George C. Denniston · Frederick M. Hodges
Marilyn Fayre Milos
Editors

2013

Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights, 29–31 July 2010, University of California–Berkeley

Human rights are inalienable fundamental rights with which every human being is endowed. Moreover, human rights are universal, in that they are applicable everywhere, and egalitarian, in that they are the same for everyone without exception. These rights fundamentally exist as natural rights because they are not granted by law. The purpose of law is to guarantee and protect these pre-existing natural rights from any and all forces or agents that would accidentally or intentionally violate or encroach upon these rights to any degree.