Clearly this is an issue which needs to be globally addressed and enforced in order to protect our children. With the facts stated here, it is my belief that genital mutilation, both male and female, is very much and issue which again needs to be addressed on a global scale, as it was in 1989 with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Every day this issue goes unaddressed more children are violated and scarred for the rest of their lives, and their rights, as set out in the United Nation Declaration of Human Rights and Convention on the Rights of the Children are violated. It is also my belief that circumcision should be a procedure performed for medical reasons only, unless the person undergoing the operation is legally old enough to decide for himself. It then releases doctors from performing a procedure that goes against their ethics, thus freeing them from the stigma of being labelled hypocrites.
Genital mutilation is a matter for global consideration as it is a global problem.
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