Our Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) will be operating with limited resources for two weeks (24th December 2016 - 8th January 2017) due to which SACC services will also be limited.
SACC helpline and counselling will operate as usual but there will be a delayed response via SACC email. ...
What a rewarding year 2016 has been! Keeping up the momentum from last year, AWARE has made leaps and bounds in our work towards gender equality through our advocacy, services and programmes. Your support made all our efforts possible. Here are some highlights of the year.
1. We champio...
This post was originally published in TODAY newspaper on 9 December 2016.
More than 20 years after Singapore acceded to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), it continues to lag in fulfilling its obligations under the treaty, including the obligat...
This post was originally published as a press release on 29 November 2016.
29 November 2016 - In view of World AIDS Day on 1 December, AWARE has released a study highlighting the experiences and vulnerabilities of non-sex worker women living with HIV or HIV-positive partners.
Commissioned b...
This post was originally published as a press release on 25 November 2016.
Prominent male leaders in Singapore will don white ribbons this week as part of the White Ribbon campaign, a global movement which unites men and boys to end violence against women and girls.
Organised in view of Intern...
Caregiving transforms men in innumerable positive ways. As men do more of the caregiving, violence against women falls. Delinquency declines. The health, happiness and well-being of men, children and women improve. Couples report better sex lives. Women’s income increases. And domestic conflicts d...
In the November issue of Teenage Magazine, a local lifestyle and entertainment magazine for young people in Singapore, a reader wrote into the Dear Kelly advice column to talk about her experience of rape. You can see the victim-blaming response "Kelly" had given here. The backlash from the public ...
Here is a compiled and updated list of questions raised in Parliament that are related to AWARE’s work, or are of concern to our organisation.
3 March 2017 – Paternity leave
Mr Seah Kian Peng asked the MSF how many eligible working fathers have applied for a full week of paid paternity ...
Function 8 is hosting the annual Freedom Film Festival on 19 and 20 November! Happening at The Projector, AWARE's research executive, Chong Ning Qian, will be speaking at two film discussions - Unsilent Potato and Pertanyaan Untuk Bapak (A Question for my Father) - both dealing with the topic of...
