Twelfth International Symposium on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Human Rights convened at the Radison Blu Royal Hotel in Helsinki, Finland on September 30 through October 3, 2012.

Faculty

  • Peter Ball, MA, MB, BChair, a retired family practitioner, is Vice Chair of NORM-UK and an Intactivist. He has produced a video, Restoration in Focus, to aid men interested in non-surgical restoration and has represented NORM-UK on television and numerous radio stations, including the BBC. Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
  • Brian Earp is a Research Associate at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, where he conducts research in psychology, philosophy, and ethics. Brian’s undergraduate degree is from Yale University, where he was elected President of the Yale Philosophy Society and served as Editor-in-Chief of both the Yale Philosophy Review and the International Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology. His empirical research garnered the Robert G. Crowder Prize from the Department of Psychology, and received coverage by the BBC, New Scientist, and dozens of leading international newspapers, from the Times of India to the Sydney Morning Herald. Brian’s graduate training is from the University of Oxford, where he was a Henry Fellow at New College, and runner-up for the Demuth Prize in Science Writing. Currently, Brian is guest editing a special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics on the topic of religiously motivated circumcision, and with the Chair of Practical Ethics at Oxford, Professor Julian Savulescu, is writing a book on the ethics of neuro-enhancement. Oxford, UK.
  • Morten Frisch, MD, PhD, DSc (Med), is a full-time re-searcher at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen and an adjunct professor of sexual health epidemiology at Aalborg University, Denmark. For more than 20 years, he has studied sexual risk factors for and correlates of chronic diseases, as well as sociodemographic, health-related, and lifestyle-related determinants of sexual health and ill-health. In 2011, Frisch and co-authors published a study in the International Journal of Epidemiology showing a statistically significant excess of sexual problems in circumcised men and their spouses. That study has obtained substantial international attention and was the most heavily debated scientific study during the heated circumcision debate in Denmark in the summer of 2012. Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • John Geisheker, JD, LLM, a native of New Zealand, is the Executive Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.), an international non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington. As Director of D.O.C., he appears at medical and childbirth conventions, as well as educational institutions, presenting on the medical science, bioethics, and legality of merely cultural, non-therapeutic infant genital surgeries. He is the author of numerous publications on the subject. Mr. Geisheker has been a litigator, law lecturer, arbitrator, and mediator, specializing in medical disputes, for 30 years. He is proud that, in the 1960s, his native New Zealand fully abandoned medicalized infant circumcision as unnecessary-with no detectable loss of child health. Seattle, Washington, USA.
  • Tim Hammond, Director, National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males, and Director, Whose Body, Whose Rights? Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Pia Henttonen, MD, MSW, is a sex educator and sexual health promoter. She is the Project Manager of “Mother does not quite understand,” of The Finnish Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, which is funded, 2010-2014, by the Finnish Slot Machine Association. The project is targeted at families having a parent with an intellectual disability or a wide range of learning disabilities. The mission of The Finnish Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is to provide support for its members, to protect and develop the social equality and rights of the intellectually disabled and their families, and to promote its members’ quality of life. Tampere, Finland.
  • Frederick M. Hodges, Dphil (Oxon), is a medical historian, the co-author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Circumcision: Untold Facts on America’s Most Widely Performed-and Most Unnecessary-Surgery (Warner Books 2002), and co-editor of the proceedings of the International Symposia on Circumcision, including Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice; Understanding Circumcision: A MultiDisciplinary Approach to a MultiDimensional Problem; Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society; Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision, Culture, Controversy, and Change, Circumcision and Human Rights; Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice, and The Rights of the Child: Ensuring Every Child’s Fundamental Right to Body Ownership and Protection from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements (In press, Springer). Berkeley, California, USA.
  • Staffan Janson is a Swedish paediatrician, Professor of Public Health at Karlstad University and in Social Paediatrics at the University of Örebro, Sweden. He is head of the Committee on Ethics and Children’s Rights within the Swedish Paediatric Association. His research has mainly concentrated on child abuse and neglect and to the prevention of child injuries. Örebro, Sweden.
  • Julius Kaggwa is Director of Support Initiative for People with atypical sex Development (SIPD), a project working to promote human rights protection and holistic support for intersex children and adults. He is also a lead player of the civil society coalition on human rights and constitutional law, which is at the forefront of campaigning against the anti-homosexuality bill that was recently tabled before the Ugandan parliament. Born and raised in Uganda, Julius is a human rights advocate who has done extensive independent research in the fields of genders and sexualities, as well as engaged widely in advocating for the human rights of intersex people and other sexual minorities in Uganda and throughout Africa. While SIPD’s main offices are located in Kampala, our work is community-based and we are currently working in 25 districts of Uganda scattered across the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western regions of the country. Julius is commended for his sensitive and professional approach to community engagement and education on matters of sexuality, sexual diversity, sexual health, and gender identities from a human rights perspective. Kampala, Uganda, Africa.
  • Maarit Kuoppala, MSc, has been a volunteer breastfeeding-support mother and lactivist since 1997. She is the Executive Director of the Breastfeeding Support Association in Finland. Espoo, Finland.
  • Malla Laiti is the Planning Coordinator in Regional Administery State. She is working at Roma affairs in Southern Finland. This area shelters about half the Roma people in Finland. Vantaa, Finland.
  • Martti Laiti, a sales manager in the metal industry,was born near the Norwegian border in North Finland. He is the husband of Malla Laiti. Vantaa, Finland.



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