Grantee-Partners Map
In the 10 years since our launch in 2012, Red Umbrella Fund has given 279 grants to 180 organisations in 68 countries. Every year we share our list of grants including the names of the grantee-partner organisations that request to be published on our website. Organisations that wish to stay anonymous do not have their name or country publicly available. Please contact us if you would like to contact any of our former-grantees or discuss their work.
In 2022 Red Umbrella Fund’s PAC awarded €1,300,000 – our first time giving more than a million in a single year – bringing total grants to €7,886,500!
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Asociacion de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales: “Unidas en la Esperanza” (UNES)
Asociacion de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales: “Unidas en la Esperanza” (UNES)Paraguay national Spanish Asociacion de Mujeres Trabajadoras Sexuales: “Unidas en la Esperanza” (UNES) promotes public policies and practices that protect women sex workers and that improve their working and living conditions. UNES aims to eradicate all forms of discrimination, stigma, and violence against sex workers. The group carries out sensitisation campaigns in coordination with other sex worker groups in Latin America. UNES organises regular meetings with municipal authorities, health service providers, and local police to promote the wellbeing and rights of sex workers in Paraguay where sex work is not recognised as work.
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Paraguay | Latin America | 2022 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Mujeres del Sur
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Mujeres del SurPeru Local Spanish This organisation led by women sex workers in southern Peru offers support and training to its members to develop public speaking and leadership skills. Mujeres del Sur works to address police harassment, economic exploitation and violence against sex workers in the work place. The group builds alliances with other sex worker and allied organisations at local, national and international levels. It advocates with local governments for sex work to be recognised as work and for sex workers to be able to access quality health and social services Learn more
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Peru | Latin America | 2018 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita Colonia
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita ColoniaPeru Local Spanish This women sex worker-led organisation is based in Iquitos, a remote city in the Amazon area of Peru. Sarita Colonia reaches sex workers of different generations as well as Indigenous sex workers. The group conducts peer education among sex workers and organises workshops to build knowledge of sex workers on human rights and HIV. Sarita Colonia works to influence local policies and laws, including regional ordinances, that impact the lives of sex workers. Learn more
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Peru | Latin America | 2018 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita Colonia
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita ColoniaPeru Local Spanish Sarita Colonia is a women sex worker led organisation based in a remote city of the amazon area in Peru. The group reaches sex workers of different generations as well as indigenous sex workers. The group conducts peer education and capacity building work with sex workers on human rights and HIV. Sarita Colonia aims to influence policies and laws, including regional ordinances, that impact the lives of sex workers. Learn more
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Peru | Latin America | 2015 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita Colonia
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Sarita ColoniaPeru Local Spanish Sarita Colonia is an organisation for and by cisgender and trans women sex workers operating in Iquitos, a remote city of the Amazon in Peru. Thanks to its location, the group involves indigenous sex workers and organises workshops, talks, trainings and advocacy activities to promote the human rights and sexual and reproductive rights of sex workers. Learn more
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Peru | Latin America | 2020 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Trans de Quito (Aso TST de Quito)
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales Trans de Quito (Aso TST de Quito)Ecuador Local, Subnational Spanish This group was formed by and works for trans street sex workers in Quito, the capital city. The group aims to improve the working conditions on the streets for trans sex workers who are vulnerable to harassment and violence. Aso TST Quito organises frequent meetings with local police, mediates in conflicts, conducts regular outreach work on the streets, and provides health services and various other forms of support to trans sex workers. The group cooperates with other sex worker organisations in Latin America to promote the decriminalisation of sex work through the sex worker network Plaperts. Learn more
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Ecuador | Latin America | 2017 |
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales, Miluska, Vida y Dignidad
Asociación de Trabajadoras Sexuales, Miluska, Vida y DignidadPeru National Spanish This sex worker-led group has been working without previous funding for over 15 years for the recognition of sex work as work. Miluska Vida y Dignidad collaborates with a legal advisor to denounce police violence against sex workers and respond to arrests. The group collaborates with other activists in the country and the region to share experiences and conduct joint advocacy for the human rights of sex workers. By setting up a transit house, the group will provide direct support to women sex workers who have experienced violenc Learn more
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Peru | Latin America | 2019 |
Asociación Los Caprichos de Goover
Asociación Los Caprichos de GooverEcuador Local, Subnational Spanish Founded in 2004, Asociación Los Caprichos de Goover sex worker-led group in Quito, Ecuador, unites diverse male sex workers by providing a space where they can come together and ensuring the representation of male sex workers in the sex workers’ rights movement. With this grant, the group will organise a training on sex workers’ rights bringing together sex workers of all genders and decision-makers. Learn more
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Ecuador | Latin America | 2020 |
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)Colombia Local, National Spanish ASMUBULI unites women sex workers in Colombia in their struggle against injustice, inequality and discrimination, and actively contributes to the building of a national sex worker union. The group defends and promotes sex workers’ human rights and aims to create choices and tools that allow sex workers to achieve a better quality of life. ASMUBULI builds the capacity of sex workers in advocacy, governance, democracy, gender and human rights, and implements projects that improve sex workers’ access to health, education, housing and legal services. The group strategically builds partnerships to conduct more effective advocacy at the national level. Learn more
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Colombia | Latin America | 2018 |
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)Colombia Local, National Spanish ASUMBULI unites women sex workers in Colombia in their struggle against injustice, inequality and discrimination. The group defends and promotes sex workers’ human rights and aims to create choices and tools which allow sex workers to achieve a better quality of life, and to empower women sex workers in the country. ASMUBULI builds capacity of sex workers in advocacy, governance, democracy, gender, and human rights and supports projects that improves sex workers’ access to health, education, housing, and legal services. The group strategically builds partnerships and conducts national level advocacy, and is building a national sex worker union. At the international level, ASMUBULI works with the regional sex worker network RedTraSex. Learn more
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Colombia | Latin America | 2016 |
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)
Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Buscando Libertad (ASMUBULI)Colombia local, national Spanish ASMUBULI unites women sex workers in Colombia in their struggle against injustice, inequality and discrimination, and actively contributes to the building of a national sex worker union. The group defends and promotes sex workers? human rights and aims to create choices and tools that allow sex workers to achieve a better quality of life. ASMUBULI builds the capacity of sex workers in advocacy, governance, democracy, gender and human rights, and implements projects that improve sex workers? access to health, education, housing and legal services. The group strategically builds partnerships to conduct more effective advocacy at the national level. With this grant, the organisation aims to organise a variety of capacity-building workshops sex work laws to sexual and reproductive health and more. Learn more
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Colombia | Latin America | 2022 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local Spanish This group of women and trans* sex workers in Campinas aims to end violence from police officers, and tackles stigma and discrimination against sex workers. The group builds solidarity among sex workers, including sex workers living with HIV, particularly in Jardim Itatinga, one of the largest urban sex worker zones in Latin America. Mulheres Guerreiras mobilises sex workers and supporters using arts and cultural events, and engages directly with key decision makers to influence policy and implementation. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2014 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local Spanish Associação Mulheres Guerreiras is a group of sex workers in Campinas, Brazil that aims to end police violence, and tackles stigma and discrimination against cis and trans women sex workers. The group builds solidarity among sex workers, including sex workers living with HIV, in Jardim Itatinga, one of the largest urban sex worker zones in Latin America. Mulheres Guerreiras mobilises sex workers and supporters using arts and cultural events, and engages directly with key decision makers to influence policy and law enforcement. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2016 |
Associação Mulheres Guerreiras
Associação Mulheres GuerreirasBrazil Local English Formed in 2005, Associação Mulheres Guerreiras aims to promote sex workers’ human rights through addressing stigma and discrimination and advocating for law reform. Based in Campinas, the organisation provides legal support and healthcare training locally and supports national advocacy efforts. The group welcomes all sex workers and has a membership of mainly black and trans sex workers. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2020 |
Association Biowa
Association BiowaBenin Local French This is a new organisation which aims to mobilise and educate women sex workers in urban and rural areas of Benin, using peer learning and outreach to other sex workers as a key strategy. The organisation advocates for improved access to health care and for the decriminalisation of sex work.
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Benin | Africa | 2012 |
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STAR
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STARMacedonia Local, Subnational, National English This sex worker-led organisation was the first sex workers’ collective in the Balkans and was legally registered in 2010. The group includes sex workers from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds to promote the human rights of all sex workers and address the diverse needs of sex workers. The group organises advocacy trainings for sex workers, monitors political parties’ views on sex work, and works to influence relevant laws, policies and practices. Learn more
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Macedonia | Europe | 2020 |
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STAR
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STARMacedonia Local, Subnational English This sex workers’ rights organisation in Skopje mobilises sex workers from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds, and working in different sectors of the sex work industry. The group campaigns against discrimination against sex workers, including men and trans* sex workers who face high levels of state harassment. To ensure that sex workers are visible and present in policy development and other decision-making spaces, STAR-STAR works closely with other civil society groups, including those working in the LGBTIQ, health and HIV sectors. Learn more
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Macedonia | Europe | 2015 |
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STAR
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STARMacedonia Local, Subnational, National English This self-led organisation promotes the human rights of sex workers and develops programmes that address their diverse needs in Macedonia. STAR-STAR mobilises sex workers from diverse ethnic and religious backgrounds who are working in different sectors of the sex industry, ranging from brothels to border highways. The group organises advocacy trainings for sex workers, monitors political parties’ views on sex work, and works to influence relevant laws, policies and practices. STAR-STAR is expanding its network with two additional branches, Star-East and Star-West, to better reach sex workers across the country. Learn more
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Macedonia | Europe | 2017 |
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STAR
Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STARMacedonia local, national, international English Sex workers in North Macedonia are facing numerous of social and legal problems, which make the community a vulnerable population, susceptive to various human rights violations and drive sex workers to the margins of society. In this context, STAR-STAR Skopje widely known as STAR-The First Sex Workers Collective in the Balkans is a sex workers? community-led collective mobilizing the sex workers to advocate for law reform in partnership with relevant stakeholders to ultimately secure the respect of sex workers? human rights and freedoms. Learn more
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Macedonia | Europe | 2022 |
Association New Way+
Association New Way+Cameroon Local French This organisation is run by and for sex workers on the outskirts of Douala, Cameroon. Association New Way+ works to increase access to quality health care, including HIV services, for women sex workers. Working primarily at the local level, New Way+ works to mobilise sex workers to stand up against stigma and discrimination and provides information, condoms, HIV services, and referrals. The group coordinates home visits and nutitional support to people living with HIV.
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Cameroon | Africa | 2016 |
Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP)
Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP)Kenya Local English BHESP was created in 1998 and runs 3 clinics in Nairobi providing health and legal services to Kenyan women sex workers. In 2020, the organisation had reached more than 20,000 individuals. To reach its aim of providing quality services to sex workers, BHESP works with over 180 sex worker peer educators. BHESP was instrumental in the creation of the Kenya Sex Workers Alliance. Learn more
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Kenya | Africa | 2020 |
Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP)
Bar Hostess Empowerment & Support Programme (BHESP)Kenya Local, National English This Kenyan national sex worker-led organisation was created in 1998. BHESP runs three community-led clinics providing free and comprehensive health and legal services to sex workers. The group successfully reaches street sex workers who are considered particularly vulnerable. This organisation identifies county laws oppressing sex workers across Kenya and repeals them through legal actions, demonstrations, media campaigns and petitions. BHESP works closely with other sex worker groups in the country and region. Learn more
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Kenya | Africa | 2018 |
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany Local, National English This group unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany to engage in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in the sex industry. Operating as a professional union, BesD amplifies the voices of sex workers in media, public debates and conversations with policymakers. The group provides information to sex workers and works to build greater solidarity among sex worker communities. In response to a recent law on mandatory registration for sex workers, the group is supporting migrant sex workers in Germany who are most affected by the change. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2018 |
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany National English This group unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany to organise and engage in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in sex work. Operating as a professional union, BesD not only amplifies the voices of sex workers in media, public debates and conversations with policymakers, but also fights for improved access to information, training and greater solidarity among the sex worker community. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2014 |
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)
Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD)Germany National English Berufsverband Erotische und sexuelle Dienstleistungen e.V (BesD) is a group that unites sex workers from all backgrounds and regions of Germany. The group engages in the public debate around fair and dignified working conditions in sex work. Operating as a professional union, BesD not only amplifies the voices of sex workers in media and with policymakers, but also fights for improved access to information, training and greater solidarity among the sex worker community. Learn more
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Germany | Europe | 2016 |
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)United States National, International English This advocacy organisation is led by sex workers and dedicated to supporting sex workers’ rights across the United States. BPPP produces materials for policy spaces, addresses research and academic questions, provides organizations and advocates with technical assistance and engages in rights-based campaigns. Learn more
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United States | North America/Caribbean | 2014 |
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)
Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP)United States Local, Subnational, National English Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP) is an advocacy organisation led by sex workers and dedicated to supporting sex workers’ rights across the United States. BPPP produces materials for use in policy advocacy, addresses research and academic questions, provides organisations and advocates with technical assistance and engages in rights-based campaigns for sex worker’s rights. Learn more
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United States | North America/Caribbean | 2016 |
Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network
Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support NetworkCanada Local, National, International English This sex worker-led organisation based in Toronto provides support to and advocates for the rights of Asian and other migrant sex workers in several cities in Canada. Butterfly builds leadership skills and capacities of migrant sex workers through a peer-to-peer programme. Its members visit migrant sex workers in detention centres, prisons and court. The group provides legal support and interpretation services, assists with arranging bail and supports deported workers. Butterfly advocates for changes in anti-trafficking policy and immigration laws to make them less harmful for migrant sex workers. Learn more
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Canada | North America/Caribbean | 2018 |
Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network
Butterfly Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support NetworkCanada Local, National, International English This sex worker-led organisation formed in 2014 as a support network for Asian and migrant sex workers in several cities of Canada. Through legal support, interpretation services and advocacy activities, the organisation fights for sex workers’ entitlement to respect, dignity, equality, basic human rights and justice, regardless of their gender, race and immigration status. Learn more
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Canada | North America/Caribbean | 2020 |
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)Regional Network - Guyana Based International English This network brings together sex workers from organisations across the Caribbean with the aim to promote the health and human rights of sex workers of all genders in the region. CSWC trains its members to become peer educators on HIV and human rights, and builds leadership and advocacy skills. Learn more
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Regional Network - Guyana Based | North America/Caribbean | 2014 |
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)Regional Network - Guyana Based National, International English Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC) is a network that brings together sex workers from organisations across the Caribbean with the aim to promote the health and human rights of sex workers of all genders in the region. CSWC trains its members to become peer educators on HIV and human rights, and builds leadership and advocacy skills. Learn more
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Regional Network - Guyana Based | North America/Caribbean | 2016 |
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)
Caribbean Sex Work Coalition (CSWC)Regional Network - Guyana Based National, International English Created in 2008, Caribbean Sex Work Coalition brings together its sex worker-led member organisations from 6 countries across the Caribbean. The network implements two strategies: advocacy for the promotion of sex workers’ rights and capacity building of its members at national and local levels. With this grant, the networks will organise a training for sex workers from the region to increase their skills on sex worker-led service delivery. Learn more
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Regional Network - Guyana Based | North America/Caribbean | 2020 |
Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans A. C.
Centro de Apoyo a las Identidades Trans A. C.Mexico Local Spanish This self-led group of trans sex workers was legally constituted in 2011 to advocate for trans sex workers’ rights. To do so, the organisation firmly believes in the meaningful involvement of sex workers and aims to increase trans sex workers’ ‘social capital’ through peer-to-peer learning in the metropolitan area of Mexico City. Learn more
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Mexico | Latin America | 2020 |
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)Brazil Local Spanish This sex worker-led group in the State of Paraiba in in the Northeast of Brazil was set up in 1987. CIPMAC speaks out on the right to self-organize, sex workers’ rights and social justice. With this grant the group will build sex workers’ understanding of politics and human rights and organize meetings to influence government representatives at municipal and state levels The group is well connected to the wider sex workers’ rights movement in the country.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2019 |
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)
Centro de Informacion para la Prevencion, Movilizacion y Asesoramiento (CIPMAC)Brazil Local, Subnational Spanish This sex worker-led group in the State of Paraiba in in the north-east of Brazil was set up in 1987. CIPMAC speaks out on the right to self-organize, sex workers’ rights and social justice. With this grant the group will organise workshops on human rights, organise webinars, strengthen its organisation and produce communication materials.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2021 |
Coalicion de Organizaciones de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Sexuales de Quito (La Calle en DisPuta)
Coalicion de Organizaciones de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Sexuales de Quito (La Calle en DisPuta)Ecuador Local, National, International Spanish Known also as La Calle en DisPuta, this new strategic coalition joins together four sex worker organisations that have existed for many years in Quito. The coalition unites sex workers of all genders and gives visibility to sex workers’ struggles against police violence and for the protection of their human rights. The coalition advocates for the labour rights of sex workers and local and national level and aims to create a labour union for sex workers. At regional level, La Calle en DisPuta is connected to the Plataforma Latinoamericana de Personas que Ejercen Trabajo Sexual (PLAPERTS). Learn more
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Ecuador | Latin America | 2016 |
Coalition Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre pour le travail du sexe (CAFOC-TS)
Coalition Afrique de l’Ouest et du Centre pour le travail du sexe (CAFOC-TS)Regional Network - Senegal Based International French Formed in 2015, this network of 21 sex worker-led organisations in 14 countries in West and Central Africa focuses on building the leadership of sex workers in Francophone Africa. CAFOC-TS works to harmonise sex workers’ rights advocacy in the region and to document and share the successes of its members. The network collaborates with the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) and Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) to better address the specific needs of Francophone sex workers.
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Regional Network - Senegal Based | Africa | 2019 |
Colectivo de Prostitutas de Sevilla (CPS)
Colectivo de Prostitutas de Sevilla (CPS)Spain Local Spanish This self-led group of sex workers was created in 2017 to challenge the restrictive municipal law on sex work in the province of Seville. CPS gives presentations at universities and organises parties and demonstrations to raise awareness among the general public about the realities and needs of sex workers. With this grant, CPS is bringing together sex workers’ rights activists from across the country to foster solidarity and peer support and develop joint strategies to improve the human rights of sex workers in Spain. Learn more
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Spain | Europe | 2019 |
Coletivo Clã das Lobas
Coletivo Clã das LobasBrazil local Spanish Coletivo Clã das Lobas is a non-profit collective founded in 2018 by sex workers who work in hotels, streets and avenues of Belo Horizonte and its metropolitan region in Brazil. The organisation was founded from the need to work with sex workers with a focus on wellbeing. With this grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to cover some core costs, maintain its safe space, work to see about potentially registering and organise workshops on responding to violence, Human Rights and advocacy.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2022 |
Coletivo Rebu – Minas Gerais
Coletivo Rebu – Minas GeraisBrazil Local Spanish This group was established in 2015 to benefit cis, trans and transvestite sex workers working on the streets and in hotels in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Coletivo Rebu organises conversation circles with sex workers in hotel venues, conducts outreach work, distributes condoms and lubricants, and gives information regarding health prevention and sexual and reproductive rights of sex workers. The group advocates at the city, regional and state levels for the rights of sex workers. Learn more
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Brazil | Latin America | 2018 |