Tags: Genital cutting
NSS address urges UN to call for government action on human rights
Religious privilege is undermining rights of UK citizens, NSS tells UN committee. Read More »
Protect human rights from religious imposition, NSS urges UN
NSS tells UN Human Rights Committee religious privilege is undermining rights in education, healthcare and around free speech. Read More »
NSS defend mayor ousted for questioning religious circumcision
The National Secular Society has teamed up with a men's health charity to raise concerns after a mayor was ousted... Read More »
NSS speaks out at pro-genital autonomy event
The National Secular Society has called for an end to all forms of non-consensual religious genital cutting at the... Read More »
Boys face serious complications from circumcision, complaints show
Dozens of children are suffering life-threatening, painful and permanent complications from religious circumcisions... Read More »
Experts: “Serious weaknesses” in medical guidance on circumcision
Experts have criticised "serious weaknesses" in medical guidance which permits religious and cultural circumcision... Read More »
Religious and cultural genital cutting challenged at NSS event
Experts made the case for protecting all children from religious and cultural genital cutting at a recent National... Read More »
Arrests made at unregistered school over FGM concerns
The National Secular Society has expressed shock that female genital mutilation has been suspected at an unregistered... Read More »
Protect all children from genital cutting, international NGO urges
An international council of experts has called on the United Nations to protect all children from religious and cultural... Read More »
NSS raises “serious” free speech concerns in press regulator code
A press regulator's standards code may restrict free speech and distort reporting through pro-religion bias, the National... Read More »
Religious privilege causing injustice, NSS tells Law Commission
The National Secular Society has argued that religious privilege creates inconsistencies and unfairness in laws on... Read More »
UK quizzed over collective worship law by UN
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has questioned laws which require collective worship in UK schools after... Read More »
NSS urges rethink of laissez-faire approach to male genital cutting
The National Secular Society has urged the children's commissioner for England to encourage child protection agencies... Read More »
UK’s approach to male genital cutting is “indefensible”, says expert
The UK's legal approach to male genital cutting is "indefensible" and "must be changed" to protect children, a legal... Read More »
Protect all children from ritual genital cutting, NSS tells UN
The National Secular Society has formally called on the UN Human Rights Council to ensure that protections from forced... Read More »
Ritual infant circumcision “morally impermissible”, say experts
The religious and cultural circumcision of non-consenting boys is "morally impermissible" and should be considered... Read More »
NSS calls on NSPCC to reconsider its position on genital cutting
The National Secular Society has called on the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children to reconsider... Read More »
Doctors’ body: consider parents’ religion on infant genital cutting
The National Secular Society has criticised the professional body which represents doctors after it said "health interests"... Read More »
NSS: doctors shouldn’t collude in unnecessary child genital cutting
The National Secular Society has called on the body which registers doctors to "explicitly address" the harm caused... Read More »
Medical ethicist Brian Earp to speak at Secularism 2019
The National Secular Society is pleased to announce that cross-disciplinary medical ethicist Dr Brian D. Earp will... Read More »
Ritual genital cutting kills boy in Italy
A two-year-old boy has died and his twin brother has been hospitalised after their genitals were cut for religious... Read More »
Individual rights and autonomy key themes at NSS healthcare event
Speakers have called for individual rights and bodily autonomy to take priority over religious concerns in healthcare... Read More »
Man arrested over alleged circumcision assaults
Police in Oxfordshire are appealing for information regarding a man arrested on suspicion of physically assaulting... Read More »
NSS criticises EU leaders’ unqualified backing for religious rituals
The National Secular Society has criticised two senior EU politicians after they said they would oppose restrictions... Read More »
Danish bid to create age of consent for genital cutting set to fail
An attempt to outlaw the cutting of healthy children's genitals in Denmark is set to fail, despite the opinions of... Read More »
