Please find below details of a conference that may be of interest. > Begin forwarded message: > > > > Future Choices: Keeping Europe Intact > A Children’s Rights Conference > 26th-27th April 2019, School of Law, University of Leeds > > There is an emerging consensus in Northern European nations regarding a > child’s right to bodily integrity. Approaches to the cutting of male, female > and intersex children are provoking debate. A strengthening commitment to > children’s rights and a greater understanding of the harms occasioned by some > traditional practices, parental choices, and medical interventions is > increasingly reflected in law and policy. This has contributed to a > developing sense of American exceptionalism in this regard. As the UK leaves > the European Union, this conference explores shared European values that > respect all children’s rights to bodily integrity and self-determination. > This conference will see speakers from law, philosophy, health, psychology, > and other disciplines explore European developments, what we might learn from > neighbouring jurisdictions, and the different directions the future might > hold. > > Provisional Programme > Friday 26th April > 9.30 Registration & refreshments > 9.50 Welcome > 10.00 – 12.00 Male genital cutting & understanding rights > > ‘Embodied Integrity: Reconsidering the Legal Regulation of the Genital > Cutting of Children’ > Marie Fox, School of Law & Social Justice, University of Liverpool > > ‘Male Genital Cutting & the Question of Harm’ > Michael Thomson & Joshua Warburton, School of Law, University of Leeds > > ‘Two approaches to male and female genital cutting’ > Kai Moller, London School of Economics > > 12.00 – 1.00 Lunch > 1.00 – 3.00 Intersex citizenship & rights > > ‘Intersex Citizenship: Mapping the territory’ > Surya Monro, Daniela Crocetti, and Tray Yeadon-Lee > University of Huddersfield > > ‘Protecting the rights of children with intersex conditions from > non-consensual gender-conforming medical interventions: from theory to > practice’ > Jameson Garland, Uppsala University > > ‘Making the State Responsible: Intersex Embodiment, Medical Jurisdiction and > State Responsibility’ > Fae Garland, School of Law, University of Manchester and Mitchell Travis, > School of Law, University of Leeds > > 3.00 – 3.30 Refreshments > > 3.30 – 5.00 Female Genital Cutting > > 'Gender and honour-based violence: The case of female genital mutilation' > Hibo Wardere, Campaigner and activist > > ‘Why a U.S. law banning 'FGM' was ruled unconstitutional and what can be done > to protect children’ > Brian Earp, Philosophy, Yale & Oxford > > Saturday 27th April > 9.30 – 11.00 Bringing Law & Medicine Together > > ‘A binding covenant’ > Antony Lempert, Secular Medical Forum > > ‘Supporting the United Nations in developing awareness of all forms of > genital cutting’ > J.Steven Svoboda, Attorneys for the Rights of the Child and Antony Lempert, > Secular Medical Forum > > 11.00 - 11.30 Refreshments > 11.30 - 1.00 Exploring Common Ground > > Campaigning for (circumcision) change: some ideas for the UK > Rebecca Steinfeld, Independent Researcher and Campaigner > > ‘The Anomaly of Male Genital Cutting’ > Saxon Norgard, Rightsinfo > > 1.00 – 2.00 Lunch > 2.00 – 3.30 The Place of Human Rights > > ‘Perspectives on framing childhood Intersex medical treatment as Human Rights > abuses’ > Daniela Crocetti, University of Huddersfield > > ‘Joined up thinking? Genital cutting and coherent legal frameworks in Europe’ > James Chegwidden, Old Square Chambers > > 3.30 – 4.00 Refreshments > 4.00 – 5.00 Roundtable > > You can register for the event here: > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-choices-keeping-europe-intact-tickets-52261055223 > > <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/future-choices-keeping-europe-intact-tickets-52261055223> > > > > Michael Thomson > > Professor of Law | Director: Centre for Law & Social Justice > School of Law, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK > > Centre for Law & Social Justice > <http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/research/law-social-justice> > law.leeds.ac.uk/ <http://law.leeds.ac.uk/> > > Professor of Law | University of Technology Sydney > Faculty of Laws, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia > > uts.edu.au <http://uts.edu.au/> > > >
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