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Red Umbrella Fund: Who Gets to Choose?
This blog was written by Minerva Valenzuela, our Programme Advisory Committee member based in Mexico City. It was initially published…
Read MoreAs Rosas Já Falam: My Love Letter to AWID
From September 8th to 11th, many feminist sex workers’ rights advocates and allies made their way to Salvador da Bahia,…
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Mind the Gap
What we learned about how funders can be moved in the right direction. As human rights and social justice funders,…
Read MoreRed Umbrella Fund at AWID Forum 2016
Are you attending the AWID Forum 2016 in Brazil? Come join sex workers and allies on Friday evening the 9th…
Read MoreMy Feminism Supports Sex Workers’ Rights
When one of the International Steering Committee members of the Red Umbrella Fund asked me why I chose to volunteer…
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 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 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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Turkish 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)…
Read MoreSex Workers stop harmful bill in Scottish Parliament
A young collective of sex workers has successfully opposed the attempts of the Scottish parliament to introduce the Swedish model….
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