Rights of Parent and Child Infant circumcision violates the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It says nothing about circumcision of infants nor when it is chosen by adolescents and adults. This Article is aimed fairly and squarely at the treatment of prisoners and suspects by law enforcement and military authorities. Its only possible relevance to circumcision would be if prisoners somewhere were forcibly circumcised - a practice that has not been reported from anywhere for well over a century, and even then not applied to babies. Circumcision, with its proven prophylactic benefits cannot ever be officially regarded as contravening the UN Declaration when performed by suitably qualified persons at the request of the patient or his legal guardians.
Parents have no right to inflict circumcision on their sons.
Furthermore, in a number of cultures the religious or social norm is for boys to be circumcised. If a boy is not circumcised as an infant then these benefits are denied to him. Parents have a right and a duty to make, on behalf of a child, those decisions which he cannot make for himself. It is thus up to the parents to make the decision based on what they see as the benefits and risks. Infant circumcision is highly traumatic for the boy.