Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Reproductive rights

Reproductive rights
 view edit delete watch Filed: 03:10, February 4 2008 (UTC)

Other steps in dispute resolution that have been attempted

 * Article and user talk page discussions
 * Third opinion by User:Pigman, leading to an AN discussion, ending in a recommendation for mediation

Issues to be mediated

 * The party filing this request uses this section to list the issues for mediation. Other parties can list additional issues in the section below.


 * Are reproductive rights a sub-set of human rights and can WP assert that they are (as in the case of the main article Human rights)?
 * Is the statement "Various reproductive rights have been established as human rights in international human rights documents" a fact or an opinion? If a fact, do inline citations from two peer-reviewed sources and Amnesty International satisfy WP:V?
 * Is this material, removed from the article, regarding men's reproductive heath and the transmission of STIs sexist? If so, does it merit exclusion?
 * Female genital cutting is titled so by a straw poll consensus. Should the body of the article reflect this usage or should it use any combination of female genital cutting, female genital mutilation, and female circumcision interchangeably?
 * The article states/stated that "FGC transcends religion as a primarily cultural practice". Both Muslims and Christians practice FGC, yet there is a POV that Muslim FGC is a religious practice while Christian FGC is not (a cultural practice by default). A number of reliable sources state that FGC is a cultural practice as it predates either religion, and that there is no unequivocal link between religion and prevalence. Given these points, is the statement (above) NPOV?

Additional issues to be mediated

 * Other parties can use this section to list any others issues they wish to include in the mediation. Please do not modify or remove any other party's listing. Please sign all additions to this section if there are more than two parties involved in this case.


 * Additional issue 1
 * Additional issue 2

Parties' agreement to mediate

 * All parties should sign below, indicating that they agree to mediate the issue. If any party fails to sign, or if a party indicates they do not agree, then the mediation will be rejected. Only "Agree" or "Disagree" and signatures should appear here; any comments will be removed, but can be made at the talk page.


 * 1) Agree. Phyesalis (talk) 03:10, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 2) Agree. --Coppertwig (talk) 03:26, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) Agree. Blackworm (talk) 18:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Decision of the Mediation Committee

 * A member of the Mediation Committee will indicate acceptance/rejection/other relevant notes in this section. Non-Committee members should not edit this section.
 * Accept
 * For the Mediation Committee, --  tariq abjotu  22:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Opening. Shell babelfish 18:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)