This fact sheet reviews data from 2017-2018 at regional and global levels to evaluate levels of funding available to LGBTI sex worker communities. The document is available in English, Spanish, and French.
Defining Sex Worker Rights Funding (Sex Work Donor Collaborative) This document was created and approved by the collaborative to guide other funders in considering what kind of rights-based funding actually advances rights for sex workers.
The Hack List: Hustler Lessons From Community Grantmaking By and For Sex Workers (Red Umbrella Fund, Sex Worker Giving Circle at Third Wave Fund, UHAI-EASHRI) This checklist was created to share some hacks (or creative work-arounds) that support funders to be more responsive to grassroots grantee experiences and needs.
Sex Work and Trafficking: A Donor–Activist Dialogue on Rights and Funding (CREA, NSWP, OSI) This report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and recommendations made at a two-day dialogue organized by CREA, NSWP, and OSI held on December 11-12, 2008, in Tarrytown, New York. This dialogue was the starting point of the first sex work donor collaborative that resulted in the creation of the Red Umbrella Fund and set the wheels in motion for the existence of the current iteration of the SWDC.
Foundation Funding For Sex Workers, 2011-2016 (Human Rights Funders Network) A high-level overview of the state of global funding for sex workers’ rights over the span of four years.
Shifting the (funding) power to sex workers – my years at Mama Cash (Alliance) The former Executive Director of Mama Cash, the oldest international women's fund in the world, reflects on the organization’s involvement in resourcing sex workers to determine their own priorities and engage in human rights advocacy.
Human Rights, Decriminalization and Anti-Trafficking
Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) The Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP) exists to uphold the voice of sex workers globally and connect regional networks advocating for the rights of female, male, and transgender sex workers.
Ten Reasons to Decriminalize Sex Work (Open Society Foundations) This document provides ten reasons why decriminalizing sex work is the best policy for promoting health and human rights of sex workers, their families, and communities.
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (openDemocracy) Beyond Trafficking and Slavery is launching a new debate series geared to allow all those working on trafficking, modern slavery, and forced labour to think through questions of principle, strategy, and tactic together.
Amnesty International Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect and Fulfil the Human Rights of Sex Workers (Amnesty International) This policy has been developed in recognition of the high rates of human rights abuses experienced globally by individuals who engage in sex work; a term that Amnesty International uses only in regard to consensual exchanges between adults. It identifies the most prominent barriers to the realization of sex workers’ human rights and underlines states’ obligations to address them.
Anti-Trafficking Review - Special Sex Work Issue (Anti-Trafficking Review) This Special Issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review highlights some of the current achievements of – and challenges faced by – the global sex worker rights movement.
HIV and sex workers (The Lancet) This Series of seven papers aims to investigate the complex issues faced by sex workers worldwide, and calls for the decriminilisation of sex work, in the global effort to tackle the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Guidance Note on Services for sex workers - 2014 (UNAIDS) This Guidance Note is part of the resource kit for high-impact programming that provides simple, concise and practical guidance on key areas of the AIDS response.
HIV Philanthropy for Sex Workers (Funders Concerned About AIDS) This resource provides an analysis of philanthropy disbursed for HIV-related efforts in 2017 that addressed the needs and rights of sex workers.
