OpenDemocracy has a wide range of argicles and reports on Sex Work within its Beyond Trafficking and Slavery Channel
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We have organised our growing library of publications and tools to better serve the sex worker-led movement, funders, and allies. We have highlighted key topics that intersect with our work including participatory grantmaking, donor finders, and other work contributed from regional networks, sex worker funders, and other organisations that support sex worker rights.
A personal reflection by African feminist Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah.
ViewIn 2017, Red Umbrella Fund commissioned research by Wendelijn Vollbehr on how sex worker-led organisations are dealing with the issue of human trafficking. She interviewed members of 13 organisations in 13 different countries. “The interviews addressed how the respondents defined and approached the topic of human trafficking, how they experienced anti-trafficking policies and practices, and if and how their organisations dealt with trafficking situations.”
ViewAn e-book with a collection of articles focusing on why anti-trafficking advocates should not hesitate supporting sex workers’ rights.
This volume focuses upon three main questions:
– Why are so many anti-trafficking organisations reluctant to take a clear position on the status of sex work?
– What are the main effects of fence-sitting upon politics and policy?
– What would encourage anti-traffickers to get off the fence and directly support sex workers’ rights?
“The Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editorial team is not on the fence. We strongly favour and support sex workers’ rights.”
ViewRed Umbrella Fund Coordinator Paul-Gilbert Colletaz writes, ” Sex workers have suffered under the pandemic because most are excluded from both private and public support. Donors can change that.”
ViewCora Colt, co-founder of Lysistrata Mutual Care Collective & Fund, writes, “Sex workers and other marginalised communities are in desperate need of rights and direct cash assistance, no strings attached. Everything else is a distraction”
ViewSupporting sex workers’ rights shouldn’t feel like a reach for the drug reform movement. Both exist to reduce the harm wrought by criminalisation
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