Heartbreaking: up to 40% of Filipino boys experience infection (drdf.org.ph/sites/default/…), and up to 70%, PTSD (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…), from their public circumcision rites each year. I wonder why @WHO doesn't view this as a human rights violation? One possibility is that ... 
routine & religious male circumcision—common in U.S. & Jewish/Muslim families, respectively—is a tradition among many of the most influential “gatekeepers” of the global human rights agenda: “the practice is prevalent in their own social networks”(amazon.com/Lost-Causes-Ve…) ...
Per Carpenter: “Unlike other practices human rights professionals condemn but don't participate in, circ was widespread” among them. "Confronting it evoked defensiveness from those who had circumcised their own boys, loath to think of themselves as human rights abusers” ...
Of course, it is much easier for these Western, male-circumcision-practicing human rights gatekeepers to think of proverbial "Others" -- e.g., African or Muslim groups that practice female AND male genital cutting as human rights abusers, even though some groups ...
that practice female & male 'circ' perform less severe cutting on girls, as in e.g. Malaysia, where ritual nicking by a clinician is most common form of female genital cutting. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/4/e0…. Shameful cultural bias & double standards from 'human rights experts'
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