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The '''Twelfth International Symposium''' on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Human Rights convened at the [https://www.radissonhotels.com/en-us/hotels/radisson-blu-helsinki-royal Radison Blu Royal Hotel] in Helsinki, Finland on September 30 through October 3, 2012.

* '''Donna Rigney Macris''', RN, CNM, is a decades-long human rights activist in issues of genital integrity. She has served on the Board of Directors of NOCIRC, was a co-founder of the International Symposia on Circumcision, and co-authored the ''[[Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision (1989)| Declaration of the First International Symposium on Circumcision]]''. Her writings on the issue of circumcision, the rights of infants and children, and the functions of male genitalia have been published. She has spoken nationally and internationally, promoting conscientious objector status for nurses and midwives in opposition to newborn circumcision. She has been guest faculty in midwifery programs, including Stanford University’s ''Women’s Health Care Training Project''. Her Master’s Degree Research at St. Louis University centered upon informed consent for circumcision. Fresno, California, USA.

* '''Finnish Mother''' is a strong supporter of human rights and sexual integrity. Most of all, she is the mother of a little boy who was circumcised illegally by his father and a senior physician. Helsinki, Finland.

* '''Michael Thomson''' is Professor of Law at Keele University. He has published extensively in the areas of Health Care Law and Law and Gender. He is the author of Reproducing Narrative: Gender, Reproduction and Law (Dartmouth, 1998) and Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body (Routledge, 2007). He has published widely on issues relating to the genital cutting of children and, most recently, male genital cutting as a response to HIV/AIDS. He is a trustee for Genital Autonomy. Staffordshire, UK.

* '''Xavier P. Valla''', Licence Histoire de l’Art à la Sorbonne, has been the President of the Association contre la Mutilation des Enfants since 1991, he is a tourist guide in Southeast Asia, and a specialist in Khmer art and history. Paris, France.

* '''Gert van Dijk''', a medical analyst, philosopher, and medical ethicist, holds a part-time position as secretary of the Medical Ethics Committee at the department of Medical Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, and is also a member of the Council for reproductive technology and the End-of-life committee. He is independent chair of the moral deliberation at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He also holds a part-time position as an ethicist at the Royal Dutch Medical Association (KNMG). His main interests include end-of-life questions (euthanasia, terminal sedations, severely handicapped newborns), moral problems regarding reproductive technology, post-mortem and living organ-donation, non-therapeutic circumcision of minors, intercultural care, alternative medicine, clinical ethics, vaccination, and moral deliberation. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

* '''Mika Venhola''', MD, PhD, is a paediatric surgeon with a keen interest in children ́s rights, especially on intersex and transgender issues. He works in Oulu University Hospital. Oulu, Finland.

* Dinner on Your Own

* On Entertainment: Traditional Finnish Music<br>