Together with 10 other civil society organisations, AWARE submitted a joint report to the Human Rights Council in October 2020. The report covered a wide range of human rights issues in Singapore. In the area of women’s rights, issues raised included the persistence of the gender wage gap; violenc...
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...
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 op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 26 January 2021.
A growing number of people are speaking out publicly about sexual harassment in the workplace. But many individuals continue to be deterred.
A recent survey by gender equality group Association of Women for Acti...
This letter was originally published in TODAY on 15 January 2021.
Last week, Law Minister K Shanmugam released important data pertaining to sexual assault in Singapore.
From 2017 to 2019, there were 6,988 reports of sexual assault, including rape, sexual assault by penetration, outrage of m...
This post was originally published as a press release on 14 January 2021
Two in five workers in Singapore have been sexually harassed at the workplace in the past five years. This is the sobering key finding from a survey by market research company Ipsos in collaboration with gender-equality ...
AWARE's Alamak! Awards are given out to the most jaw-dropping instances of sexism and misogyny seen in Singapore. They are AWARE’s tongue-in-cheek way of raising awareness about, and condemning, these behaviours. The nomination process takes into account public feedback.
As per tradition, ...
