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One should draw a distinction between non-US statements and US statements.
===Non-US statementsAustralasia === The [https://www.knmg.nl Royal Dutch Medical Association] {KNMG) published a statement regarding the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors in 2010. The Netherlands is a nation where [[human rights]] are respected,<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/ |title=Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child |trans-title= |language= |last=Smith |first=Jacqueline |author-link= |publisher=Netherlands Institute of Human Rights |website=CIRP |date=1998 |accessdate=2020-02-04 |format= |quote=}}</ref> so it should be no surprise that the statement emphasizes the protection of the human rights of male minors and the reduction in the number of non-therapeutic circumcisions of children as much as possible. It finds no medical purpose for child non-therapeutic circumcision. * {{REFweb |url=https://www.knmg.nl/circumcision |archived= |title=Non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors |trans-title= |language=English |last=Kruseman |first=Arie |author-link= |publisher=Royal Dutch Medical Association |website=www.knmg.nl |date=2010-05-27 |accessdate=2020-07-31 |format=PDF |quote=}}
The [https://www.racp.edu.au Royal Australasian College of Physicians] (2010) released a 28-page updated position statement on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys in September 2010. This statement is deeply flawed and outmoded in 2020. It seems to be designed to protect the physicians' income from performing non-therapeutic circumcision. The statement accepts at face value the false, now disproved,<ref name="boyle-hill2011">{{REFjournal
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=== Canada ===
The [[Canadian Paediatric Society]] (2015) issued a new statement regarding non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. This statement was prompted by the three seriously flawed HIV studies of adult males in Africa, that have now been disproved,<ref name="boyle-hill2011" /> and caused the retirement of the excellent previous 1996 statement.<ref name="cps1996">{{REFjournal
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=== Netherlands ===
The [https://www.knmg.nl Royal Dutch Medical Association] {KNMG) published a statement regarding the non-therapeutic circumcision of male minors in 2010. The Netherlands is a nation where [[human rights]] are respected,<ref name="smith1998">{{REFweb
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/smith/
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|publisher=Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
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}}</ref> so it should be no surprise that the statement emphasizes the protection of the human rights of male minors and the reduction in the number of non-therapeutic circumcisions of children as much as possible. It finds no medical purpose for child non-therapeutic circumcision.
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|date=2010-05-27
|accessdate=2020-07-31
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=== United Kingdom ===
The [https://www.bma.org.uk/ British Medical Association] 28-page statement (2019) focuses on legal and ethical advice to its fellows to help keep them out of trouble in a legal and regulatory environment that is increasingly unfriendly to practitioners of non-therapeutic male circumcision. It has little to say about the medical aspects of non-therapeutic circumcision. To its credit it cites the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents#aofs Human Rights Act 1998] and calls for practitioners to respect the child's rights under that act.
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