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[[File:MikaelAktor.jpg|thumb|Mikael Aktor]]
'''Mikael Aktor''' ({{LifeData|1949-06-12}}), is a Jewish [[Intactivists|intactivist]] from [[Denmark]], Associate Professor, {{PhD}}, {{UNI|University of Southern Denmark|SDU}}, Department of History, Study of Religions in Odense, and vice chairman of [[Intact Denmark]].
He spoke at the [[WWDOGA]] 2017 and 2018 in Cologne, Germany.
One day after the [[WWDOGA]] 2017, he held a speech about "Jewish Voices in the Danish Debate on [[MGM]] and the Danish Legal Situation" on the Symposium "Jungenbeschneidung in Deutschland - Eine Bestandsaufnahme" (Circumcision on boys in Germany - an inventory) in Düsseldorf.
The head of The Jewish Society in [[Denmark]], Dan Rosenberg Asmussen, urged Aktor to read a statement of Rosenberg Asmussen which informs the auditorium of the Scientific Symposium, that Aktor does not speak on behalf of all Danish Jews. Aktor did so but also stated that he had never claimed to speak for all Danish Jews. The host of the Symposium, German University professor [[Matthias Franz]], later informed the auditorium, that Rosenberg Asmussen had also asked him to publish the statement which he refused to do, saying that science will never follow advices from religion.
In 2020 he spoke in a video message on [[WWDOGA]]:
But from the reactions to our slogan it's clear that the accusation of harming a child unnecessarily, is received with shame. Therefore the newspaper article made me understand that our slogan does its job. It makes defenders of circumcision feel shameful which they should.
But not only parents and circumcisers. Also countries that make circumcision of boys legal. Like for instance [[Denmark ]] and Germany and the rest of the world should feel shameful. Even the United Nations must be blamed. Although UN has a document, the Convention of the Rights of the Child, whose aim clearly is to protect children from unnecessary violence and harm, UN has not been willing to accept the logic of their own convention which is that this goes for all children, not only girls. Instead UN talks evasively and don't want to address the issue directly.
This is the greatest shame - that international human rights organizations do not draw the consequences of their own resolutions and that states, that have subscribed to the convention, don't follow up by action.
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* with [[Lena Nyhus]]: "Male Genital Mutilation: Bodily Integrity, Genital Autonomy and Religious Freedom." 2016. Farum: [[Intact Denmark]].* "Comments to the ‘Preliminary findings of Country Visit to Denmark’ of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief.“ 2016. Copenhagen: [[Intact Denmark]].
* "Whose Rights? The Danish Debate on Ritual Infant Male Circumcision as a Human Rights Issue." 2015. In Contemporary Views on Comparative Religion.