Nearly 240,000 women - majority from Indonesia and the Philippines - leave their homes in search of a better life for themselves and their families. On top of difficult working conditions, domestic workers also struggle to maintain connections with their families and lives back home.
In celebrati...
An edited version of this letter was published in The Straits Times on 10 November 2016.
The latest changes to conditions for Speaker’s Corner events and indoor assemblies suggest a troubling closing off to different perspectives (“Keeping domestic issues for locals”, 1 Nov).
Citizens ha...
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...
This article was first published in The Straits Times on 14 June 2016.
The Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) recent statement on foreign sponsorship for Pink Dot is troubling, not least because of the lack of clarity in the line between "local" and "foreign" ("'Foreign entities should not fun...
A guest blog post by Alison Kuah.
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a mechanism of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Every four years, a UN Member State has its human rights record ‘peer reviewed’ by other states.
On 27 January 2016, the Singapore government sent an inter-agenc...
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...
Last week, AWARE and TWC2 released a joint statement calling on the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Law, the Attorney-General’s Chambers and the Singapore Police Force to clarify the law on filming domestic workers.
On Friday, the Ministry of Manpower and the Singapore Police Force sent u...
Recently, the media has discussed the camera surveillance of domestic workers by employers. Reports state (and our experience tells us) that this includes the use of cameras in bathrooms and in the workers’ sleeping quarters.
As organisations who work to promote women’s and migrants’ rights...
By Goh Li Sian, Research and Advocacy Coordinator
We were concerned to read that a foreign domestic worker was arrested after giving birth to a stillborn baby ("Maid hides her stillborn baby in drawer"; Oct 21).
According to Article 12 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discr...
