Грантополучатели-партнеры

«Женщины против всех форм дискриминации» (WAAD)

Зимбабве

национальный

Английский

Созданная в 2015 году, организация «Женщины против всех форм дискриминации» — это национальная организация, членами которой являются физические лица. У нее есть отделения во всех десяти провинциях Зимбабве. На средства этого и других грантов организация продолжит искать подход к заинтересованным субъектам в стране, раздавать прокладки и отмечать Международный женский день и памятные даты международного движения секс-работников.

«Махила Сахаойги Самуха»

Непал

местный

Английский

«Махила Сахаойги Самуха» была создана в 2008 с целью откликнуться на запросы секс-работниц в восточной части Непала. На данный момент организация насчитывает свыше 500 членов, занимается развитием знаний секс-работников о правах человека и стремится положить конец стигме и насилию при помощи защиты интересов, создания альянсов и мобилизации сообщества.

Africa Sex Worker Alliance

Kenya

international

English

This sex worker-led African regional network was created in 2009 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Sex Worker Alliance (ASWA) has sex worker-led organisations as members in 35 African countries. The network amplifies the voices of their sex worker members and advocates for the health and human rights of the diverse community of sex workers working and living in Africa. ASWA intends to use its grant to continue its advocacy in the region and continue to strengthen itself as a network.

Alianza Por El Trabajo Sexual

El Salvador

local

Spanish

Alianza por el trabajo sexual defines its role in El Salvador as «working actively in the action for the defense of the rights of women sex workers, through the unification of the sector.» With this first grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to organise a variety of events, trainings, meetings and campaigns in line with this work. In the country, sex work is technically legal but municipal authorities create administrative offences making sex work more isolated and dangerous.

AMMAR Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de la República Argentina

Argentina

national

Spanish

AMMAR’s mission is to defend the human, social and labour rights of sex workers in Argentina. With a national reach of around 10,000 sex workers, the organisation is present in 14 provinces of the country through 18 branches in different locations all of which are run by sex workers. With this third grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to provide food, medication, legal services and to implement workshops and visibility activities during the women’s march and cover some of its core costs.

Anonymous

ANON

Anonymous

ANON

Anonymous

ANON

Asociación Civil TS «Rosas Mujeres de Lucha»

Peru

national

Spanish

Selling sex is legal in Peru but only by following regulations — mandatory health checks, registration and working in a licensed brothel. Street walking is illegal. Most sex workers work illegally. In this context, Asociación Civil TS Rosas Mujeres de Lucha works to defend sex workers’ human rights and aims to use its first grant from Red Umbrella Fund to open a safer space for sex workers to meet without risking violence.

Asociación Colectivo Flor de Azalea

Ecuador

local

Spanish

The Flor de Azalea Collective was created in 2002 from sex workers in Ecuador who felt the need to defend their human rights, raise their self-esteem, learn about their rights, protect themselves from sexually transmitted infections and empower themselves. In a context marked by violence from many actors including the mafia, the organisation secured their first grant from Red Umbrella Fund to organise several workshops, provide alimentation packages, carry out commuincation campaigns and cover some of their core costs.

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.

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.

Association for Support of Marginalized Workers STAR-STAR

Macedonia

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.

Coletivo Clã das Lobas

Brazil

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.

Community-based organization G3VN

Vietnam

local

English

The sex worker-led organisation G3VN works with transgender sex workers to advance their well-being and defend their rights, including their right to health. Created in 2011, G3VN implements a range of people-centered, inclusive, and sustainable strategies, including knowledge building, outreach and trainings for healthcare workers.

EntrePutxs

Puerto Rico

local

Spanish

EntrePutxs works to create alternative spaces and practices for sex workers where their wants and needs are prioritised. The organisation seeks to continue creating spaces where sex workers can be in community, collaborate, facilitate workshops & healing circles, coordinate events, panels and give not only platform but also resources to sex workers. With this grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation intends to create a podcast, a cabaret and a support fund for sex workers.

European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA, former ICRSE)

Regional Network - Netherlands based

international

English

The European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA)’s membership comprises more than 100 organisations spread across the WHO Europe region. With their actions and approach inspired by their membership, ESWA works to build a strong, vibrant and sustainable network that mobilises national, regional and international advocacy activity that moves us towards long-term, systemic change.

Feminist Action Development Ambition (FADA)

Rwanda

national

English

Feminist Action Development Ambition (FADA) was founded in 2015 by Sex Workers and Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Queer individuals to serve their communities in Rwanda facing discrimination and Human Rights abuses. With this grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation will continue its advocacy and celebrate International Sex Workers’ Day and World AIDS Day among others.

Hoa Co May CBO

Vietnam

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.

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.

Parapli Rouz

Mauritius

local, national

English

Parapli Rouz builds sex workers? knowledge and skills on human rights and advocacy with the aim to have sex work recognised as work in Mauritius. The organisation also provides legal support to sex workers to protect their right to carry condoms and to be able to maintain custody of their children; and offers peer education and HIV testing among sex workers across the island with their outreach caravan.

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.

Right Side Human Rights Defender NGO

Armenia

national

English

Right Side is a community based, democratic, human rights defender NGO, founded in January 2016 by transgender sex worker activists in Armenia. It is the first and only NGO run by and for trans people and sex workers in Armenia and in the South Caucasus. The organisation’s members are representatives of the sex worker community, including trans, cis and LGBQI sex workers. With their second grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to organise workshops, roundtables, cover some of their core costs and provide small grants to sex worker groups in the country.

SafeSpace London

Canada

local

English

SafeSpace is a drop-in centre and community collective operated for, by and with sex workers (past and present), allies, and women and gender-nonconforming individuals in London, Canada. Through its work, SafeSpace supports sex workers by fostering relationships of trust, transparency, and empowerment, and mitigating the impacts of criminalisation, discrimination, violence and stigma in the lives of sex workers. The group provides harm reduction supplies, hygiene products, educational resources and peer support.

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.

Sex Worker Advocates Coalition (SWAC)

United States

local

English

The Sex Worker Advocates Coalition (SWAC) was formed in October 2016 as a small working group discussing the status of sex workers’ rights in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. SWAC believes that sex work is work and that people in the sex trades are worthy of full economic, political and social empowerment, and humanity. This is the first time the organisation receives a grant from Red Umbrella Fund. The funding will be used entirely for the sex work decriminalisation campaign in Washington D.C.

Sex Workers Intersectional Peer Education (SWIPE)

Italy

national

English

SWIPE was born in October 2020 to fill the need for an association that could work on a national level, for all sex workers and that could act as a public face at a country level. SWIPE (Sex worker Intersectional Peer Education) is a sex workers and allies association, created to support Italian sex workers’ rights, promote an inclusive culture and fight stigma, whorephobia and whorearchy. With this first grant from Red Umbrella Fund, the organisation aims to organise workshops, a podcast, manage its website and social media platforms and continue strengthening its structures.

Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network (SWAN)

Regional Network - Hungary based

local, national, international

English

Working in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, SWAN was initiated with a goal to unite sex workers’ projects across the region, which in 2006 were isolated, invisible and with little influence, into one regional platform which mobilises, strengthens and amplifies the voices of sex workers. SWAN currently unites 27 member organisations from 20 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. SWAN has been supported by Red Umbrella Fund since 2013 and aims with this grant to continue building the movement in the region, develop information and learning resources, organise Management Committee meetings and cover some of its core costs.

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.

Talayan

Morocco

national

English

Talayan’s mission is to support the individual agency and collective empowerment of sex workers in Morocco, and to fight against all forms of criminalisation, violence and discrimination impacting sex workers and their communities. Talayan is the first organisation supported by Red Umbrella Fund in the Middle East and North Africa region!

Tikondane CBO

Malawi

local, subnational

English

Selling sex is legal in Malawi. However, there is a law against «any common prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in any public place» and vagrancy laws used against sex workers. In its work, Tikondane aims to support female sex workers by increasing access to quality healthcare, social and legal support, information and sustainable systems of livelihood. With this grant, Tikondane aims to organise sensitisation activities and develop information, education and communication materials for the community.

Together in Service (SWOPLA)

United States

local

English

SWOPLA (Sex Worker Outreach Project Los Angeles) is a grassroots non-profit organisation that is led, organised and supported by and for sex workers. SWOPLA’s vision is to usher in the reality where all sex workers? labor and body are valued and respected. Amongst other important work, SWOPLA maintains a resource list on its website and cultivates relationships with service providers to provide referrals useful to sex workers in the Los Angeles area of the United States of America.