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}}</ref> and is pledged to advance the enumerated rights in its territory. It may be sued in the [https://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=homejk European Court of Human Rights] for violations of its duty.
==Medical science==
Denmark has produced important medical studies regarding the [[foreskin]].
[[Jakob Øster]], a Danish physician in Randers, Denmark who conducted school examinations, reported his findings on the examination of school-boys in Denmark, where circumcision is rare. Øster (1968) found that the incidence of fusion of the foreskin with the glans penis steadily declines with increasing age and foreskin retractability increases with age.<ref name="Øster1968">{{REFjournal
|last=Øster
|first=Jakob
|author-link=Jakob Øster
|etal=no
|title=Further Fate of the Foreskin: Incidence of Preputial Adhesions, Phimosis, and Smegma among Danish Schoolboys
|trans-title=
|language=English
|journal=Arch Dis Child
|location=
|date=1968
|volume=43
|issue=
|pages=200-3
|url=https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/43/228/200.full.pdf
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=5689532
|pubmedCID=2019851
|DOI=10.1136/adc.43.228.200
|accessdate=2020-10-04
}}</ref>