On 29 January, AWARE submitted its fourth annual set of recommendations for the national budget through the public consultation portal REACH. This year we question some of the fundamental approaches that underlie budget making and call for the budget process to be more transparent and inclusive, so ...
By Vivienne Wee And Sarah Hill
Eradicating poverty remains at the core of the United Nations (UN) development agenda. Indeed, International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed by the UN each year on Oct 17. In Singapore, however, poverty often appears to be a peripheral issue.
Singa...
19 August, 2013
AWARE is heartened by the policy shifts outlined by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the National Day Rally speech 2013. We applaud the government’s commitment to invest in every Singaporean to reach their full potential, through much needed reforms in housing, education, and h...
A Roundtable Dialogue on the housing challenges faced by unmarried people in Singapore was held at the AWARE Centre on 29 July.
Entitled ‘Housing Singaporeans – Should unmarried people be lesser citizens?’, the roundtable began with a thought-provoking presentation by the Singles Sub-commit...
by Callan Tham
Following AWARE’s article with three fathers who shared their views on paternity leave in Singapore – “What fathers say on Father’s Day”, published in The Online Citizen on 16 June 2013 – Callan Tham, another father, wrote to AWARE to add his opinion about the current p...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Chan Kin Kok with Vivienne Wee and Ranjana Raghunathan
To mark Father’s Day, AWARE invited three fathers to give their views of the newly introduced paternity leave and conversion of one week of maternity leave to shared parental leave. Th...
When I became a mother five years ago, I experienced acutely what I had known as a sociologist — structural conditions matter.
In the first week after our baby was born, my husband and I were equally pathetic in our cluelessness; the learning curve was steep and we tried and failed together. We...
Date: Monday, July 29 (updated)
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: AWARE Centre
Speakers: AWARE's Singles Sub-committee - Chew I-Jin, Ailin Mao, Chu Hoi Yee, Aziza Sheerin, Chang Rui Shan and Raudah Abdul Rashid
Register for this event here.
The Singles Sub-committee of the Association ...
By Teo You Yenn
The expectations, presumptions, and institutionalised norms for mothers to be special and unique are irrational, unjust and harmful to society.
Mothers are not special.
They do not have superhuman powers to create more hours in a day. They cannot free themselves of societal cons...
