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41 South African Men Dead In 2 Months From Circumcision Procedures
At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday.
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"Children Who Are Circumcised Early Have Double Rate Of Autism": Team Trump
The claim was swiftly derided by experts who said the main study cited by proponents of this theory was strewn with errors and it was yet another example of Kennedy's penchant for "pseudoscience."
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Maharashtra Boy Goes In For Leg Surgery, Comes Out Circumcised, Probe On
The parents of a nine-year-old boy from Shahapur in Maharashtra's Thane district have complained to the police that doctors at a government-run hospital wrongly performed a surgery on his genitals instead of an injured leg.
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UP Man Claims Forced Circumcision, Accuses Girlfriend's Parents: Cops
A 20-year-old man has accused his 17-year-old girlfriend's parents of forced circumcision and attempting to convert his religion in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Thursday.
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Doctors Perform Circumcision Instead Of Tongue Surgery On 2-Year-Old In UP
The Uttar Pradesh government has sent a health department team to M Khan Hospital here which has been alleged to have circumcised a two-and-half-year-old child instead of a tongue surgery for which he was taken there.
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Mother Stopped From Taking Baby Girl To India For Female Genital Mutilation
A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India because she is at risk of being subjected to an "utterly unacceptable" genital mutilation procedure.
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South Africa Circumcision Ritual, A Dangerous Route To Manhood
Naked, covered in white clay mud, and with his penis wrapped in leaves, Abongile Maqegu, 20, sits in a hut in South Africa recovering from his circumcision -- a traditional ritual that can prove fatal.
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Indian-Origin Doctor Arrested Over Circumcision Of Baby Without Mother's Consent
An Indian-origin General Practitioner (GP) from the East Midlands region of England has been arrested for allegedly circumcising a baby boy without his mother's consent.
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2 Girls Die After Circumcisions In South Leone, Guinea
A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said Thursday, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Guinea.
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Battle Within Tiny Indian Muslim Sect On Circumcising Girls
When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels - sometimes within the same sentence.
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Dear UN, What About Female Circumcision Among My Bohra Community?
Why is India still not on the UN radar, even though the 1.5 million-strong Bohra community practices FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) here?
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I Was Circumcised When I Was a Girl of 7
For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.
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Motion Filed to Dismiss US Penis Amputation Suit
An attorney for two US doctors accused in a lawsuit of amputating a man's penis in what was supposed to have been a routine circumcision filed a motion on Tuesday seeking to dismiss the claims.
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Male Circumcision Lowers HIV Risk for Women: Study
A campaign to promote male circumcision to prevent AIDS infection also indirectly benefits women by reducing their risk of contracting the HIV virus, according to a study presented at the world AIDS forum on Friday.
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German Jews, Muslims unite to protest against circumcision ban
Hundreds of German Jews and Muslims held a joint rally in Berlin on Sunday demanding that their "freedom of religion" be respected, in a rare show of unity to protest against a court order that banned ritual circumcisions. The June ruling by a court in Cologne has sparked an emotive debate about religious freedom in a country which is sensitive to...
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41 South African Men Dead In 2 Months From Circumcision Procedures
At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday.
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"Children Who Are Circumcised Early Have Double Rate Of Autism": Team Trump
The claim was swiftly derided by experts who said the main study cited by proponents of this theory was strewn with errors and it was yet another example of Kennedy's penchant for "pseudoscience."
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Maharashtra Boy Goes In For Leg Surgery, Comes Out Circumcised, Probe On
The parents of a nine-year-old boy from Shahapur in Maharashtra's Thane district have complained to the police that doctors at a government-run hospital wrongly performed a surgery on his genitals instead of an injured leg.
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UP Man Claims Forced Circumcision, Accuses Girlfriend's Parents: Cops
A 20-year-old man has accused his 17-year-old girlfriend's parents of forced circumcision and attempting to convert his religion in Uttar Pradesh's Greater Noida, police said on Thursday.
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Doctors Perform Circumcision Instead Of Tongue Surgery On 2-Year-Old In UP
The Uttar Pradesh government has sent a health department team to M Khan Hospital here which has been alleged to have circumcised a two-and-half-year-old child instead of a tongue surgery for which he was taken there.
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Mother Stopped From Taking Baby Girl To India For Female Genital Mutilation
A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India because she is at risk of being subjected to an "utterly unacceptable" genital mutilation procedure.
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South Africa Circumcision Ritual, A Dangerous Route To Manhood
Naked, covered in white clay mud, and with his penis wrapped in leaves, Abongile Maqegu, 20, sits in a hut in South Africa recovering from his circumcision -- a traditional ritual that can prove fatal.
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Indian-Origin Doctor Arrested Over Circumcision Of Baby Without Mother's Consent
An Indian-origin General Practitioner (GP) from the East Midlands region of England has been arrested for allegedly circumcising a baby boy without his mother's consent.
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2 Girls Die After Circumcisions In South Leone, Guinea
A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said Thursday, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Guinea.
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Battle Within Tiny Indian Muslim Sect On Circumcising Girls
When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels - sometimes within the same sentence.
-
Dear UN, What About Female Circumcision Among My Bohra Community?
Why is India still not on the UN radar, even though the 1.5 million-strong Bohra community practices FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) here?
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I Was Circumcised When I Was a Girl of 7
For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.
-
Motion Filed to Dismiss US Penis Amputation Suit
An attorney for two US doctors accused in a lawsuit of amputating a man's penis in what was supposed to have been a routine circumcision filed a motion on Tuesday seeking to dismiss the claims.
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Male Circumcision Lowers HIV Risk for Women: Study
A campaign to promote male circumcision to prevent AIDS infection also indirectly benefits women by reducing their risk of contracting the HIV virus, according to a study presented at the world AIDS forum on Friday.
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German Jews, Muslims unite to protest against circumcision ban
Hundreds of German Jews and Muslims held a joint rally in Berlin on Sunday demanding that their "freedom of religion" be respected, in a rare show of unity to protest against a court order that banned ritual circumcisions. The June ruling by a court in Cologne has sparked an emotive debate about religious freedom in a country which is sensitive to...
