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Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention against Torture [PDF]
, 2008 The intent of this article is to graphically describe female genital mutilation (FGM); discuss the background of FGM and its health, psychological, and social implications; propose some workable solutions to ending FGM; and raise the level of awareness ...
Broussard, Patricia A.
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BMC Women's Health, 2017 Background Male circumcision reduces the risk of female-to-male transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and is being explored for HIV prevention in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
Michelle Redman-MacLaren +5 more
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Circumcision: Perspective in a Nigerian teaching hospital
African Journal of Paediatric Surgery, 2013 Background: The practice and pattern of male infants circumcised is influenced by culture, religion and socio-economic classification. The debate about the benefits and risks of circumcision has made a hospital-based practice the most acceptable ...
L O Abdur-Rahman +2 more
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Male circumcision: a scientific perspective [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2004 The health benefits of male circumcision are wide ranging In this issue, John Hutson has reiterated the conventional Western medical view that “the surgical argument for circumcision of all neonatal males at present is very weak” and he criticises many of the circumcisions performed in later childhood, without anaesthesia, as “physically cruel and ...
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Using Rights to Counter “Gender-Specific” Wrongs [PDF]
, 2009 One popular strategy of opposition to practices of female genital cutting (FCG) is rooted in the global feminist movement. Arguing that women’s rights are human rights, global feminists contend that practices of FGC are a culturally specific ...
Tobin, Theresa
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Is traditional male circumcision effective as an HIV prevention strategy? Evidence from Lesotho.
PLoS ONE, 2017 In many developing countries, male circumcision has been promoted as an effective HIV prevention strategy, and medical randomized controlled trials have indeed shown a causal link.
Elisa M Maffioli
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African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine, 2019 Background: Medical male circumcision (MMC) and traditional male circumcision (TMC) are reportedly having negative and positive outcomes in the Eastern Cape province.
Sandile Prusente +2 more
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Islamic headscarves and female circumcision: Unveiling the threat posed by Islam to human rights [PDF]
, 2005 This paper is, in part, a response to the NZPGLeJ Editor-in-Chief Herman Salton’s article,“‘Veiled Threats?’ Islam, Headscarves and Freedom of Religion in France and the United States”, which was published in the first issue of this journal.
Williamson, Myra Elsie Jane Bell
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Naturalizing Moral Justification: Rethinking the Method of Moral Epistemology [PDF]
, 2013 The companion piece to this article, “Situating Moral Justification,” challenges the idea that moral epistemology\u27s mission is to establish a single, all‐purpose reasoning strategy for moral justification because no reasoning practice can be expected ...
Jaggar, Alison, Tobin, Theresa Weynand
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