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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10934

3 October 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 37 / 38
COUNCIL OF EUROPE / (ae) jha
PACE concerned over violations of children's physical integrity

Strasbourg, 02/10/2013 (Agence Europe) - Female genital mutilation, circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, early childhood operations on intersexual children and coercion of children into piercings - even simple earrings - tattoos and plastic surgery: the list of violations of the physical integrity of children as a result of adults' wishes is much longer than one might at first imagine. They are abuses of power, if one might use a “sound bite” to summarise the report debated...

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