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The UK signed the ''Convention on the Rights of the Child'' (CRC) on 19 April 1990 an formally ratified the CRC treaty on 16 December 1991.<ref name="ratstatus" /> Article 2 of the CRC require the UK to respect and ensure the rights specified in the CRC to each child within its jurisdiction.
===Human Rights Act 1998===
The United Kingdom has long been became a founder-member of the [https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal Council of Europe] on 5 May 1949 and therefore subject to the [https://rm.coe.int/1680a2353d ''European Convention on Human Rights''](1950). Under that ''Convention '' the United Kingdom may be sued in the [https://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home&c European Court of Human Rights] (Strasbourg) for alleged human rights violations.
Certain parts of the Convention seems applicable to the non-therapeutic circumcision of minor boys:
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The case clearly established the right of children in the UK to protectionunder the ECHR. Nevertheless, no known cases have applied international human rights law specifically to the practice of non-therapeutic child circumcision in the UK.
The human rights provisions of the Convention have now been brought into domestic law by the [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents Human Rights Act 1998], so violations of human rights law could be litigated in the domestic courts of the UK.