Council of Europe, Resolution und Empfehlung zu "Children’s right to physical integrity"

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    • R2D2 schrieb:

      American Jews received an odd Christmas message from one of the country’s most prestigious newspapers yesterday. The Washington Post published an article by Swiss parliamentarian Liliane Maury Pasquier titled “Is circumcision a right?” The piece was a disingenuous defense of the resolution passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, which she chairs, to endorse children’s right to physical integrity. The purpose of the vote was to give a crucial boost to efforts to ban circumcision throughout Europe, a heretofore-marginal cause that has recently gained ground in Germany and Scandinavia.


      commentarymagazine.com/2013/12…nners-dishonest-argument/



      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_S._Tobin
      "Man muss diese versteinerten Verhältnisse dadurch zum Tanzen zwingen, dass man ihnen ihre eigne Melodie vorsingt!" K.M.

    • Guy schrieb:

      washingtonpost.com/opinions/ci…7-006c776266ed_story.html


      There is not, and cannot be, a “right” to circumcise young boys. Children are not mini-beings with mini-human rights. By contrast, in an accompanying recommendation, our assembly invited European governments to consider making “children’s right to physical integrity” a continent-wide standard.The assembly’s resolution cannot be rescinded or altered. However, as we hoped, debate is underway — though not always in the most focused or productive manner. (What does it say about the quality of opponents’ arguments if calling for a public debate is seen as a precursor to oppression and pogroms?)

      Bisher 1695 Kommentare.
      "Man muss diese versteinerten Verhältnisse dadurch zum Tanzen zwingen, dass man ihnen ihre eigne Melodie vorsingt!" K.M.

    • R2D2 schrieb:

      Sie bewegt sich, aber bewegt doch nichts.
      Eine Frage der Zeit. Aber das heliozentrische Weltbild hatte sich am Ende doch durchgesetzt. Und auch die Evolutionstheorie. Auch wenn heute noch einige verbohrte Kreationisten herumlaufen. Oder Menschen an ihr Horoskop glauben, oder an Schamanen. Auch der Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie war ein langer Kampf. Die Bretter, die wir bohren müssen, sind halt sehr dick. In wenigen Jahrzehnten wird vermutlich die Mehrheit der Menschen in den zivilisierten Staaten nicht mehr verstehen, wieso es einmal eine rituelle Beschneidung bei beiderlei Geschlechtern gab. Genauso wie sie es nicht mehr verstehen, warum Menschen als Hexen verbrannt, andere zu Tode gesteinigt wurden. Zuerst kommt die Änderung in den Köpfen, dann die der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse.
      Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen, unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht. (JWvG)
      Auch für die Religionsfreiheit gilt: "Freiheit ist immer nur die Freiheit des anders Denkenden." (R.Luxemburg)

    • Mixed Reactions

      Israel’s circumcision interventions draw mixed reception from European Jews:

      jta.org/2013/12/31/news-opinio…eption-from-european-jews

      Da gab es wohl auch schon in der Vergangenheit Probleme:

      The activist recalled a vocal disagreement that leaders of Germany’s Jewish community had last year with Eli Yishai, who at the time was Israel’s minister of internal affairs, and Yona Metzger, who was then Israel’s chief Ashkenazi rabbi. (Metzger has since been arrested in Israel on fraud and bribery charges.) Germany’s Central Council of Jews said that the Israelis had done more harm than good in their response to a German court ruling in Cologne that said circumcision amounted to a criminal offense.

      “Metzger said there was no reason why we shouldn’t have a doctor present at every milah. That’s not a message we want to spread,” the activist said. “He said unhelpful things and put us in a difficult position.”



      Ein Arzt bei einer Operation? Ja, wo kommen wir denn da hin?

      “One of the major advantages to this Israeli involvement is that, no matter what the size of the local Jewish community, there’s likely to be an Israeli embassy present with politically intelligent insight and open channels of communication with senior government officials,” Cohen said.


      Wide open.

      Ja ist schon klar, wie das läuft. Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten nennt man das.
      Vorhaut hat Vorteile. Sonst gäbe es sie nicht.

    • Selbstbestimmung schrieb:

      Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten nennt man das.
      Dieses Argument geht letztlich in's Leere, weil es beliebig gedreht und gewendet werden kann. Was für den einen Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten ist, ist für den anderen die Wahrung berechtigter Interessen. Die Botschaften aller Länder nutzen ihre örtlichen Kanäle, um ihre Interessen zu artikulieren. So what?
      "Man muss diese versteinerten Verhältnisse dadurch zum Tanzen zwingen, dass man ihnen ihre eigne Melodie vorsingt!" K.M.

    • circumcision.org/1714NewsRelease.htm

      European Circumcision Debate Will Include Jewish American
      Psychologist and Author Ronald Goldman Criticizes the Practice</big>



      BOSTON – January 7, 2014 – Ronald Goldman, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Circumcision Resource Center,
      a nonprofit educational organization in Boston, has been invited by the
      Council of Europe to participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue about
      circumcision at a meeting in France on January 28.

      There
      is a growing European debate about circumcision. In October the Council
      of Europe, an organization of 47 member States, overwhelmingly passed a
      non-binding resolution
      that called circumcision, among other procedures, a violation of the
      physical integrity of children according to established human rights
      standards. Circumcision is uncommon in Europe except among Jews and
      Muslims.

      As the only non-European invited to this meeting, Dr.
      Goldman said, “I look forward to contributing to the effort to raise
      awareness about circumcision in Europe in light of its physical,
      sexual, and psychological harm.” He is the author of Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma and Questioning Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective.

      Information from the Circumcision Resource Center and the Jewish Circumcision Resource Center
      (a section of the CRC) was used to support the Council’s report on the
      resolution. The resolution, which received international media
      attention, urges member States to raise awareness, provide training,
      initiate public debate, and promote an interdisciplinary dialogue about
      the procedures.

      Other invited guests to the meeting include an
      official representative of the French Jewish community, a
      representative of the Muslim community from Turkey, and a medical
      professional from Germany.
      About CRC
      The
      Circumcision Resource Center has the purpose of informing the public
      and professionals about the practice of male circumcision. Its mission
      is to raise awareness and facilitate healing. Since 1991, the Center
      has been a valuable source of male circumcision information for parents
      and children's advocates; childbirth educators and allied
      professionals; medical, mental health, and academic people; Jews; and
      others. Dr. Goldman
      has participated in over 200 media interviews with local and national
      radio and television programs, newspapers, and periodicals. He also
      gives lectures and seminars on circumcision and counsels parents and
      circumcised men.