Mapa de organizaciones socias beneficiarias
En los 10 años que llevamos desde nuestro lanzamiento en 2012, el Fondo Paraguas Rojo ha concedido 279 subvenciones a 180 organizaciones de 68 países. Cada año compartimos nuestra lista de subvenciones, incluyendo los nombres de las organizaciones socias beneficiarias que solicitan ser publicadas en nuestro sitio web. as organizaciones que desean permanecer en el anonimato no tienen su nombre ni su país a disposición del público. Por favor, contáctanos si quieres ponerte en contacto con alguna de nuestras anteriores organizaciones beneficiarias o hablar de su trabajo.
En 2022, el PAC del Fondo Paraguas concedió 1.300.000 euros, siendo la primera vez que concedemos más de un millón en un solo año, con lo cual ¡el total de nuestras subvenciones ascendió a 7.886.500 euros!
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| Nombre de la organizacion | País | Region | Años |
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Parapli RouzParapli RouzMauritius National English This community-led group advocates for the recognition of sex work as work in Mauritius. At the local level, the group works to strengthen the capacity of sex workers through educational workshops on health, economic development, human rights rights and advocacy skills. Nationally, Parapli Rouz organises regular community gatherings, bringing together sex workers from different regions of the country to share experiences and strengthen cooperation. The group plans to use the grant to expand its emergency support to sex workers by setting up a phone hotline. Learn more
| Mauritius | Africa | 2017 |
Parapli RouzParapli RouzMauritius Local, National English This group builds sex workers’ knowledge and skills on human rights and advocacy with the aim to have sex work recognised as work in Mauritius. Parapli Rouz provides legal support to sex workers to protect their right to carry condoms and to be able to maintain custody of their children. The group also offers peer education and HIV testing among sex workers across the island with their outreach caravan. Learn more
| Mauritius | Africa | 2019 |
Petubuhan Advokasi Masayrakat Terpinggir (PAMT)Petubuhan Advokasi Masayrakat Terpinggir (PAMT)Malaysia Local, Subnational, National English Established in 2011, this organisation supports sex workers’ access to health care through peer education, condom distribution and referrals to health and social services. The group supports sex workers in setting up their own support groups, and aims to improve the living and working conditions of sex workers in the country. With the Red Umbrella Fund grant, PAMT will set up a crisis response team to support sex workers who face violence, exploitation, and arrest.
| Malaysia | Asia/Pacific | 2013 |
Philadelphia Red Umbrella AlliancePhiladelphia Red Umbrella AllianceUnited States Local English WAITING FOR CONSENT FORM Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliance (Philly RUA), established in 2014, is a sex worker organisation in Philadelphia dedicated to promoting sex worker rights through an intersectional lens. Comprising 100% sex worker members, the organization participates in political advocacy, and outreach, and organizes local workers with the mission of fully decriminalizing sex work in Philadelphia and beyond. The organization aims to be a city-wide resource for all sex workers, especially those facing challenges accessing services. Philly RUA engages in political education, building alliances with other social movements, and managing online spaces for sex workers. With Red Umbrella Fund?s support, Philly RUA plans to establish an operational budget, create paid staffing positions, provide stipends for core members, and allocate funding towards political campaigns, workshops, events, travel stipends, and creating materials to highlight issues facing sex workers in Philadelphia and advocate for full decriminalization.
| United States | North America/Caribbean | 2023 |
Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliance (PhillyRUA)Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliance (PhillyRUA)United States Local English Philadelphia Red Umbrella Alliancen was created in 2014 to promote sex workers’ rights through an intersectional lens in the city of Philadelphia in the United States of America. The organisation is dedicated to ending stigma and violence against sex workers through labour organising and advocacy. Learn more
| United States | North America/Caribbean | 2021 |
Pilot Mathambo Centre for Men’s HealthPilot Mathambo Centre for Men’s HealthBotswana Subnational English This group of men sex workers works to improve sex workers’ access to adequate health care services, especially with regard to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, management of other sexually transmitted infections, and psychosocial support. PMCMH regularly contributes to research among sex workers and advocates for decriminalizing sex work decriminalisation nationally level. The group provides workshops for men sex workers to enhance their safer sex negotiation and financial management skills and increase their safety and security.
| Botswana | Africa | 2017 |
Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Regional Network - Ecuador based local, national, international Spanish Sex work is criminalised in most Latin American countries and some countries implement restrictive legal systems. As a regional network, PLAPERTS unites sex worker-led organisations working with sex workers of all genders in 13 Latin American countries. Formed in Peru in 2013, the regional network is now based in Ecuador. The network is a space to share information and provides capacity building to its members as well as advocates for the fulfilment of sex workers? human rights. With this third grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the network will develop its monitoring and evaluation plan, organise virtual workshops, carry out advocacy activities and publications and cover some of its core costs. Learn more
| Regional Network - Ecuador based | Latin America | 2022 |
Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Regional Network - Ecuador Based Subnational, National, International Spanish This regional network, created in 2013 and based in Ecuador, unites 28 member organisations of sex workers of all genders in seven countries of Latin America. PLAPERTS offers trainings to its members to develop strategies and conduct political advocacy for the recognition of the labour and other human rights of sex workers. PLAPERTS reinforces local leadership and shares tools among its members to denounce the violations of sex workers’ rights in the challenging context of rising conservatism and violence in Latin America. Learn more
| Regional Network - Ecuador Based | Latin America | 2018 |
Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Regional Network - Ecuador Based Local, Subnational, National, International Spanish Sex work is criminalised in most Latin American countries and some countries implement restrictive legal systems. As a regional network, PLAPERTS unites sex worker-led organisations working with sex workers of all genders in 11 Latin American countries. Formed in Peru in 2013, the regional network is now based in Ecuador. The network is a space to share information and provides capacity building to its members as well as advocates for the fulfilment of sex workers’ human rights. With this grant, the network will implement a virtual training on social protection and carry out campaigns demystifying sex work and promoting the recognition of sex work as work in the Latin American context. Learn more
| Regional Network - Ecuador Based | Latin America | 2020 |
Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS)Ecuador International Spanish Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS) is a Latin American platform that was formed in 2013 by sex worker leaders from Mexico, Peru, Brazil, and Ecuador with the intention of creating an inclusive network that represented the diversity of sex workers. They have grown to include 15 countries in 2024 and focuses on strengthening the leadership, mobilization, and activism for the defense and promotion of the human, labor, and health rights of sex workers through coordinated strategies with key actors and allied organizations.
| Ecuador | Latin America | 2024 |
Pow WowPow WowZimbabwe Local, National English This local group of sex workers of all genders was created in 2014. It is a founding member of the national network of sex workers in the country and a member of the regional network, the African Sex Workers Alliance. Pow Wow led the successful effort to outlaw solicitation arrests of female sex workers and aims to expand the ruling to apply to all genders. The group conducts peer outreach and holds themed bi-weekly dialogues with sex workers to foster solidarity among the diverse sex workers that it brings together. Learn more
| Zimbabwe | Africa | 2019 |
Project XProject XSingapore Local, National English Project X is the only rights-based, non-profit organisation in Singapore that provides social, emotional and health services to people in the sex industry. Project X envision a fair and safe sex industry for everyone involved, and a society that respects sex workers, their clients, partners and families.
| Singapore | Asia/Pacific | 2024 |
Projet LUNEProjet LUNECanada Local French This organisation of sex workers operates in the city of Quebec. The group reaches mostly women sex workers who use drugs and those working on the streets with practical support and advice, including peer-led trainings about condom use, accessing health services, self-defence, and human rights. Through their journal ‘Les voix de la RuELLES’ (The Voice of the Streets) sex workers are able to speak out and share their experiences and demands. Learn more
| Canada | North America/Caribbean | 2013 |
Prostitutie Informatie Centrum (PIC) AmsterdamProstitutie Informatie Centrum (PIC) AmsterdamNetherlands Local English The PIC is a small sex-worker-run information centre in Amsterdam?s Red-Light District. The PIC exists to fight stigma against sex workers and sex work and improve sex workers? lives, including through advocacy for decriminalisation. The RUF grant will support longer-term planning to ensure that the PIC can stay open and be self-sustaining into the future.
| Netherlands | Europe | 2024 |
PROUDPROUDNetherlands Local, National English This recently created union works with sex workers from different sectors of the sex industry in the Netherlands to oppose criminalisation, stigma and discrimination against sex workers and improve their working conditions. PROUD builds capacity and leadership of sex workers of all genders and provides direct support and referrals, documents cases of human rights violations, reaches out to media, and advocates for the rights of sex workers in national and local legislation and policies. Learn more
| Netherlands | Europe | 2015 |
Public Association Shah-AiymPublic Association Shah-AiymRegional Network - Kyrgyzstan Based National, International Russian This network unites sex workers from across Kyrgyzstan and neighbouring countries (mainly Tajikistan and Russia) to build peer support structures and amplify the voices of sex workers in public and policy debates. Shah-Aiym documents rights violations and builds the capacity of sex workers on leadership, advocacy, safety and security. In Kyrgyzstan, Shah-Aiym aims to protect existing legislation that decriminalises sex work while speaking out against police violence against sex workers. In Tajikistan, Shah Aiym builds the capacity of sex workers to enable the creation of an independent national organisation.
| Regional Network - Kyrgyzstan Based | Europe | 2018 |
Public Association Shah-AiymPublic Association Shah-AiymKyrgyzstan Subnational, National Russian This emerging network aims to strengthen the voice of sex workers in public and policy debates in Kyrgyzstan by uniting sex workers from across the country. The network documents and speaks out against police violence. It also works to ensure that the existing law – which decriminalises sex work – is not undermined by new policies and programmes which are aimed at ending sex trafficking, which often have a negative effect on the rights of sex workers.
| Kyrgyzstan | Europe | 2013 |
Public Association Shah-AiymPublic Association Shah-AiymRegional Network - Kyrgyzstan Based National, International Russian This network unites sex workers from across Kyrgyzstan and increasingly also from neighbouring countries to build peer support structures and amplify the voices of sex workers in public and policy debates. Shah-Aiym documents rights violations and builds capacity of sex workers on leadership, advocacy and safety and security. In Kyrgyzstan, Shah-Aiym aims to protect existing legislation that decriminalises sex work while speaking out against police violence against sex workers.
| Regional Network - Kyrgyzstan Based | Europe | 2016 |
Que se lo Quite BurlesqueQue se lo Quite BurlesquePuerto Rico National Spanish Que se lo Quite Burlesque is a Puerto Rican group founded in 2022 that works with sex workers of all identities and life experiences addressing both immediate needs and broader systemic issues often through art. With a freelance model that allows for every member to contribute from their capacities and availabilities and their believe in shared power and decisionmaking, Que se lo Quite shows commitment to the comprehensive wellbeing of the sex worker community.
| Puerto Rico | North America/Caribbean | 2024 |
Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de América Latina y el CaribeRed de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de América Latina y el CaribeParaguay International Spanish This 27-year-old regional network of sex worker-led groups in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean has members in 14 countries. Its mission is to support national sex workers? organisations in their fight towards the recognition of sex workers? rights. RedTraSex organises trainings of its members on political advocacy, participates in national and international advocacy spaces, runs media campaigns, and produces and disseminates evidence-based material to promote sex workers? rights.
| Paraguay | Latin America | 2023 |
Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de América Latina y El Caribe (REDTRASEX)Red de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales de América Latina y El Caribe (REDTRASEX)Regional Network - Argentina Based International Spanish This 20-year-old regional network of sex worker-led groups in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean has members in 14 countries and reaches 17,000 sex workers. Its mission is to support national sex workers’ organisations in their fight towards recognition of sex workers’ rights. RedTraSex organises trainings of its members on political advocacy, participates in national and international advocacy spaces, runs media campaigns, and produces and disseminates evidence-based material to promote sex workers’ rights. Learn more
| Regional Network - Argentina Based | Latin America | 2017 |
Red de Mujeres Unidas por Nuestros Derechos (REDMUDE)Red de Mujeres Unidas por Nuestros Derechos (REDMUDE)Honduras Local, Subnational, National Spanish Red de Mujeres Unidas por Nuestros Derechos works in Honduras to promote the health and rights of sex workers. To do so, the organisation has coordinated actions with health and justice workers and aims to use its grant from Red Umbrella Fund to continue this work, furhter build the capacity of sex workers to carry out this project, and map relevant organisations. Learn more
| Honduras | Latin America | 2021 |
Red por el Reconocimiento de lxs Trabajadorxs Sexuales (RxRTS)Red por el Reconocimiento de lxs Trabajadorxs Sexuales (RxRTS)Argentina Local, Subnational, National Spanish Red por el Reconocimiento de lxs Trabajadorxs Sexuales’s mission is to promote new strategies throughout Argentina to demand and develop public policies for the protection of sex workers’ rights. Formed in 2012, the organisation has been crucial in organising relief for sex workers during the Covid-19 pandemic and took part in advocacy campaigns at Latin American level. Learn more
| Argentina | Latin America | 2021 |
Red Umbrella Project (RedUP)Red Umbrella Project (RedUP)United States Local, Subnational English This New York-based group organises theatre, storytelling and memoir writing programmes in which sex workers of all genders share experiences with a wide audience to reduce stigma and fight discrimination. The group campaigns for improvements in legislation, such as the ‘No Condoms as Evidence’ campaign, which aims to ban the use of condoms as evidence of prostitution-related offenses. The group builds the leadership skills and capacity of sex workers through trainings that enable them to run their own advocacy campaigns. Learn more
| United States | North America/Caribbean | 2013 |
Red Umbrella Project (RedUP)Red Umbrella Project (RedUP)United States Local, Subnational, National English RedUp amplifies the voices of diverse sex workers through media, storytelling, peer-led trainings and creative advocacy programs with the aim to reduce stigma, promote human rights, increase access to justice and personal development. The group founded the successful Access to Condoms Coalition in New York to fight against the use of condoms by police as evidence of prostitution. The group monitored the activities of the Human Trafficking Intervention Courts in New York City and uses the data to lobby for better laws and policies in relation to trafficking and sex work. Learn more
| United States | North America/Caribbean | 2015 |
Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Turkey Local, National English This group in Ankara documents violence and other human rights violations against sex workers and provides legal assistance to sex workers of all genders to seek justice. The data that is collected by the group is also used in public awareness raising activities targeting civil society, media and academia and in its lobbying with government officials to improve the legislation that affects sex workers in Turkey. The group also provides training for sex workers on human rights. Learn more
| Turkey | Europe | 2013 |
Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Turkey Local, National English This group documents violence and other human rights violations against sex workers and provides legal assistance to sex workers of all genders. The group collects data that is used for its public awareness raising activities targeting civil society, media and academia and for lobbying with government officials to improve the legislation that affects sex workers in Turkey. Learn more
| Turkey | Europe | 2014 |
Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association (Red Umbrella Turkey – Kimizi Semsiye)Turkey Local, National English This organisation works locally and nationally to improve the human rights and wellbeing of sex workers in Turkey. Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association supports access to sexual health and prevention services for sex workers of all genders and increases visibility and awareness of human rights violations they experience. Red Umbrella monitors and documents violence against sex workers, collaborates with bar associations to train lawyers and provides legal services to sex workers. The group builds alliances with community groups, NGOs, service providers, the United Nations, academia and media to strengthen its lobby towards key decision makers to improve laws and practices that affect sex workers. Learn more
| Turkey | Europe | 2016 |
Right Side Human Rights Defender NGORight Side Human Rights Defender NGOArmenia national English Right Side is a community based, democratic, human rights defender NGO, founded in January 2016 by transgender sex worker activists in Armenia. It is the first and only NGO run by and for trans people and sex workers in Armenia and in the South Caucasus. The organisation’s members are representatives of the sex worker community, including trans, cis and LGBQI sex workers. With their second grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to organise workshops, roundtables, cover some of their core costs and provide small grants to sex worker groups in the country. Learn more
| Armenia | Europe | 2022 |
Right Side Human Rights Defender NGORight Side Human Rights Defender NGOArmenia National English This sex worker-led group founded in 2016 works to ensure the well-being, protection and equality of sex workers and trans people in Armenia. To do so, the group cooperates with national and international actors to work on socio-cultural and legal change. Learn more
| Armenia | Europe | 2020 |
Right Side Human Rights Defender NGORight Side Human Rights Defender NGOArmenia National English Right Side is a community based, democratic, human rights defender NGO, founded in January 2016 by transgender sex worker activists in Armenia. It is the first and only NGO run by and for trans people and sex workers in Armenia and in the South Caucasus. The organisation’s members are representatives of the sex worker community, including trans, cis and LGBQI sex workers. With this third grant, the organisation aims to provide trainings for their membership in legal literacy and self-advocacy training as well as digital security and online privacy,
| Armenia | Europe | 2024 |
SafeSpace LondonSafeSpace LondonCanada local English SafeSpace is a drop-in centre and community collective operated for, by and with sex workers (past and present), allies, and women and gender-nonconforming individuals in London, Canada. Through its work, SafeSpace supports sex workers by fostering relationships of trust, transparency, and empowerment, and mitigating the impacts of criminalisation, discrimination, violence and stigma in the lives of sex workers. The group provides harm reduction supplies, hygiene products, educational resources and peer support. Learn more
| Canada | North America/Caribbean | 2022 |
SafeSpace LondonSafeSpace LondonCanada Local English This community drop-in centre is run by and for women – including trans – and non-binary sex workers and allies. SafeSpace focuses on improving the living conditions of sex workers in their community. The group provides harm reduction supplies, hygiene products, educational resources and peer support. Through their ‘Not Your Rescue Project’ theatre production, SafeSpace educates students at colleges and universities about sex workers’ human rights. At national level, the group participates in the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform. Learn more
| Canada | North America/Caribbean | 2019 |
Sangharsha Mahila Samuha (SMS)Sangharsha Mahila Samuha (SMS)Nepal Local, Subnational English This women-led sex worker organisation in Bhaktapur District in the east of the Kathmandu Valley was set up in 2010 to promote the health and human rights of sex workers. The group works together with other organisations to improve access for sex workers to health services including HIV and STI treatment and safe abortion services. SMS will take action during the international 16 days of activism against gender based violence campaign to address violence against sex workers.
| Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |
SAVE (Sex workers Against Violence and Exploitation)SAVE (Sex workers Against Violence and Exploitation)Netherlands Local, National English SAVE is a sex worker led horizontal organisation born in 2019 as a campaign to share information about the WRS (the national sex work regulation law) in The Netherlands by informing other sex workers, politicians and the general public about the WRS and its repercussions. SAVE regularly collaborates with other local and national sex worker collectives and allies. This young group strives for a world where individuals are able to start, continue, or leave sex work safely and free from violence and coercion.
| Netherlands | Europe | 2023 |
Scarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers AssociationScarlet Alliance, Australian Sex Workers AssociationAustralia National English Scarlet Alliance is a collective of sex work-led organisations and individuals in Australia, where they engage in movement building with the organisations in the country and advocate for the ASIAN migrant sex workers in areas of immigration. The organisation incorporates sex workers organisations to represent sex workers’ policy issues and human rights on behalf of sex workers in the country with the mandate of addressing national issues and supporting local sex worker-led groups to carry out their organising, peer education and advocacy to state/territory governments.
| Australia | Asia/Pacific | 2023 |
SCOT-PEPSCOT-PEPUnited Kingdom National English Founded in 1989, this is the oldest organisation that is led by sex workers in Scotland. It campaigns for sex work to be recognised both socially and legally as work, and for sex workers’ voices to be included in public debates. SCOT-PEP lobbies the Scottish parliament for the decriminalisation of sex work and against the ‘Safer Lives, Changed Lives’ policy strategy which aims to eradicate violence against women and defines sex work as exploitation, irrespective of the opinion of the women involved. Learn more
| United Kingdom | Europe | 2013 |
Sex Work And Sexual Health (SWASH)Sex Work And Sexual Health (SWASH)Japan National English SWASH is a 25-year-old organisation advocating for the rights of sex workers of all genders in Japan. Initially founded to address a gap in HIV/STI outreach, the organisation has since then carried out a number of community-led research projects across the country, especially among migrant sex workers, and advocates to fight criminalisation, stigma and discrimination through community empowerment, international alliance-building, online campaigns, political lobbying and innovative artivism strategies.
| Japan | Asia/Pacific | 2023 |
Sex Work PolskaSex Work PolskaPoland Local, Subnational, National English Formed in 2014, this organisation provides services to sex workers, networking opportunities and carries out advocacy activities. The organisation works with a particular focus on outreach and the legal environment and its impact on sex workers in Poland. Learn more
| Poland | Europe | 2021 |
Sex Work; Education, Advocacy & Rights Western Australia (SWEAR-WA)Sex Work; Education, Advocacy & Rights Western Australia (SWEAR-WA)Australia local English Sex Work; Education, Advocacy & Rights Western Australia provides peer support and referrals, trains healthcare providers and hosts peer-only special events besides lobbying for legislative change around sex work in Western Australia. With the support from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to create a handbook for sex workers covering topics such as: the state sex work legislation explained in simple language, how to work safely, tips and tricks from other West Australian sex workers, information for touring workers, and information on where to get support. Learn more
| Australia | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |