This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 12 May 2023.
News of last Friday’s sentencing of J, the leader of an abhorrent sexual violence ring involving at least six perpetrators and four survivors, dredged up the revulsion I felt when I first read about the case in 2022...
Written by Victoria Jagger, intern, AWARE
On Friday, 14 April, AWARE hosted a conversation with sexual assault survivor and advocate Rowena Chiu, during her two-week visit to Singapore. A small group of AWARE staff, members and friends were invited to hear Chiu recount her journey, from exper...
This letter was originally published in TODAY on 2 April 2023.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s response to Aware’s recommendations on the upcoming workplace fairness legislation bears further review.
Aware made our recommendations after the Tripartite Committee on Workplace Fairness re...
AWARE welcomes the Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill that was tabled in Parliament last Monday. The announcement is timely, as the recent Sunlight AfA poll on online harms found that 31% of respondents have experienced and/or witnessed gender-based online harms in Singapore.
We are gl...
Section 424 of Singapore’s Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) was introduced with the intent of ensuring that serious crimes are reported to the police and perpetrators taken to task. It states in summary that every person aware of the commission of, or the intention of any other person to commit, ...
Written by Varsha Sivaram
Trigger warning: This recap includes discussion of sexual assault and discrimination against LGBTQ people.
On 28 July 2022, around 50 people attended the virtual discussion “Queer Violence, Queer Silence: LGBTQ persons’ experience of sexual assault”.
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On 10 August 2022, AWARE made a submission to the Ministry of Communication and Information’s Public Consultation on Enhancing Online Safety For Users in Singapore. Our submission covered a wide range of issues relating to online harms, including technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV).
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“Are you sure that happened? Why didn’t you fight back? You should have known better.” These are some common responses survivors of sexual assault have heard, which may further their feelings of doubt, guilt and shame.
It is not always easy for survivors to tell someone about what h...
AWARE's Sexual Assault First Responder Training (SAFRT) has equipped hundreds of participants with the skills to be effective and empathetic first responders to survivors. This impact would not have been possible without the dedication and support of our incredible cohort of SAFRT trainers.
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