Sex education is a controversial and hotly debated issue around the world. AWARE’s latest roundtable discussion took this topic on, focusing on the harmful constructions of young women in some sex education curricula.
Twenty participants gathered on the evening of 19 September to share their vi...
AWAREs next roundtable is coming up on 19 September! The theme this month is Harmful Constructions of Young Women in Sex Education.
Sex education programmes that focus on promoting abstinence rather than providing accurate information on sexual health not only fail to adequately equip teens...
by Tan Jian Xiang and Catherine Smith
Sex education in Singapore is currently values-based, with abstinence as the main approach in keeping youth from premarital sexual activity. However, they can get information about sex from the Internet and their friends, without the supervision of parents or...
Quenyee Wong plays a grandmother in "Just A Bad Day". Here is what she has to say about her experience as an actor and what it means to be a Change Maker of the We Can! campaign.
For me, it truly was a tall order. Here was an email asking people with fu...
8 March 2012
Addressing Violence Against Women: in commemoration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2012 (press release)
Today is International Women’s Day – a day for recognising women’s right to freedom from violence, and to gender equality.
Singapore ratified the Conve...
They are everyday people with ordinary lives. Youve seen them. Theyre your neighbours, your colleagues, your mahjong kakis. Their problems are nothing new. But now, theyre asking you to step in.
Three women are faced with different threats at home, in the office, and at a party. When fam...
By Intan Wirayadi, Corinna Lim and Vivienne Wee
To eliminate WSH, all stakeholders must be engaged. Companies should adopt zero tolerance to WSH and instate policies, procedures and training for staff to deal with this. AWARE has provided training to 36 companies, at their request, on how to han...
Last year, AWARE commissioned a group of final year Ngee Ann Polytechnic students to conduct a survey on public attitudes towards violence against women.
This roundtable discussion will highlight the survey findings and recommendations on the issue.
Some of the issues that will be raised in th...
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Does your workplace have a clear sexual harassment policy in place and provide adequate training for managers to deal with such situations? If the answer is no, be part of the solution. Share what you learn in this cour...
