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Where to find @RedUmbrellaFund at AWID Forum 2024☂️☂️☂️☂️

UNiTE for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence! This year’s theme, “Towards Beijing +30,” highlights progress made & urgent work ahead. Armed conflict, inequality, & displacement intensify risks, esp. for migrants & refugees.

Our two fiery delegates to the the AWID Conference have landed in Bangkok and are having fun. They will do a presentation for us at the conference. facebook.com/share/p/17p3eq…

Sex workers in Belgium are now entitled to health insurance, pensions, sick days, maternity leave, safety protections and formal employment contracts under a new law. This is the first law of its kind in the world.

Belgium grants sex workers maternity pay, pensions under historic new law: ‘An incredible step forward’ trib.al/vJCurF9

In Belgium, sex workers can now sign formal employment contracts. That grants them access to the same benefits that other Belgian workers can access — paid vacation, health insurance, maternity leave, Social Security, unemployment, etc. — plus some specialized protections...

We are in the process of setting up all that we need to assail the constitutionality of the Philippine law that makes sex work criminal on the ground that it violates our human rights. Wish us luck.

We have met with GAATW to discuss possibilities of linking our efforts together. The meeting ended on a very positive note.

Sex Workers Thanks for sharing your contact details! Grateful for the chance to connect ✨

We were invited to a dialogue with some European ministers who are here in the Philippines for a study tour. In a dialogue, you are supposed to listen to each other's opinion with respect whether you agree or not. Unfortunately, a Swedish minister in the group didn't think so.

Decriminalizing sex work is against human rights claimed this Swedish minister in reaction to our presentation where we spoke of the legal challenge we are mounting to have the Supreme Court declare the law unconstutional on human rights grounds.

The Swedish minister came after the New Zealand minister gave the group an update on the NZPC. We mentioned in our presentation that we are looking at the New Zealand way as our model. This Swedish minister could not even give due respect to another minister of equal rank.

Asked on what we thought of this Swedish minister's mental constipation, we could only say every country has got their Trumps. Just don't they hold public office. Trust us. We had Duterte. The Belgians are really lucky. They did not have a trump clone for a Chief of State.

Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine is not over yet.   But Canada will be there, standing with Ukraine, until it is.

“The bill would remove criminal penalties for adults engaged in consensual paid sex, and remove arrest and conviction records for prostitutes. It would also create a sex workers’ bill of rights.” wgntv.com/news/illinois/…

No tears, no words… Only a small hand wiping the forehead of absence. A child is shrouded, and another bids farewell, And in Gaza, children grow amidst the silence of loss and the pains of absence.