Circumcision Law Reform has released three new videos analyzing its tactics and demonstrating effective strategies for influencing the medical community.

CLR: Institutional Change over Visibility observes how street protests have raised the visibility of the problem of male genital cutting in the U.S. but have not produced any quantifiable changes within the medical community or resulted in any reliably measurable statistical declines in circumcision rates.

CLR: The JAMA Correction contrasts the aforementioned observation with a simpler, less costly and less time-consuming tactic of a well-informed, irrefutable and direct appeal to the medical power structure that has produced clear and measurable change within the medical community.

CLR: The Healthwise Correction demonstrates how influencing a single upstream information provider can have a sweeping domino effect with downstream content users at the hospital and clinic level.

These are among a string of victories for CLR, with whom GALDEF has collaborated over the past two years. The full slate of CLR campaigns and its 100% success rate in changing (primarily U.S.) policies, statements and clinical websites is impressive and demonstrates how a single dedicated, well-organized and persistent member of the public can achieve quantifiable results that positively affect the health and well-being of children.

Those wishing to replicate CLR’s efforts locally, and more importantly, to coordinate their local actions with CLR, are encouraged to contact: circumcisionlawreform@gmail.com.