Play your part and help shape women’s rights in Singapore for the next five years

Date: September 10, Saturday
Time: 11am to 2pm
Venue: AWARE Centre (Block 5 Dover Crescent #01-22)

You may think that discrimination against women does not exist in Singapore, but it still does, in ways big and small, as shown through AWARE’s Shadow report to the United Nations Committee on CEDAW (Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women).

CEDAW is an international Bill of Rights for Women which Singapore ratified 16 years ago. Last July marked the government’s fourth time to the UN to report on its efforts to eliminate discrimination against women.

AWARE will continue to raise awareness on CEDAW and encourage more women and women-oriented groups to engage on this process. The AWARE team has just come back after lobbying at the UN at the 49th session of CEDAW in New York, and we are keen to share with you the process, the outcomes and work with you on a way forward to lobby on certain important issues.

Women in Singapore can play a bigger role using the CEDAW process to support other women in our country, who may not have it easy because of systemic shortfalls.

So please come and listen to new voices on the CEDAW process, join us in the next phase of advocacy and knowledge-sharing and if you are smitten by CEDAW as we are, then own it too. You can also come just for a knowledge top-up as CEDAW is for all women.

Our programme for the day will include a sharing on the process at the UN, a discussion on the Concluding Observations and a facilitated Call to Action on CEDAW.

This is open to all, not just AWARE members, and especially to all those individuals and groups keen to engage on CEDAW. So come along to the AWARE’s CEDAW Forum on Saturday, September 10, 2011.

Click here to register for this event.

For more information, contact Nadzirah at advocacy@aware.org.sg or 6779-7137.