Tim Hammond

Tim Hammond is a self-described human rights activist who has been involved in social change movements, best known as an anti-circumcision advocate. He is the founder of the [http://www.noharmm.org National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM)] .

Activism

He opposed the Vietnam war, and was active in promoting women's rights and an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). In 1987, he was among hundreds of men and women arrested on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to protest its decision to uphold states' rights to legislate private sexual behavior among consenting adults in their own home (a decision the Court ultimately reversed in 2003). He is a member of the Children's Rights Network of Amnesty International/USA and a member of the National Organization on Male Sexual Victimization.

Publications

[http://www.noharmm.org/synopsis.htm Awakenings: A Preliminary Poll of Circumcised Men] (1993)

[http://www.noharmm.org/bju.htm A Preliminary Poll of Men Circumcised in Infancy or Childhood] (1999)

[http://www.cirp.org/pages/general/hammond1/ Long-Term Effects Reported at International Symposium on Circumcision]

External links

* [http://www.noharmm.org/HammondCV.htm Curriculum Vitae] Information about Tim Hammond
* [http://www.circumcisionvideos.com/wbwr.htm Whose Body, Whose Rights?] Executive producer of 1995 PBS documentary
* [http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/MaleGenitalMutilationInterviewByMaureenPrimerano.htm Male Genital Mutilation] 1997 interview with Tim Hammond