Noticias del Fondo Paraguas Rojo
RED UMBRELLA FUND WELCOMES SITHULISILE MOYO AS COORDINATOR
RED UMBRELLA FUND WELCOMES SITHULISILE MOYO AS COORDINATOR 1 July 2024 Dear Community Members, Partners and Allies, In September…
La convocatoria global 2016 está abierta!
¡La nueva convocatoria global del Fondo Paraguas Rojo (2017) está abierta hasta el 28 de julio. Tu grupo, organización o…
Read MoreIn Loving Memory of Sharmus Outlaw
It deeply saddens all of us to have to let go Sharmus Outlaw, our 2016 Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) member,…
Read MoreWhy Sex Work should be Decriminalised
Sex work (or prostitution as many know it) is a subject surrounded by fierce discussion, often about human trafficking. In…
Read MoreAre we really listening?
The discussion on funding anti-trafficking initiatives organized by Global Fund for Women (GFW) and South Asia Women’s Fund (SAWF) at…
Read MoreDeciding for all or all deciding? Exploring Participatory Grantmaking
‘Innovation and iteration’ was the key theme of the January the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) conference in San…
Read MoreOhotu means Love
How the sex workers’ movement in Nigeria is “growing and showing” despite violence The Nigerian Criminal Code penalises sex work…
Read MoreSCOT-PEP Reaches Next Milestone
… On Road to End Violence Against Sex Workers For the first time in the history of the sixteen-year-old Scottish…
Read MoreIn solidarity with Kemal Ördek
Last week, Kemal Ordek, a trans* sex worker and the head of Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association,…
Read MoreEn cariñosa memoria de Elena Tsukerman
Nuestro recuerdo cariñoso para Elena Tsukerman Desde el Fondo Paraguas Rojo hacemos llegar nuestro más sincero pésame por la pérdida…
Read MoreExploring the How and Why of Participatory Grantmaking
The very first session of the funders’ Working Group on Participatory Grantmaking was organised at the International Human Rights Funders…
Read MoreOTS: Mapping Human Rights Violations Against Sex Workers in El Salvador
The Red Umbrella Fund grantee Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS) in El Salvador mapped the situation of sex workers…
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Funding needed to end violence against sex workers
Each year on 17 December, the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, sex worker rights activists and their…
Read MoreSisonke Durban: Sex workers in South Africa claim their human rights
Thuli Khoza, Coordinator of Sisonke Durban and member of the Red Umbrella Fund’s peer review panel in 2014, speaks to…
Read MoreLearning Visit Reflection: Beyond Victories – Funding Human Rights in Brazil
crossposted from the website of the International Human Rights Funders Group IHRFG recently held a Learning Visit in Rio de…
Read More“Stop using condoms as evidence” say sex workers in China
Prostitution is illegal in China where sex workers experience regular police raids and forced detention in rehabilitation centres. As a…
Read MoreSex workers mobilise in Cordoba City, Argentina
Interview with María Eugenia Aravena, the Secretary General of AMMAR-Cordoba (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices Córdoba) by Mama Cash, published in…
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Nothing about us, without us: reversing the power dynamics of philanthropy
Crossposted from OpenDemocracy If money is power, then control over money has to be democratized. What if grants to social…
Read MoreTurkish Trans-Sex Worker makes a case for human rights
On 17 December 2013, the Red Umbrella Sexual Health and Human Rights Association in Turkey launched a short video to…
Read MoreRound Table on Decriminalising Sex Work in Guyana
On February 2, 2014, Miriam Edwards of Guyana Sex Work Coalition, Joel Simpson of Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)…
Read MoreSex Workers in India Launch a National Campaign to End Violence against Sex Workers
In August 2013, sex workers representatives from thirteen states affiliated with the All India Network of Sex Workers (AINSW) launched…
Read MoreSex workers stand up against Russia’s discriminatory and draconian laws
In May 2013, Russia’s national organization of sex workers, Silver Rose, was denied official registration as a non-government organization (NGO)…
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