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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Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la Mujer
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la MujerChile Local Spanish This group promotes the sexual and reproductive health, including HIV/AIDS, and human rights of women sex workers in Chile. The group reaches around 700 sex workers, most of them in the capital city, through outreach by peer educators, handing out condoms, accompanying sex workers to health centres, and informative workshops. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will enable the group to build leadership and advocacy skills of sex workers in different parts of the country. Learn more
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Chile | Latin America | 2013 |
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la Mujer
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la MujerChile Local, Subnational, National Spanish This group promotes the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women sex workers in Chile. The group reaches around 2000 sex workers across the country through condom distribution, peer education on HIV and human rights, accompaniment of sex workers to health centres and by organising informative workshops. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will enable the group to expand its efforts to build leadership and advocacy skills of sex workers in different parts of the country. Learn more
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Chile | Latin America | 2014 |
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la Mujer
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la MujerChile Local, Subnational, National Spanish Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la Mujer is a group that promotes sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women sex workers in Chile. The group reaches around 2,000 sex workers, including many migrant women, across the country through condom distribution, peer education on HIV and human rights, accompaniment of sex workers to health centres and by organising informative workshops. The Red Umbrella Fund grant is enabling the group to expand its efforts to build leadership and advocacy skills of sex workers in different parts of the country. Learn more
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Chile | Latin America | 2016 |
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la Mujer
Fundación Margen de Apoyo y Promoción de la MujerChile Local, Subnational, National Spanish This group promotes the sexual and reproductive health and human rights of women sex workers in Chile. Fundación Margen reaches around 2000 sex workers across the country, including many migrant women, by distributing condoms, providing peer education on HIV and human rights, offering accompaniment of sex workers to health centres, and organising informative community workshops. The Red Umbrella Fund grant supports the group to expand its efforts to build local leadership and advocacy skills of sex workers in different parts of the country. Learn more
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Chile | Latin America | 2018 |
Goreto Nepal
Goreto NepalNepal Local English In a context where buying sex is criminalised, this sex worker-led organisation working in the Pokhara valley of Nepal aims to end stigma and discrimination faced by women sex workers and their children through community mobilisation, advocacy activities and alliance building.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2020 |
Grupo de Mulheres Prostitutas do Estado Pará (GEMPAC)
Grupo de Mulheres Prostitutas do Estado Pará (GEMPAC)Brazil Local English Founded over 20 years ago, GEMPAC works in the state of Pará in northern Brazil, mobilising women sex workers to confront violence and to challenge the stigma surrounding sex work. The group partners with artists to organise cultural events and uses visual arts as part of its fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2012 |
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)Bangladesh Local, National English This group promotes sex workers’ safety, health and human rights by mobilising the community and organising capacity-building opportunities for sex workers. HARC monitors HIV and sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, and challenges laws, policies and practices that are harmful to sex workers. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will enable the group to conduct city scans in Bangladesh to expand its knowledge about the situation of sex workers working in hotels, brothels, residences, and on the street. Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2015 |
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)Bangladesh Local, National English This sex worker-led group promotes sex workers’ safety, health, and human rights by mobilising the community and organising capacity-building opportunities for sex workers. HARC provides referrals to HIV and sexual and reproductive health services. The group also challenges laws and policies that are harmful to sex workers. Building on the knowledge and experience gained through the group’s previous Red Umbrella Fund grant, HARC plans to use this grant to build the capacity of five local sex worker groups in five major cities of Bangladesh to address human rights violations and promote respect for sex workers. Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2017 |
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)Bangladesh Local, National English HARC represents over 5,000 women sex workers mainly in the capital city Dhaka. The group works to improve sex workers’ health by conducting peer outreach and condom distribution, building sex workers’ knowledge on HIV and STIs and by providing referrals to services. The group builds sex workers’ skills in human rights advocacy and collaborates with the National Human Rights Commission and other allies to lobby for changes in laws and policies that negatively impact on sex workers’ lives. They were featured for their COVID-19 response on Australian TV: https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-special-bangladeshs-sex-workers/av-59050940 Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)
HIV/AIDS Research and Welfare Centre (HARC)Bangladesh Local, National English HARC represents over 5,000 women sex workers mainly in the capital city Dhaka. The group works to improve sex workers’ health by conducting peer outreach and condom distribution, building sex workers’ knowledge on HIV and STIs and by providing referrals to services. The group builds sex workers’ skills in human rights advocacy and collaborates with the National Human Rights Commission and other allies to lobby for changes in laws and policies that negatively impact on sex workers’ lives. Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2021 |
Hoa Co May CBO
Hoa Co May CBOVietnam local English Hoa Co May Group works to improve the quality of life of sex workers and people living with HIV+ in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With this first grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to cover some of its core costs and support sex workers’ access to screening for sexually transmitted infections and treatment as well as access to health insurance.
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Vietnam | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Hong Kong Transgender Migrant Service Workers Network (HKTGMSWN)
Hong Kong Transgender Migrant Service Workers Network (HKTGMSWN)Hong Kong Local English This emerging group in Hong Kong reaches out to migrant transgender sex workers with HIV and STI prevention information, legal support, and human rights capacity-building support, provided by peer educators. The group combats stigma and discrimination faced by transgender sex workers through public awareness campaigns. The ‘Don’t Cut my Hair Campaign’ addresses the humiliation faced by trans women in prisons in Hong Kong who are ordinarily placed in the men’s department and forced to cut their hair short.
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Hong Kong | Asia/Pacific | 2013 |
Indonesian Sex Workers’ Organization / Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (OPSI)
Indonesian Sex Workers’ Organization / Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (OPSI)Indonesia Local, National English With a presence in 19 provinces in Indonesia, this sex worker-led network provides HIV and other health services to sex workers through drop-in centres, outreach, and referrals. OPSI builds partnerships with government, service providers and HIV organisations to improve sex workers’ access to HIV and STI prevention, treatment and care services. With this grant, OPSI plans to study the impact on sex workers of brothel closures in six major Indonesian cities, and the connection between human rights violations and HIV/STI vulnerability. OPSI will use the results of this research in its advocacy work. Learn more
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Indonesia | Asia/Pacific | 2017 |
Indonesian Sex Workers’ Organization / Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (OPSI)
Indonesian Sex Workers’ Organization / Organisasi Perubahan Sosial Indonesia (OPSI)Indonesia Local, National English This national network with members in 20 provinces of Indonesia works to uphold sex workers’ human rights. OPSI increases sex workers’ awareness of their human rights through trainings and advocates for better laws and the meaningful involvement of sex workers in processes and decisions that affect them. Learn more
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Indonesia | Asia/Pacific | 2020 |
Jagriti Mahila Mahasangha (JMM)
Jagriti Mahila Mahasangha (JMM)Nepal Local, Subnational, National English This network unites 27 community-based organisations of women sex workers in 22 districts of Nepal. JMMS raises awareness among sex workers about HIV and works to end violence against sex workers perpetrated by police, institutions, clients and intimate partners. The network provides legal counselling to sex workers and supports them with filing complaints with the police. At the national level, JMMS engages in CEDAW reporting processes and advocates against laws and policies that discriminate against sex workers and criminalise them.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2018 |
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha
Mahila Sahayogi SamuhaNepal local English Mahila Sahayogi Samuha was set up in 2008 to address the specific needs of female sex workers in the East of Nepal. The organisation now has over 500 members and works to strengthen sex workers’ knowledge of their human rights to end stigma and violence through advocacy, alliances and community mobilisation. Learn more
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha (MSS)
Mahila Sahayogi Samuha (MSS)Nepal Local English This local self-led organisation in the east of the country was set up in 2008 to address the specific needs of female sex workers. The group includes sex workers living with HIV and people who use drugs and the majority of its more than 300 members are illiterate. MSS works to build sex workers’ understanding of human rights. The group is connected to other sex worker groups and allies and reaches out to the local government to end stigma and violence against sex workers and increase the recognition of sex work as work among service providers and government.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |
Minas Gerais Prostitute’s Association (APROSMIG)
Minas Gerais Prostitute’s Association (APROSMIG)Brazil Local English This group reaches over 2000 women sex workers in the Brazilian state of Minais Gerais through language classes, condom distribution, HIV awareness messages, seminars, and public demonstrations to bring attention to the citizenship and rights of sex workers. This group organises special meetings for new sex workers as well as for older (50 plus) sex workers. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will contribute to strengthening the organisational capacities through regular meetings and trainings for its staff and members.
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Brazil | Latin America | 2013 |
Mujeres Del Sur
Mujeres Del SurPeru Local Spanish This group, based in Arequipa, is led by sex workers who are women. Mujeres del Sur challenges police violence through awareness-raising among local communities and leaders, and works to combat police violence through strategic litigation. The organisation advocates for the recognition and protection of the labour rights of sex workers.
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Peru | Latin America | 2012 |
Nijgadh Mahila Samuha (NMS)
Nijgadh Mahila Samuha (NMS)Nepal local English This sex worker-led organisation formed in 2009 works locally in Nepal to strengthen the capacity of female sex workers through advocacy, leadership and networking ultimately strengthening the feminist movement as a whole.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)El Salvador Local Spanish This group was created in 2004 by sex workers to confront and prevent the discrimination, abuse and violence experienced daily by sex workers at work, within their families, and in society in general by educating the general public about sex workers’ rights. The group reaches women sex workers working on the street and in parks with HIV prevention information and peer support. The Red Umbrella Fund grant will contribute to a field study of the needs of sex workers in 15 municipalities.
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El Salvador | Latin America | 2013 |
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)El Salvador Local, National Spanish This national sex worker organisation aims to end the discrimination, abuse and violence experienced daily by sex workers at work, within their families, and in society in general. The group provides peer support and information to women sex workers working on the street and in parks, with particular attention to sex workers living with HIV, young sex workers, mothers, and elderly sex workers. OTS reaches out to media and builds partnerships with feminist organisations and others to more effectively influence policy makers at local and national levels to improve laws and practices to that protect the human rights of sex workers.
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El Salvador | Latin America | 2016 |
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)
Organización de Trabajadoras del Sexo (OTS)El Salvador Local, National Spanish This national sex worker organisation in El Salvador aims to end the discrimination, abuse and violence experienced daily by sex workers at work, within their families and in society in general. The group provides peer support and information to women sex workers working on the street and in parks, with particular attention to sex workers living with HIV, young sex workers, mothers and elderly sex workers. OTS reaches out to media and builds partnerships with feminist organisations to more effectively influence policymakers, and improve laws and practices in order to protect the human rights of sex workers.
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El Salvador | Latin America | 2018 |
Organización de Trabajadoras Nocturnas Bolivia (OTN-B)
Organización de Trabajadoras Nocturnas Bolivia (OTN-B)Bolivia National Spanish With over 17,000 members across the nine departments of Bolivia, this sex worker-led organisation works to end stigma and discrimination against sex workers. Created in 2000, this group unites diverse sex workers of all genders and sexual orientations and includes indigenous sex workers. With this grant, OTN-B will set up a telephone hotline to support sex workers facing violence. The group will organise departmental and national convenings of sex workers to strengthen community engagement and build advocacy capacity in support of a new law to regulate sex work in Bolivia.
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Bolivia | Latin America | 2019 |
Organización Nacional de Activistas por la Emancipacion de la Mujer (ONAEM)
Organización Nacional de Activistas por la Emancipacion de la Mujer (ONAEM)Bolivia Subnational, National Spanish This national sex worker-led group builds the sex workers’ movement in Bolivia by providing capacity building opportunities for its members. ONAEM builds alliances with the related movements, including the feminist and LGBTQI+ movements in the country, to more effectively promote sex workers’ rights. By educating public health service providers about sex work and human rights, ONAEM contributes to improving the quality of services and reducing the level of stigma and discrimination experienced by sex workers. ONAEM coordinates its work at the regional level through the regional sex workers network RedTraSex. Learn more
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Bolivia | Latin America | 2017 |
Pacific Rainbow Advocacy Network (PRAN)
Pacific Rainbow Advocacy Network (PRAN)Fiji Local English This sex workers’ organisation operates in Lautoka, a popular tourist destination in western Fiji. Committed to advocating for the rights of all sex workers, the group organises safe space meetings and mobilises sex workers using peer education. PRAN builds relationships with NGOs, government ministries and UN agencies to campaign for legal and policy reform.
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Fiji | Asia/Pacific | 2012 |
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.
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Malaysia | Asia/Pacific | 2013 |
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
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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
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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)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
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Regional Network - Ecuador based | Latin America | 2022 |
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
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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
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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
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Argentina | Latin America | 2021 |
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.
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Nepal | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |
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
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Australia | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Sex Workers Network Bangladesh (SWNOB)
Sex Workers Network Bangladesh (SWNOB)Bangladesh Local English This network has 29 member organisations, representing sex workers of all genders from all over Bangladesh. The group aims to strengthen its member organisations through building their leadership capacities, and also works with community leaders and the media to raise awareness about the human rights of sex workers. Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2012 |
Sex Workers Network Bangladesh (SWNOB)
Sex Workers Network Bangladesh (SWNOB)Bangladesh Local, Subnational, National English This national network unites 29 member organisations representing sex workers of all genders and different localities in Bangladesh. The group aims to strengthen its member organisations by building their leadership capacities. SWNOB works with community leaders and the media to raise awareness about the human rights of sex workers, and takes action against brothel evictions and violence from law enforcement institutions. SWNOB advocates at the national level for the inclusion of sex workers in the country’s social security strategy Learn more
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Bangladesh | Asia/Pacific | 2018 |
Sramajibi Mahila Sangha (SMS)
Sramajibi Mahila Sangha (SMS)India Local, National English This group in West Bengal advocates for the rights of sex workers at local and national levels in India. SMS has been actively opposing a harmful new anti-trafficking bill. The group interacts with government departments to ensure access to social entitlements for sex workers and to secure their participation in advisory and decision-making bodies that address issues relevant to them and their families. The group runs 20 Self-Regulatory Boards, an effective community-led anti-trafficking mechanism that has been endorsed by the Supreme Court of India
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India | Asia/Pacific | 2018 |
Sramajibi Mahila Sangha (SMS)
Sramajibi Mahila Sangha (SMS)India local English This group in West Bengal advocates for the rights of sex workers at local and national levels in India. Sramajibi Mahila Sangha also received a grant from Red Umbrella Fund in 2018 and was very active in opposing a harmful new anti-trafficking bill. With this grant, the organisation aims to continue its advocacy and strengthen and expand its self-regulatory boards which play a crucial role in addressing trafficking in sex work.
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India | Asia/Pacific | 2022 |
Strong Ladies
Strong LadiesVietnam Local English This organisation of young trans women sex workers was established in 2013 as a local self-help group. Strong Ladies is the only organisation formed by and for trans women sex workers in Ho Chi Minh City. The group provides HIV prevention information and services to sex workers and collaborates with the Vietnam Network of Sex Workers (VNSW) to promote the human rights of sex workers. The group is expanding their health interventions for transgender sex workers and will provide consultation on sexual health via live-streams. Learn more
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Vietnam | Asia/Pacific | 2019 |