List of sex worker organizations
This is a list of sex worker organizations which advocate for sex workers' rights.
Almost all sex worker organizations around the world favour the decriminalization of sex work, and have that goal as a primary objective. These organizations also encourage active involvement from sex workers to support advocacy, fundraising, and public education efforts.
In locations where sex work is not criminalized, sex worker movements advocate for access to other kinds of rights such as unemployment, changes in zoning, and working to eliminate the social stigma attached to sexual labor.
International
| Name and abbreviation | Founded | Region served | Notes |
| African Sex Workers Alliance | 2009 | Africa | Founded in Johannesburg, South Africa; based in Nairobi, Kenya. |
| 1994 | Asia | Based in Bangkok, Thailand. | |
| Caribbean Sex Workers Coalition | Caribbean | Based in Berbice, Guyana. | |
| Caribbean Vulnerable Communities | 2005 | Caribbean | Based in Kingston, Jamaica. |
| East Africa Sex Workers Alliance | 2018 | East Africa | Coalition of sex workers organizations, networks, and groups in East Africa. Based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
| Global Network of Sex Work Projects | 1990 | World | Based in Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| European Sex Workers' Rights Alliance | 1985 | Europe Central Asia | Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Previously known as the International Committee for Prostitutes' Rights and the International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe. Published the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights at its 1985 founding. |
| 2014 | Latin America | Based in Machala, Ecuador. | |
| 2012 | World | Amsterdam-based fund making grants to sex workers' rights groups worldwide. | |
| 1995 | World | Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World based in Chicago, United States. | |
| 2006 | Eurasia | ||
| TAMPEP | 1993 | Europe | Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Hosted from Helsinki, Finland. |
Supportive
These international organizations are not primarily led by sex workers, nor do their activities primarily concern sex work, but nonetheless, they have dedicated a significant portion of their efforts to advocating for sex workers' rights, including decriminalization. Literature describes such supportive organizations as "allies".| Name and abbreviation | Support since | Region served | Notes |
| Amnesty International | 2015 | World | London-based human rights organisation that has advocated for decriminalisation of consensual sex work since 2015. |
| Commissioner for Human Rights | 2024 | Europe | Institution of the Council of Europe, stated in a 2024 Human Rights Comment that sex work should be decriminalised. |
| Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women | 1994 | World | Bangkok-based anti-trafficking coalition, has distinguished between sex work and trafficking "since its inception". |
| Human Rights Watch | 2014 | World | New York City-based human rights organisation that has advocated for decriminalisation of voluntary sex work since at least 2014. |
| ILGA World | 2019 | World | Geneva-based international coalition of over 1,500 LGBTI organisations, called for the decriminalisation of sex work in 2019. |
| International Commission of Jurists | 2023 | World | Geneva-based international human rights NGO of jurists. Principle 17 of The 8 March Principles stipulated decriminalising sex work. |
| La Strada International | 1995 | Europe | Amsterdam-based anti-trafficking organisation, has decriminalisation as a "strategic focus area". |
| The Lancet | 2014 | World | Global medical journal, at least since its 2014 series "HIV and sex workers". |
| UNAIDS | 2012 | World | UN program to counter the HIV/AIDS pandemic, per the 2012 new WHO guidelines. |
| United Nations Population Fund | 2012 | World | UN agency for reproductive and maternal health, per the 2012 new WHO guidelines. |
| UN Working Group on the issue of Discrimination Against Women in Law and in Practice (WGDAW) | 2016 | World | Women's rights experts at the Human Rights Council, recommended decriminalising sex work in April 2016 report. |
| World Health Organization | 2012 | World | UN agency for international public health, per the 2012 new WHO guidelines. |
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