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Photo: Daniela Truffer (StopIGM.org) speaking in Geneva at the Rainbow Cities Network NGO meeting, 20.11.2015
• INFO NIGHT Fri 09.09. 19h @ Confédération Nationale du Planning Familial, 75011 Paris
• 5 NONVIOLENT PROTESTS Sat 10. – Mon 12.09. (Details below)
In 2016, France has been reprimanded 3 times by the UN for allowing Intersex Genital Mutilations to continue with impunity, with UN bodies each time condemning IGM as a “harmful practice” like FGM, or as “inhuman treatment” punishable as torture.
To this day, in the “developed world” intersex children are systematically submitted to non-consensual, unnecessary, irreversible, cosmetic genital surgery, sterilising procedures, imposition of hormones, and other harmful treatment.
To this day, in France IGM practices continue to be advocated by public medical bodies, perpetrated in public university and regional children’s clinics, and paid for by the public health insurance.
To this day, for example the French High Authority of Health (HAS) prescribes partial clitoris amputation and other unnecessary surgery on intersex children “during the first months of life”.
And over the next weekend IGM perpetrators from allover will flock to Paris for the ’55th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE)’.
Next Friday evening the international intersex human rights NGO StopIGM.org will inform about these ongoing violations at the Confédération Nationale du Planning Familial in Paris.
And Saturday till Monday we will hold non-violent protests in front of the Palais des Congrès, the IGM university clinic Hôpital Robert-Debré and the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS).
Please share widely to help reminding the perpetrators and their accessories that it is NOT OK to mutilate defenceless children!
INFO NIGHT: Fri 09.09.2016 19h @ Confédération Nationale du Planning Familial • 4, Square St. Irénée • 75011 Paris
“Intersex Genital Mutilations & Resistance – Past and Present”
5 PEACEFUL VIGILS + OPEN LETTERS: Sat 10th – Mon 12th
“STOP Intersex Genital Mutilations!”
Saturday 10.09.2016
#1: 07:30-11:30 ‘ESPE 2016’ (main entrance)
Le Palais des Congrès, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris
#2: 13:00-17:00 ‘Hôpital Robert Debré’ (main entrance)
48 Boulevard Sérurier, 75019 Paris
Sunday 11.09.2016
#3: 07:30-17:00 ‘ESPE 2016’ (main entrance)
Le Palais des Congrès, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris
Monday 12.09.2016
#4: 09:00-12:30 ‘Haute Autorité de Santé HAS’ (main entrance)
5 avenue du Stade de France, 93218 Saint-Denis la Plaine Cedex
#5: 14:00-18:30 ‘ESPE 2016’ (main entrance)
Le Palais des Congrès, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris
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See also:
• Open Letter of Concern to ”6th ISHID Hypospadias Workshop’, Seligenstadt 2015
• Open Letter of Concern to ’53rd ESPE’ Dublin 2014
• Open Letter of Concern to ‘4th WOFAPS’ Berlin 2013
• Open Letter of Concern to ‘9th Joint Meeting’ (ESPE/LWPES) Milano 2013
• Open Letter of Concern to ‘4th I-DSD Symposium’ Glasgow 2013
• Open Letter of Concern to ’51st Annual Meeting of ESPE’ Leipzig 2012
• Open Letter of Concern to ’23rd ESPU’ Zurich 2012
• Open Letter of Concern to ‘ISHID’ Live Genital Mutilators London 2011
• Open Letter of Concern to ‘3rd EuroDSD Symposium’ Lübeck 2011
• Open Letter of Concern to ’11th EMBL/EMBO Conference’ Heidelberg 2010