International Coalition for Genital Integrity

The International Coalition for Genital Integrity (ICGI) was an alliance of organizations dedicated to protecting the normal anatomy of males, females and intersex, and was a supporter of the Genital Integrity Resolution. ICGI was formed to coalesce the many activist organizations, each with a specific focus, into one, common voice. ICGI was an organizational member coalition funded by private donations. The membership included organizations devoted to stopping male, female, and intersex genital cutting who all agreed that every human has a right to a whole and intact body.

ICCG's initial program was the dissemination of press releases for its membership. Originally, this was accomplished via a FAX-tree system of volunteers. This was replaced with email blast software. Online press release services permitted greater market penetration. Eventually, the member organizations began issuing their own press releases and the program was closed. Nearly 200 press releases were issued by ICGI.

Defunding Medicaid reimbursement at the state level was a major project for ICGI. By 1985, six states voluntarily defunded newborn circumcision from Medicaid: California, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Washington, and Oregon. The Medicaid Project was responsible for defunding 11 more states: Arizona, Missouri, Utah, North Carolina, Montana, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maine, and Minnesota during the 2002 to 2005 timeframe.

ICGI was the first intactivist organization to use a newsfeed, what people now call a blog (weblog). The syndicated newsfeed was hand coded using the RSS/XML protocol.

ICGI was a member of Child Rights Information Network (CRIN).

From its founding in 4/7/1999, Rio Cruz was the director. Dan Bollinger became the director in 4/22/2003 until its closing in 7/14/2015.

Contents

Goals

• Provide a unified voice to the various, specifically missioned genital integrity groups throughout the world.
• Invite philosophically compatible, but unaffiliated organizations, to join with them in protecting non-consenting humans from forced genital mutilations.
• Create and disseminate educational information and teaching/learning opportunities for raising consciousness about the forced genital mutilations of minors or others through collective press releases, symposia, letter writing campaigns, tv, radio, Internet programs etc.
• Pursue vigorously, through their legal representatives and the courts, human rights violations involving genital mutilation.

Recent activities

The ICGI.org website is archived. As of January 2021, the domain has been reactivated and currently fills with unrelated contents.

External links

• Official website. Retrieved 24 May 2021
• (25 July 2017). Former ICGI website content (archive URL). Retrieved 24 May 2021.