Mama Cash's online exhibit 'Out from Under' showcases issues, voices, stories, and perspectives from the global sex workers’ human rights movement.
Sex workers are severely stigmatised as workers and human beings. Since the early 1970s, determined and courageous sex workers have been collectively organising in spite of the sometimes extreme consequences they face for speaking out.
Why are sex workers' rights a priority for Mama Cash?
Our grantees are self-organised groups and networks of sex workers globally.
We currently prioritise sex worker groups and networks working on these issues:
- sex worker labour rights;
- ending violence against sex workers such as police brutality and extortion;
- securing basic health and other social services, including contraception and HIV/AIDS testing and treatment;
- access to social security and other work-related entitlements;
- reducing the stigmatisation that leads to violence and discrimination; and
- pushing to make feminist and women's rights more inclusive of the voices and agendas of sex workers.