(WONETHA)

ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE:

WHO WE ARE :

Women’s Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA) is an independent, non-partisan, non-governmental human rights advocacy organization led and founded by sex workers in 2008. WONETHA was founded to address the rampant discrimination in health care systems, social stigma and as well as advocate against punitive and restrictive legislation and policies that encourage violations of sex workers rights.
We use health as a major entry point to advocate for rights of sex workers. That is- we provide health services to sex workers, push for programming that recognizes sex workers health needs, promote and protect rights of sex workers through access to primary justice, documentation of violations, awareness, building the capacity of sex workers, research and knowledge management. We work with partners to push for sex workers issues at the regional and international advocacy spaces.

Download a documentation of GBV CASES_2021

Download a documemtation of STRATEGIC PLAN 2022-2026

Download a documemtation of Final WONETHA Uganda Research Report - July 2020

Download 2024- WONETHA collage.pptx

Download WONETHA- POSITION PAPER - OCT 2024.pdf

Download PRESS RELEASE.pdf

3 MARCH-PRESS STATEMENT-ISWRD.pdf

VISION:

An Empowered Sex worker in a Society that respects and supports Sex Workers Rights in Uganda.

MISSION:

To promote the holistic wellbeing of adult female sex workers in Uganda through advocacy, research, empowerment and access to health and justice.

WONETHA Institutional Objectives:

To increase access and utilization of health services by sex workers
To conduct research to inform advocacy in order to influence change in policies, laws and practices to promote rights of sex workers
To promote access to justice in cases of violations of rights of sex workers in Uganda
To empower individual sex workers and groups to claim for their rights
To work with like-minded and strategic partners at the national and international level to promote the rights of sex workers
To strengthen the institutional capacity of WONETHA and its members to deliver on its mandate

WONETHA PROGRAMMES:

HEALTH OUTREACH AND SUPPORT PROGRAMME
ADVOCACY AND PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAMME
NETWORKS AND PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME
ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME
ADULT LITERACY AND MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME
THE ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN PROGRAMME
COOMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMME
INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
PEER EDUCATORS PROGRAMME