One of the most quietly devastating consequences of COVID-19 has been the global surge in domestic violence, as people everywhere are trapped at home with their abusers.
In Singapore, circuit breaker measures in place since the beginning of April have led to a spike of calls to AWARE’s Wome...
This post was originally published as a press release on 8 May 2020.
8 May 2020 - After receiving record-breaking numbers of calls since the outbreak of COVID-19, gender-equality organisation AWARE today launched a new online text chat service. This chat service is an extension of AWARE’s l...
Gender and the Coronavirus
Few communities around the world have remained unscathed from the global COVID-19 outbreak. Yet the pandemic underscores the already stark inequalities experienced by women (and so many other vulnerable people), in areas such as unemployment, housing, caregiving and do...
This commentary was originally published in Channel NewsAsia on 26 March 2020.
SINGAPORE: Social isolation measures have been mandated around the world to contain the spread of coronavirus, but these have had undesirable side-effects.
According to Chinese daily The Global Times, the city ...
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This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 11 March 2020.
We appreciate the concerns raised by Mr Oh Ee Hoe about the potential misuse of the personal protection order (PPO) regime through false reports (Have safeguards to ensure personal protection orders are no...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 28 February 2020.
I welcome the latest efforts in addressing family violence and urge for particular attention to be paid to the vulnerabilities of foreign spouses.
Out of the 2,811 personal protection order applicati...
This post was originally published on TODAY on 12 March 2019.
by Laika Jumabhoy, senior case manager at AWARE's Sexual Assault Care Centre
In February, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam announced transformative amendments to the Protection from Harassment Act (POHA) to make it ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 13 February 2019.
AWARE welcomes the moves in the Criminal Law Reform Bill, introduced in Parliament on Monday, that mostly remove marital immunity for rape, and expand existing rape and sexual assault laws - for the former, includi...
