We held a very exciting contest, thanks to Pangdemonium's kind sponsor, where we gave away two pairs of tickets to their upcoming play, Falling, starring Neo Swee Lin and Tan Kheng Hua.
Opening on 13 May, Falling promises to be an enlightening piece of theatre examining a family's experiences ra...
A guest blog post by Camille Neale
The newly launched Doing Good Great: Thirteen Asian Heroes and Their Causes by Willie Cheng, Sharifah Mohamed & Cheryl Tang (Epigram Books) celebrates the work of thirteen individuals in Asia, tracing their first steps in promoting social change, their motiv...
After a year-long hiatus, the annual arts festival series returns as the all-new Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA). Led by Festival Director Ong Keng Sen, the Festival starts on 26 June beginning with a 17-day pre-festival programme, The O.P.E.N., and culminating with SIFA and its st...
On 20-24 October 2013, AWARE's Research and Advocacy (R&A) Coordinator, along with two volunteers from AWARE’s committee on formulating recommendations for Budget 2014, attended a Budget Analysis and Monitoring workshop for South East Asian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in Jakarta.
The...
2013 - The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Government in December 2000 to address the ethical, legal and social issues arising from human biomedical research and its applications. It develops and recommends policies on these issues, with the aim of protecting the rights...
At the EU Seminar on "Regional Approaches to Human Rights in Europe and Southeast Asia", held on 10th December 2012 to mark Human Rights Day, AWARE President Winifred Loh spoke about how women's rights are human rights and the need to take an intersectional approach to policy making.
Speech by Wini...
Signing the Convention underscores Singapore's collective commitment to do even more to improve the lives of persons with disabilities through early intervention, education, employment, adult care and other measures.
By Emily Lim, Lim Yen Ling and other members of AWARE’s Gender and Disability Pr...
Each sterilization case involving minors now has to be reviewed by a Hospital Ethics Committee. AWARE is very heartened that our lobbying efforts have resulted this measure.
On Oct 16, the Voluntary Sterilization Act (VSA) came into force, incorporating AWARE's key recommendation that a Court Orde...
One of AWARE’s key recommendations has been incorporated into the Voluntary Sterilisation (Amendment) Bill, as read in Parliament on September 10: an order from the High Court will now be required before the sterilisation of persons who lack mental capacity to decide on such matters can be car...
