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==Human rights==
===Council of Europe===
Denmark became a founder member of the [[Resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe| Council of Europe]] on 5 May 1949.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/denmark
The ''Right to Security of Person'' is provided by Article Five of the ECHR.
===ICCPR===
Denmark is a state-party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1967). Article 2(1) of that covenant provides:
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1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its Jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
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Some rights recognized by the Covenant relevant to the non-therapeutic circumcision of male children are:
Article seven
Degrading treatment
Article nine
Security of person
Article twenty-four
Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society and the State.
Denmark has covenanted to provide protection of these rights.
==Medical science==