Memorandum of Law of Organizations As Amici Curiae - to AMICI v. US Agency for International Development (Civil Action No. 05-CV-8209)
- Document number
- 1034
- Date
- 2005
- Title
- Memorandum of Law of Organizations As Amici Curiae - to AMICI v. US Agency for International Development (Civil Action No. 05-CV-8209)
- Author/publisher
- Alliance for Open Society International Inc. and Open Society Institute
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Guidelines/Recommendations,
- Keywords
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID); Alliance for Open Society International, Open Society Institute, Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development: Apne Aap; Association IROKO; Association Women in Contemporary Society; Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition; Breaking Free; BUKLOD; Center for Counseling and Information on Sexual Violence (Stigamot); Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Asia Pacific; Girls Education and Mentoring Services (GEMS); International Union – Center for Foreign Citizens and Migrants Rights and Security; Kvinnefronten (Women’s Front); Minorities and Survivors Improving Empowerment (MASIE); MiraMed Institute; Pandora; Prostitution Research and Education; Standing Against Global Exploitation (the SAGE Project); Shelter Movement Secretariat; BAGONG
- Summary
- The imperatives of PEPFAR and the AIDS Leadership Act are placed in jeopardy by USAID's requirement that public health organizations and other groups that receive funding under the AIDS Leadership Act must adopt a written policy "explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking". In its memorandum, Point One, Amici contends that the prostitution and sex trafficking industry is inherently harmful; in Point Two, that it is possible and in fact optimal to oppose this industry without stigmatizing or criminalizing its victims; in Point Three, that the legislation at issue requires opposition to the legalization and practice of prostitution and sex trafficking, not stigmatization of its victims; and in Point Four, that the provisions of the legislation were enacted in response to specific abuses documented prior to the legislation's enactment.
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