NLPC Criticizes Soros' Open Society Institute for Planning to Sue USAID over Prostitution Issue
U.S. Newswire, September, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today criticized the Open Society Institute (OSI), a private foundation funded and controlled by billionaire George Soros, for reportedly threatening to sue the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to today's Wall Street Journal, OSI "warns the U.S. Agency for International Development it plans to file suit today over requirement that recipients of federal AIDS grants pledge to oppose prostitution. The group would be the second charity to challenge the policy, which AIDS activists say stigmatizes prostitutes and makes it harder to fight the disease."
"It is bad enough that taxpayer funds are being spent to subsidize the private foundation of a...
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