Women from all walks of life – mothers, scientists, and entrepreneurs - shared their insights, experiences and struggles on caregiving, leadership and employment at a dialogue session for Muslim women on Saturday, 25 March.
Together with partner organisation Daughters Of Tomorrow (DOT), AW...
This post was originally published as a letter in TODAY newspaper.
The recent letter ‘Clarify HDB assistance scheme for second-time applicants’ [4 March 2017] highlights the difficulties that divorced or widowed parents face when applying for HDB housing.
The author suggested that the As...
Single parents face serious difficulties accessing public housing. From unrealistic income ceilings to a lack of transparency and clarity in policies, their families can experience stress, uncertainty and financial pressure, overcrowding and tension in relatives’ homes, and frustration with ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 February 2017.
10 February 2017 – Public housing policies create serious difficulties for single parents and should be amended to be more inclusive, according to a report released by AWARE today.
The study (with accompanying Annex...
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...
Recently, there have been some questions raised in Parliament on the rationale behind the policy of not recognising children of unwed mothers as “legitimate” children.
The parliament’s view is: “Where benefits or laws differentiate on legitimacy status, they reflect the Government’s ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 27 August 2016.
There is nothing wrong with single parent families
Children of single parents speak up in AWARE’s #asinglelove campaign
27 August 2016 – Two children of single parents are going public with their stories to help sh...
Thanks to a question in parliament, clear information on the number of children born to unmarried mothers each year is now publicly available. While maternity leave will soon be offered equally, these children – numbering over 10,000 – remain disadvantaged by state policy on matters like housing...
On Friday 24 June 2016, AWARE took part in the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council session in Geneva which adopted the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) report for Singapore. The UPR is a process where UN member states offer recommendations to one another on matters of human rights.
This i...
