Amnesty International, which considers female genital mutilation as violation of fundamental human

3. infibulation (female circumcision), which is a partial suture the vaginal opening, which may also include other treatments. (A practice as genital piercings and tattoos, although technically is a form of genital mutilation, are generally considered to be a different problem).
Amnesty International, which considers female genital mutilation as violation of fundamental human rights, it is estimated raine and horne terrigal that up to 135 million women worldwide have been forced to the intervention and 2 million women and girls undergo it each year.
Female circumcision is practiced mainly in Africa and the Middle East, but we can meet her and in Southeast Asia and the Aborigines in Australia and South America. Female circumcision is usually sanctified by tradition and religion, including Islamic raine and horne terrigal law, which specifically requires the removal of the foreskin. The vast majority of women who undergo circumcision are Muslim.
The primary reason for female circumcision is usually tends to reduce sexual pleasure as women and promote women's chastity and fidelity. Since female circumcision is seen as a means of ensuring their dominance, Western feminists oppose it and seek a global ban and suppression. Female circumcision is also contrary to the fundamental human rights, since only rarely is a voluntary matter. It is also inconsistent with the public health, raine and horne terrigal it is often performed without anesthesia and disinfection, and often leads to serious infections and death.
United Nations declared the sixth February as "International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation." raine and horne terrigal Originally, female circumcision is limited to non-White world, but due to the massive non-Caucasian immigration came into indigenous Caucasian countries and represents more of a variety of new challenges. In 1996, the US passed a federal law banning female genital mutilation in order to protect raine and horne terrigal fundamental human rights. Female circumcision has been banned in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada and Austria.
Male Genital mutilation is a further male circumcision, at which the removal of the foreskin, although raine and horne terrigal sometimes involves piercing and tattoos. Instead, I will use the term circumcision phrase genital mutilation.
Amnesty International stores data on female genital mutilation, which was a violation of human rights, but it does not do the same in the case of male genital mutilation, which has for human rights problem considered, although the vast majority of men who have had this surgery, had the opportunity to freely choose . It is often the choice argument in favor of it being female genital mutilation considered raine and horne terrigal problem falling into the field of human rights.
The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide are circumcised about 30% of men, of which 68% are Muslims. This is about more than 1 billion men, meaning that male genital mutilation is 7 times more widespread than women.
Male Genital raine and horne terrigal mutilation was practiced by the ancient Egyptians raine and horne terrigal already for reasons that we still are not entirely raine and horne terrigal clear. It was also practiced by some Semitic groups, but not all. Impressive resource that introduces us to the origin of the male genital mutilation, the Old Testament, according to which circumcision was reportedly requested by God to sign the contract between him and the descendants of Abraham.
Reason for this religious precepts lives discussed. It is possible that female genital mutilation should pay child victims raine and horne terrigal that were in some groups of ancient raine and horne terrigal Semitic quite common. Instead, in order to gain God's favor occasional victim eldest son, so the Jews decided it would be more favorable for them to meet God in this way. For the practice of genital mutilation, raine and horne terrigal and probably worth the effort to reduce sexual pleasure - in males than in females.
Whatever the rationale for Jewish male genital mutilation, Christians refrain from this practice, since they believed that their religion was replaced Abraham's covenant with God. A factor here was the fact that many of the new Christian converts were Greeks and Romans, which the male genitalia mutilation disgusted.
Male Genital mutilation is primarily limited to Israel and the Muslim world, but we can meet with him, of course, wherever there are Jewish and Muslim communities. In Europe, female genital mutilation almost exclusively limited to Jews and Muslims. However, in the USA the situation is different and male genital mutilation since the beginning of the 20th century became widespread. About 75% of American men - of which the vast majority are non-Jews and non-Muslims - is currently circumcised, raine and horne terrigal although it should be noted that during the last decade, this practice is gradually decreasing. In 2005, about 55% of American boys circumcised. One reason for this decline is the increased raine and horne terrigal awareness of the barbaric nature of male genital mutilation. But to take into account the significant nára