Articles tagged with: Convention on the Rights of the Child
Your Body Your Choice: The Silent Scalpel of Intersex Surgeries
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For over 20 years activists within the intersex community have been calling for changes to how operations are performed on those born with the condition and last year a United Nations convention condemned the practice that it describes as “Intersex Genital Mutilation” within 15 countries including the UK.