Attorneys for the Rights of the Child - Safeguarding children's bodily integrity since 1997

Joined February 2012
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24 Jul 2019
New site launch imminent ... Stay tuned! #intactivism #circumcision #childrensright #foreskin arclaw.org/

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18 Jul 2019
ARC Law is launching the new site in the coming days and there will be a transition period because all the former links need to propagate across the internet as they are redirected to the new links. Or something very close to that. Thanks for your patience!
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Grassroots activists in Africa are also challenging the US-funded campaign to circumcise men and boys across the continent. The article below addresses the use of marketing, the quota system and money as an incentive home.crin.org/latest/the-afr…
US exporting its peculiar cultural practices - in the guise of medicine - to rural African populations via high pressure campaigns. The future of HIV prevention is not penile surgery. But it will already be a “norm” so may continue for generations ...
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13 Jul 2019
Thread by @briandavidearp: "Wow. @WHO claims 2 have 'voluntary' medical male circumcision (VMMC) program, based on data from studies of sexua* - but now pushes non-voluntary circ of infants, for which there is no controlled evidence of a protective e […]" threadreaderapp.com/thread/1…
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Encouraging “pressure” from female sexual partners ... when the only trial looking at male to female transmission of HIV (Wawer et al) had to be stopped early because female partners of circumcised men were getting infected at a *higher* rate.
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ARC Law retweeted
US exporting its peculiar cultural practices - in the guise of medicine - to rural African populations via high pressure campaigns. The future of HIV prevention is not penile surgery. But it will already be a “norm” so may continue for generations ...
CCP's work in Mozambique helped make circumcision in rural areas the norm, a practice that helps prevent #HIV. “Without the work we did to improve messaging, training, counseling and mobilization, we never would have seen ... change on this scale." ccp.jhu.edu/2019/05/13/makin…
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10 May 2019
ARC is weeks away from launching our new website. Meanwhile, browse the old site before it's too late! #i2 #circumcision #intactivism #HumanRights #ChildrensRights #FGM #intersex #parentalchoice #ReligiousFreedom
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9 May 2019
It’s hard to believe: First Conviction for FGM in United Kingdom tinyurl.com/y4caxhnv #i2 #circumcision #FGM

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The passage from the “Thin Line” intersex piece that jumped out at me was “As a society, we believe we are against the medically unnecessary modification of children’s genitalia.” Do we believe that, though? 1 million healthy newborn boys genitally cut per year says otherwise.
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1 May 2019
ARC is proud to have just published the Spring 2019 newsletter, available here: #i2 #circumcision #arclaw arclaw.org/newsletter/12-2.p…

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Now Steven Svoboda discussing his work developing the UN’s awareness of genital cutting #FutureChoices19
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28 Apr 2019
ARC's Steven Svoboda presenting at Future Choices 2019, University of Leeds, UK. Follow hashtag #futurechoices19 or @futurechoices for this conference and other related news
Now Steven Svoboda discussing his work developing the UN’s awareness of genital cutting #FutureChoices19
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26 Apr 2019
Groundbreaking Author and ARC collaborator Rob Darby Passes Away tinyurl.com/y52og4ka

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