Legal Status of Circumcision in Europe

The Circumcision Information Resource Pages possess only limited information on the legal status of circumcision in Europe. Such information as is available is presented here. 

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The following file reports the conviction of an Algerian circumciser in France.


[TXT] conviction1            03-Mar-96 11:10     2K


The following letter reports that malpractice insurance providers in the United Kingdom
may not defend doctors who perform non-clinical, non-therapeutic circumcisions.

  
[DIR]Green JSA, Hunter-Campbell P. Circumcision (letter). BJU Int. 1999; Jul;84(1):187.
[TXT] Sami Aldeeb. Circoncision masculine et féminine entre la religion et le droit chez les juifs, les chrétiens et les musulmans. Conférence donnée à la Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, dipartimento di storia e teoria del diritto, Università di Roma Tor Vergata le 8 mars 2001, et à l'Università degli studi di Bologna le 9 mars 2001 (En français) (Link to http://allserv.rug.ac.be/)

(Revised 5 May 2001)

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