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Religious and cultural genital cutting challenged at NSS event
Posted: Fri, 17 Jun 2022
Experts made the case for protecting all children from religious and cultural genital cutting at a recent NSS online event. Read More »
Protect all children from genital cutting, international NGO urges
Posted: Thu, 05 May 2022
An international council of experts has called on the United Nations to protect all children from religious and cultural genital cutting. Read More »
Religious privilege causing injustice, NSS tells Law Commission
Posted: Wed, 04 Aug 2021
The NSS has raised inconsistencies and unfairness in laws on education, charity, health and animal welfare in response to a consultation. Read More »
UK quizzed over collective worship law by UN
Posted: Thu, 18 Feb 2021
A United Nations committee has questioned laws which require collective worship in UK schools after the NSS raised the issue. Read More »
NSS urges rethink of laissez-faire approach to male genital cutting
Posted: Wed, 05 Aug 2020
The NSS has told the children's commissioner for England that all children should be protected from non-therapeutic genital cutting. Read More »
UK’s approach to male genital cutting is “indefensible”, says expert
Posted: Fri, 03 Jul 2020
The UK's legal approach to male genital cutting "must be changed" to protect children, a legal expert has argued in an acclaimed article. Read More »
Protect all children from ritual genital cutting, NSS tells UN
Posted: Tue, 17 Mar 2020
The NSS has called on the UN Human Rights Council to ensure protections from forced genital cutting encompass all children equally. Read More »
Ritual infant circumcision “morally impermissible”, say experts
Posted: Tue, 08 Oct 2019
The religious and cultural circumcision of non-consenting boys is "morally impermissible", according to a panel of experts. Read More »
NSS calls on NSPCC to reconsider its position on genital cutting
Posted: Thu, 07 Mar 2019
The NSS has called on the NSPCC to reconsider its position on non-therapeutic male circumcision after it defended the practice. Read More »
Doctors’ body: consider parents’ religion on infant genital cutting
Posted: Wed, 27 Feb 2019
The NSS has criticised the British Medical Association for giving "vague" advice to doctors on the ethics of infant circumcision. Read More »
NSS: doctors shouldn’t collude in unnecessary child genital cutting
Posted: Fri, 25 Jan 2019
The NSS has called on the body which registers doctors to "explicitly address" the harm caused by ritual infant genital cutting. Read More »
Medical ethicist Brian Earp to speak at Secularism 2019
Posted: Wed, 16 Jan 2019
The National Secular Society is pleased to announce that cross-disciplinary medical ethicist Dr Brian D. Earp will address its Secularism 2019 conference on 'reclaiming religious freedom'.
Dr Earp, a research fellow at the University of Oxford and Yale University,... Read More »
Ritual genital cutting kills boy in Italy
Posted: Thu, 03 Jan 2019
A two-year-old boy has died after his genitals were cut for religious reasons at a migrant centre in Italy. Read More »
Individual rights and autonomy key themes at NSS healthcare event
Posted: Thu, 01 Nov 2018
Speakers have told an NSS conference that individual rights and autonomy should take priority over religious concerns in healthcare. Read More »
NSS criticises EU leaders’ unqualified backing for religious rituals
Posted: Tue, 29 May 2018
Two senior EU politicians have said they would oppose restrictions on rituals such as genital cutting and religious animal slaughter. Read More »
Danish bid to create age of consent for genital cutting set to fail
Posted: Wed, 25 Apr 2018
An attempt to outlaw the cutting of healthy children's genitals in Denmark is set to fail, despite expert medical opinion. Read More »
Global rights group: forced genital cutting violates medical ethics
Posted: Tue, 17 Apr 2018
The NSS has reiterated its call for an end to forced genital cutting after a global children's rights group strongly criticised it. Read More »
Mother calls for boys to have legal protection from genital cutting
Posted: Sun, 08 Apr 2018
A woman is challenging a decision not to prosecute a doctor after her son was subjected to a harmful circumcision without her consent. Read More »
NSS says UK should follow Iceland’s lead to end genital cutting
Posted: Mon, 19 Feb 2018
The NSS has said the UK should "follow the lead" of Iceland, which is expected to ban cutting boys' genitals for non-medical reasons. Read More »
Success! Amazon withdraws infant circumcision training kits following NSS campaign
Posted: Wed, 20 Dec 2017
Amazon UK has withdrawn infant circumcision training kits from sale over child safety concerns after an NSS request to do so. Read More »
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