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My 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…
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Why 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…
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Are 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…
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Deciding for all or all deciding? Exploring Participatory Grantmaking
‘Innovation and iteration’ was the key theme of the January the International Human Rights Funders Group (IHRFG) conference in San…
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Ohotu means Love
How the sex workers’ movement in Nigeria is “growing and showing” despite violence The Nigerian Criminal Code penalises sex work…
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SCOT-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…
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Exploring 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…
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OTS: 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…
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Sisonke 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…
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“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…
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Sex 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…
Read MoreNothing about us, without us: reversing the power dynamics of philanthropy
Crossposted from OpenDemocracy If money is power, then control over money has to be democratized. What if grants to social…
Read MoreTurkish 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)…
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Sex 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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Sex workers defend UN recommendations
In 2012, as the result of lengthy and consultative processes, a number of UN agencies published two reports *) that…
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Interview with Pontso Mafethe
Interview from November 2012 with Pontso Mafethe, Comic Relief (UK) about her experience serving on the International Steering Committee of…
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Interview with Anne Gathumbi, member of the International Steering Committee
Anne Gathumbi, Programme Manager at the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa, Kenya, outlines why she is proud to be…
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