Amnesty International and Mens rights: buy and sell sex

German version available on: http://www.abolition2014.blogspot.de/
Warm thanks to @IngeReed -German version- and @PhoenixUtters for fixing, reading, translating, and editing! !

 

According to an internal leaked document from Amnesty International, the organization fights hard to defend people involved in prostitution. Namely, clients and pimps.

This document is not an harmless draft escaped from an intern’s drawer. This is an internal policy document to define the global strategy of the organization on the prostitution issue. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wrote an open letter to Amnesty, because such a policy in destroying YEARS of progress in the fight against sexual exploitation. Amnesty Sweden and Amnesty Australia have publicly dissociated themselves from their headquarters.

This document states that criminalizing a prostitute’s client is an attack against both privacy and individuals free choice. This document also states that the access to  prostituted women is a fundamental human right.

NO LESS.

Amnesty is a prestigious organization known for its fight for the rights of political prisoners, against forced marriages, against summary executions, etc. And it is now campaigning for men’s rights to access the bodies of those more vulnerable than themselves. This is both shocking and hard to understand. In a time where the debate around prostitution is raging, it is of extreme importance to analyze Amnesty’s text, and understand the significance of this stance- especially when it is defended by an organization which inspires people.

So how, when and why did Amnesty turned it’s back on the victims and began to fight for the pimps?

In 12 points, we will see that:

1. Amnesty deliberately mixes up the conflicting interests of prostituted women and buyers;

2.  Amnesty minimizes the extent of human trafficking for sexual exploitation;

3. Amnesty the emotional and physical costs of prostitution and present it as an autonomous life choice;

4. Amnesty defends full decriminalization, while legalizing countries have turned to disasters;

5. Amnesty defines prostitution as female empowerment for those living with less than 2,50$ a day;

6 and 7: Amnesty definition of sex work. When food and shelter become remuneration;

8. Amnesty defends porn, in the name of ART and freedom of expression;

9. Amnesty defends pimping as support function;

10. Amnesty considers access to prostitutes as a New Mens’ Right;

11. Amnesty quotes International Treaties but lie about their content;

12. Amnesty defends clients, because # notallmen are violent!

And (conclusion), you may want to know why Amnesty is taking this stance? A sickening yet foreseeable reply.

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Le trésor caché des Nations Unies

Le trésor caché des Nations Unies

En visite aux Nations Unies à Vienne, j’ai eu l’immense privilège de découvrir leur secret le mieux gardé. Une œuvre d’art poignante fièrement exposée entre deux ascenseurs du bâtiment D-E.

Car si le rôle de l’art est de couper le souffle, provoquer la stupeur et le questionnement, dans les faits, très peu de réalisations artistiques y parviennent. Lady Gaga et Madonna ont déjà exploité toutes les possibilités de masturbation curcifixoire, et les séries télé (nous) sont passées (par) derrière.

Mais le tableau du Batiment D-E m’a profondément secoué. Sa présence obsédante entre ces deux ascenseurs m’a hantée toute la réunion. Sous un faux prétexte, je l’ai prise en photo.

Le coeur palpitant, je me demande à présent, comment rendre justice à ce chef-d’oeuvre? Au delà des émotions complexes qu’il provoque (entre autres, hilarité et embarras) je vais tenter de l’analyser avec la ferveur et l’honnêteté qu’il mérite.

Car j’étais partie -et vous aussi- pour une histoire palpitante de guerres et complots, ou les conspirations s’entremêlent à l’incompétence administrative du plus haut niveau; où dictateurs et grands de ce monde se croisent dans les couloirs tortueux du pouvoir au mieux de leurs intérêts respectifs.

 

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