{"id":14,"date":"2012-07-04T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T06:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2025-12-12T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T23:58:32","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nurses for the Rights of the Child<\/em> is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity.\u00a0 As health professionals, we specifically seek to protect non-consenting infants and children from surgical alteration of their healthy genitals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nurses for the Rights of the Child<\/em> was founded in June 1995 by a group of nurses who had become R.N. Conscientious Objectors to infant circumcision at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/nurses-stories\/nurses-speak-out-against-circumcision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the story of the courageous nurses of St.Vincent Hospital here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our work includes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Empowering, supporting, and advising nurses<\/em><\/strong> who want to help stop the genital cutting of infants and children, whether as conscientious objectors or as change agents.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Advocating for babies and children<\/em><\/strong> by educating the public that the forced amputation of a healthy body part of a non-consenting person \u2013 whether in the name of medicine, religion, or social custom \u2013 is a human rights violation.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Providing information to parents and parents-to-be<\/em><\/strong> about circumcision and the intact penis.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Educating health professionals<\/em><\/strong> about circumcision, the intact penis, and the ethics of neonatal circumcision, and promoting curriculum change in the training of health professionals.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Taking leadership in cooperating with others<\/em><\/strong> working in this country and abroad to promote the rights of children to bodily integrity.<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Promoting the human rights principles<\/em><\/strong> of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-804\" src=\"https:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NRC-Logo-1024x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NRC-Logo-1024x410.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NRC-Logo-300x120.jpg 300w, http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NRC-Logo-768x307.jpg 768w, http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/NRC-Logo.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nurses for the Rights of the Child is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of infants and children to bodily integrity.\u00a0 As health professionals, we specifically seek to protect non-consenting infants and children from surgical alteration of their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrightsnurses.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}