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Several parliamentary parties are considering creating legislation that would spare all children from circumcision - not just girls

A proposal to ban circumcision for boys may be on its way to parliament after intense discussions by MPs over the past week, reports Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper.
Although circumcision of girls was outlawed in response to the practice being [...]

A moderate Muslim group in Canada is calling on the government to strip the owner of a Toronto mosque of its charitable status.The Muslim Canadian Congress says the Khalid Bin Al-Walid mosque has posted statements on its Web site that are “in contravention of what a moderate Muslim should stand for,” the Toronto Star reported [...]

In a clinic in the hills of Swaziland’s capital, Israeli doctors have been training their counterparts in male circumcision, hoping expertise in the ancient technique will help in the battle against the modern scourge of AIDS.

The United Nations announced last year that the procedure could reduce the rate of HIV transmission by up to 60 [...]

Two teenage boys have been arrested for running an illegal initiation school in the Eastern Cape, health officials said on Sunday.
Spokesperson for the department of health Sizwe Kupelo said the two boys aged 17 and 18 were arrested on Saturday for allegedly running an illegal initiation school in Libode.
They had already circumcised four boys when [...]

Swaziland is leading African countries in promoting male circumcision to curb the spread of HIV with the help of Israeli surgeons, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports. The country began to promote male circumcision in response to studies showing that the procedure could reduce a man’s risk of contracting HIV by up to 60%, according [...]

The Children’s Council and the Chair of the Ethical Council say it is objectionable and ethically indefensible that while there is a law preventing female genital mutilation, no such law exists for males.
Both the Jewish, Muslim and other traditions call for the circumcision of males. In Denmark, the Chief Rabbi Bent Lexner carries out the [...]

Unless you have young sons, you might not be aware that circumcision is on a downward trend, and that the anti-circumcision lobby is gaining ground. Not your problem? Well, it turns out that this issue is suddenly of relevance to everyone: Foreskins are the latest tool in the fight against aging, and we’re going to [...]

I’m an avid follower of Andile Mngxitama’s articles, particularly on the plight of farmworkers and black landlessness.
However his piece last week will go down as the lowest attempt in an otherwise illustrious writing career. His piece is riddled with a senseless diatribe against initiation. For him to call iniation a “backward traditional practice”, when nations [...]

The Bakgatla tribe of Botswana is to resume its age-long but abandoned tradition of male circumcision, after scientific studies revealed that circumcised males are less likely to be infected with HIV than their uncircumcised counterparts.
PANA learnt that negotiations between the tribe and the Harvard Institute in Botswana are on in an effort to resume the [...]

CLINICAL officers in Kitgum district will soon be trained in circumcision of males, an official has said.
Thomas Ojok, the district HIV/AIDS focal point person, said they plan to encourage males to get circumcised, which he said was one of the means to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS.
He was speaking during an HIV/AIDS team meeting for [...]