WASHINGTON (AN) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled foreign affiliates of U.S.-based organizations lack free speech rights and, therefore, must adopt policies opposing prostitution to get federal money to fight AIDS abroad.
The case hinged on whether a foreign affilitate of Alliance for Open Society International had to adhere to an anti-prostitution pledge required in a 2003 federal law as a condition of receiving taxpayer money from a federal program that has disbursed almost US$80 billion against the global spread of HIV/AIDS.
