Report: The Impact of Open Society Foundation’s Funding Withdrawal on the Sex Worker Rights Movement, and Recommendations for a Path Forward (2023)

Open Society Foundations’ (OSF) was one of the most important funders of sex worker rights movements in the world and was a founding member of SWDC. In the early 2020s, OSF closed its Public Health Program, including its global giving to sex worker rights movements. This report was commissioned to assess the funding landscape for sex worker rights, the impact OSF’s withdrawal is having on sex worker rights organizations and movements, and to learn how sex worker-led organizations are finding possible ways forward.

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