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Denmark is a Nordic nation in Northern Europe. Like other Nordic nations, the people abhor child circumcision.
Denmark has taken the leading role in challenging the legitimacy of circumcision. In 2003, the country’s Children’s Ombudsman classified circumcision as a violation of children’s rights. In 2008, the National Children’s Council proposed a ban on circumcising all children under the age of fifteen, which would have made the Jewish brit mila a crime.<ref>{{REFjournal
|url=http://www.thetower.org/article/the-scandal-of-scandinavia/
|title=The Scandal of Scandinavia
|date=2013-04
|first=Liam
|last=Hoare
|journal=The Tower Magazine
|accessdate=2020-12-25
}}</ref>
In 2013, children's ombudsmen from Sweden, Norway, [[Finland]], Denmark, and Iceland, along with the Chair of the Danish Children's Council and the children's spokesperson for Greenland, passed a resolution that emphasized the decision to be circumcised should belong to the individual, who should be able to give informed consent.<ref name="resolution2">{{REFweb