March 20, 2018 Ágæta Alþingi / Dear Members of the Parliament: The Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP) is a dedicated not-for-profit partnership of Canadian medical, legal, and ethics professionals working collaboratively towards ending forced non-therapeutic genital cutting of…
For well over a decade, Professor Morris has been waging a quixotic campaign against the foreskin. Although he has “no involvement in clinical medicine” and “cannot claim any more expertise on the topic of male circumcision than any other…
VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Sept. 9, 2015) – A just released policy on infant male circumcision by the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) was judged today by the Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP) to be a step in the right direction,…
10 February 2015 Canadian Paediatric Society 2305 St. Laurent Blvd Ottawa, ON K1G 4J8 Attn: Fetus and Newborn Committee cc. Dr. Robert Moriartey, MD, Canadian Paediatric Society President Dear Colleagues, As we await the Canadian Paediatric Society’s expected policy…
The Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership is Canada’s premiere not-for-profit group of health care professionals and scholars devoted to protecting the genital health and human rights of Canada’s male, female, and intersex children. We realize that CDC recommendations can…
19 May 2014 To the members of the Canadian Paediatric Society Male Infant Circumcision Policy Committee cc. Dr. Andrew Lynk, MD, Canadian Paediatric Society President The Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP) is Canada’s first dedicated not-for-profit partnership of…
CHHRP Nursing Director Kira Antinuk, RN, BScN, MN discusses events that prompted her to research circumcision and pursue a nursing career. Antinuk’s article, “Forced genital cutting in North America: Feminist theory and nursing considerations” was published in the September issue…
CORRESPONDENCE TO THE CANADIAN AIDS SOCIETY: 30 September 2013 Dear Monique Doolittle-Romas, The Children’s Health & Human Rights Partnership (CHHRP) is Canada’s first dedicated not-for-profit partnership of medical, legal, and ethics professionals working alongside concerned citizens towards ending forced…
The Vancouver Public Library and the Vancouver Pride Society invited CHHRP to present an information booth onsite at the Vancouver Public Library. We enjoyed every minute! Vancouver, British Columbia, August 2013 Photo credit: James Loewen Kira Antinuk and Tim Hammond…
Nursing students Breanna de Groot, Emily Gage and Kira Antinuk bring the discussion of genital autonomy and human rights to visitors of the Victoria Pride Festival. Kira Antinuk is one of the founders of The Children’s Health & Human Rights…