The UN, Obama and Prostitution

February 24, 2011

UN Promotes Prostitution as Harm Reduction

NEW YORK, February 24 (C-FAM) A United Nations agency is actively funding the full legalization of prostitution with the support of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The agency even partnered with a prostitution advocacy group to co-chair a UN advisory group on HIV and “sex work.”

UNAIDS, a joint program of the major UN agencies, is promoting “sex work” programs under the guise of harm reduction in combating HIV/AIDS and preventing discrimination against vulnerable groups.

One UNAIDS-funded organization is the Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). The NSWP is the featured website on the controversial Interagency Youth Working Group, a US-funded project. The NSWP is described as an “alliance of sex workers and organizations that provide services to sex workers and promote sex workers’ health and human rights.”

On their website, NSWP actually takes credit for the term ‘sex worker’ replacing ‘prostitute’. “More than mere political correctness,” says NSWP, “this shift in language had the important effect of moving global understandings of sex work toward a labour framework which signposts solutions to many of the problems faced by sex workers. It also questions the stigma of sex work and represents greater recognition of sex workers as rights bearers, with the capacity to make a difference.”

One of NSWP’s major publications is “Making Sex Work Safe.” The introduction of the publication states, “In general, sex workers have high numbers of sexual partners. But this in itself does not necessarily increase the chances of becoming infected with HIV. If condoms are used consistently and correctly, sex workers will not contract HIV – no matter how many clients they have. This means that sex work can be safe.”

US Administration’s Complicity in Youth Prostitution Starts with Obama

February 21, 2011 by Terrence McKeegan, J.D. http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2011/abortion/us-administrations-complicity-in-youth-prostitution-starts-with-obama/

Recently, C-FAM broke the story on a US-funded project that promotes the normalization of youth prostitution.
Shortly before this story, Live Action carried out a series of undercover stings on Planned Parenthood, which resulted in workers from at least seven Planned Parenthood clinics being caught on tape offering advice for covering up underage sex trafficking.
A media storm ensued, and just Saturday, the US House of Representatives voted to cut off all federal funds to Planned Parenthood as part of larger budget cuts. Despite the overwhelming evidence from the Live Action videos, many liberal politicians quickly came to the defense of Planned Parenthood, saying that the clinic workers had acted “professionally”. However, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director, Abby Johnson, appeared on the Bill O’Reilly program and admitted that Planned Parenthood’s complicity with sex trafficking happens “all the time”:

So what was President Obama’s response when he was asked directly about the Planned Parenthood video scandals?
President Obama called the videos manufactured, defended Planned Parenthood’s past work, and stated that “we shouldn’t get so distracted with some of these issues”.
So we have the President Obama saying that we shouldn’t get distracted with an federally-funded organization that is caught on tape in at least seven different clinics with aiding and abetting child prostitution and sex trafficking?
Leadership comes from the top. The US funding for the youth prostitution advocacy project is no accident.