This commentary was originally posted on CNA on 1 April 2021.
SINGAPORE: On Mar 3, 33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard went missing in London while walking home from a friend’s house at around 9pm.
About a week later, a London police officer was charged with her murder. Hours after...
Written by Danesha Shah
On 6 March 2021, AWARE hosted a virtual panel, Violence in a Click—how do we close the tab on tech-facilitated sexual violence?, with the support of the High Commission of Canada.
The panel included the two teams working with AWARE under the “Taking Ctrl, Findin...
This op-ed was posted on CNA on March 25 2021.
It is not enough to increase jail time for those who sexually abuse children. Comprehensive understanding and education is needed to deal with this very complex issue, says AWARE’s Shailey Hingorani.
SINGAPORE: Recently, a man was sentenced t...
written by Danesha Shah, Elijah Tay and Kamalini K.
From 24 February to 8 March, a team of AWARE interns tuned in to watch Singapore's 2021 Budget and Committee of Supply (CoS) debates.
The CoS debates occur after the National Budget is announced. They comprise an examination into each min...
November 2020 marked the official end of our two-year campaign against sexual violence, Aim For Zero.
We launched the campaign in 2018, some time after the #MeToo movement erupted and calls spiked at our Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC). But the two-year span between November 2018 and 2020 w...
This letter was originally published in ChannelNews Asia on 2 March 2021.
SINGAPORE: Experts have long maintained that workplace sexual harassment is rooted in power imbalances.
The stereotypical perpetrator holds a powerful leadership position - for example, as a CEO or the head of a st...
In 2019, the number of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) cases received by AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) was 140, out of a total of 777 cases. This number has tripled since 2016, reflecting the upwards trend of TFSV cases on a national and global scale.
TFSV is a ty...
This is in response to a 19 February statement made by Viswa Sadasivan on Facebook. Refer to that statement here, as well as our previous comments (7 Feb, 11 Feb) on his behavior with Sharul Channa and Kiran Kandade.
Viswa has, in his latest statement, denied that his verbal comments to Sharul an...
written by Antara Dasgupta and Daneel Jannae Shih
On 10 February 2021, AWARE and Catalyse hosted the virtual event “Are Our Workplaces Safe Spaces?”, with the support of Otis Elevator Company and The Asia Foundation, and more than 90 people attending over Zoom.
The event commenced with...
