It's been more than a year since #MeToo became a global phenomenon, rippling out into every sector of society as survivors of sexual harassment spoke up about their experiences. As its impact reached Singapore's shores, AWARE began receiving a record surge in clients at its Sexual Assault ...
"They didn't say no." "But they didn't say yes, either." One experience of sexual assault is one experience too many. We may not always know the right words to say, but we can all agree that sexual assault should never happen to anyone. One way of showing zero tolerance for ...
Written by Ericia Yeo, AWARE intern
It is one thing to endure the trauma of sexual assault. It is another to disclose one’s assault to a trusted individual, and then be blamed or chided for what happened.
Lack of support and unempathetic responses don’t just hinder a survivor’s healing pro...
This post was originally published as a press release on 13 February 2019.
AWARE welcomes the moves in the Criminal Law Reform Bill, introduced in Parliament on Monday, that mostly remove marital immunity for rape, and expand existing rape and sexual assault laws - for the former, includi...
"Why didn't you say no? Why didn't you fight back? But what were you wearing?"
One experience of sexual assault is one experience too many. We may not always know the right words to say, but we can all agree that sexual assault should never happen to anyone. One way to show zero toler...
By Sya Taha, co-founder of Crit Talk
On Saturday, 17 November 2018, Crit Talk, an AWARE Power Fund grantee, conducted a ‘Positive Parenting and Intimacy’ workshop to kickstart a conversation between parents on how to talk to their children about sex and their bodies.
Positive parenting me...
This post was originally published as a press release on 26 November 2018.
Ten women courageously open up about their sexual violence and harassment ordeal in a hard-hitting video, kicking off Aim for Zero, AWARE’s latest campaign to end sexual violence in Singapore.
Their stories give ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 21 November 2018.
A survey conducted by gender equality group AWARE and students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Diploma in Psychology Studies programme found youth knowledge about contraceptives to be poor. Notably, more than half the r...
Sexual violence is one of the most under-reported offences in the world. In October 2017 when the #metoo movement took off, there was a 79% spike in cases seen by our Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC).
Aim for Z...
