Research & Campaigns

UN Expert to Singapore: offer more state support for eldercare, pension for all, minimum wage, poverty statistics

On the press conference held by Ms Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, the United Nations independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons.

‘Perempuan’ reveals complex lives of Muslim women in Singapore

First of its kind ebook offers essays and poems that explore issues of gender and sexuality, body image, and cultural identity.

State support for retirement is about meeting basic needs

Caregivers who are inadequately supported experience multiple forms of pressures and lower levels of well-being.

More inclusive political leadership must go beyond presidency

Singapore has not reached a stage where we are free from gender biases that limit women’s chances to participate fully in the political sphere

World Suicide Prevention Day: AWARE calls for suicide law reform

In view of World Suicide Prevention Day, AWARE has today released its report “Distress is not a crime: repeal Section 309”.

There is nothing wrong with single parent families.

The posters feature quotes by Isabel and Valerie about the obstacles they had to overcome as part of a single-parent family.

Over 10,000 children born to single parents

Clear information on the number of children born to unmarried mothers each year is now publicly available.

Vulnerable Adults Bill: AWARE’s submissions to the government consultation

AWARE's feedback on the Vulnerable Adults Bill, sent in response to the government consultation.

Grant more rights to foreign wives

The stigma around ‘mail order brides’ is only one challenge faced by the foreign wives of lower-income men in Singapore.