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Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, AWARE has seen a worrying spike in domestic violence calls. The stress and anxiety sparked by COVID-19 is triggering abusers to lash out against people around them. At the same time, social distancing measures to stop the spre...
How can we legally protect ourselves and loved ones when faced with domestic violence? What are the laws surrounding civil and Syariah divorce in Singapore?
Join us for this free series of talks, where representatives from IRB Law will discuss domestic violence and both civil and Syariah divo...
written by Ramesh Oviya
On 7 May 2020, LUÜNA Naturals, a women-led period care company that emphasises social impact, hosted an online panel discussion on the role of consent during COVID-19, with three speakers from Singapore.
Hosted by LUÜNA founder Olivia Cotes-James, the panel was a ...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 24 April 2020.
In the light of the court finding that a woman was justified in her claims that Dr Julian Ong and Dr Chan Herng Nieng were taking sexual advantage of their patients, the Association of Women for Action and Research w...
Written by Nur Atiqah Mohamad
On Saturday, 28 March 2020, AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) organised the first-ever online session of its Sexual Assault First Responder Training, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore.
Make that first and second. SACC held two online session...
Please note this workshop will be online only. Participants will be emailed the Zoom link shortly before the session date.
"Are you sure that happened? Why didn't you fight back? You should have known better." These are some common responses survivors of sexual assault have heard, which may furth...
Gender and the Coronavirus
Few communities around the world have remained unscathed from the global COVID-19 outbreak. Yet the pandemic underscores the already stark inequalities experienced by women (and so many other vulnerable people), in areas such as unemployment, housing, caregiving and do...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 March 2020.
10 March 2020 - Gender-equality organisation AWARE today announced two winners for its contest Taking Ctrl, Finding Alt, which aimed to crowdsource and develop solutions to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV).
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Note: Thanks to everyone who has signed up for this Sexual Assault First Responder Training! Hopefully you have received our notification that the training will be held ONLINE-ONLY this month (and for the foreseeable future). More details will be emailed out shortly. This month's session i...
