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About Us
Red Umbrella Fund is the first and only global fund dedicated to supporting the rights of sex workers.
It was established in 2012 to respond to the lack of funding available for sex workers’ rights organising. In line with its core values of autonomy and ownership, Red Umbrella Fund is a sex worker-led, participatory fund.

International Sex Workers’ Day 2021 – CEDAW Statement
To the CEDAW Committee: Sex work is work. It is not trafficking. On 02 June, International Sex Workers’ Day, the…
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Time to Turn Up the Volume
by Nadia van der Linde Please cite this article as: N van der Linde, ‘Time to Turn Up the Volume’, Anti-Trafficking Review, Anti-Trafficking…
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Not Victims
I come from quite a conservative religious background. I remember, as a young girl, feeling upset and sad when walking…
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Mind the Gap
What we learned about how funders can be moved in the right direction. As human rights and social justice funders,…
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…
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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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