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...
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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...
This post was originally published as an op-ed in The Business Times on 12 October 2018.
Flip open any newspaper in 2018 and you’ll likely find one (if not several) reports on the latest public reckoning of sexual harassment and assault perpetrators. One year after the #metoo movement took of...
Gender equality group AWARE applauds the long awaited repeal of marital immunity for rape and the decriminalisation of suicide in its submission to the public consultation on the Penal Code review. To increase reporting of sexual crimes, the group recommends comprehensive education for the public, p...
This article was originally published in The Straits Times Forum on 5 September 2018.
We refer to the article, “When home is where the sex abuse is”, where the writer cites lawyer Lee Terk Yang’s suggestion that the non-offending parent should face legal action for failing to report child s...
This post was originally published as a press release on 24 August 2018.
At its Revolution Ball on Saturday evening, gender equality group AWARE launched the #MeToo Action Fund to support its upcoming campaign to end sexual assault, harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace.
Dono...
This piece was originally published in Channel News Asia on 19 August 2018.
[caption id="attachment_39615" align="alignleft" width="496"] A father and his child at the first Baby Museum Tour in The Hague. (Photo: AFP/ANP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen) Taken from CNA[/caption]
According to a survey o...
