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→Application of the ICCPR to non-therapeutic circumcision of children: Add Article 2.
Self-determination is the right to decide for one's self. This provides for [[genital autonomy]], which is the right to decide for one's self if one's genitals are to be surgically altered. [[Genital autonomy]] is provided by delaying a non-therapeutic surgical operation on a child until the child is of age at which he or she can decide for one's self.
====Article two====
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.
2. Where not already provided for by existing legislative or other measures, each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to take the necessary steps, in accordance with its constitutional processes and with the provisions of the present Covenant, to adopt such laws or other measures as may be necessary to give effect to the rights recognized in the present Covenant.
3. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes:<br>
a. To ensure that any person whose rights or freedoms as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been committed by persons acting in an official capacity;<br>
b. To ensure that any person claiming such a remedy shall have his right thereto determined by competent judicial, administrative or legislative authorities, or by any other competent authority provided for by the legal system of the State, and to develop the possibilities of judicial remedy;<br>
c. To ensure that the competent authorities shall enforce such remedies when granted.
====Article seven====