On August 17 2023, around 50 people attended a virtual event titled ‘For Good Reason: A Panel on Workplace Accommodations’ to discuss how companies can create policies to help all individuals thrive and how such inclusive measures in turn benefit the companies.
Organised by the Disabled P...
Written by Victoria Jagger, intern, AWARE
On Friday, 14 April, AWARE hosted a conversation with sexual assault survivor and advocate Rowena Chiu, during her two-week visit to Singapore. A small group of AWARE staff, members and friends were invited to hear Chiu recount her journey, from exper...
This letter was originally published in TODAY on 2 April 2023.
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM)’s response to Aware’s recommendations on the upcoming workplace fairness legislation bears further review.
Aware made our recommendations after the Tripartite Committee on Workplace Fairness re...
This post was originally published as a press release on 7 March 2023.
7 March 2023 - Singapore’s upcoming Workplace Fairness legislation must explicitly define discrimination; include sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression (SOGIE) in addition to other protected character...
AWARE welcomes the Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill that was tabled in Parliament last Monday. The announcement is timely, as the recent Sunlight AfA poll on online harms found that 31% of respondents have experienced and/or witnessed gender-based online harms in Singapore.
We are gl...
This post was originally published as a press release on 20 September 2022.
Around 1 in 2 workers in Singapore experienced workplace discrimination in the past five years, reveals a new survey by gender equality group AWARE in partnership with consumer research company Milieu Insight.
Sin...
Written by Varsha Sivaram
Trigger warning: This recap includes discussion of sexual assault and discrimination against LGBTQ people.
On 28 July 2022, around 50 people attended the virtual discussion “Queer Violence, Queer Silence: LGBTQ persons’ experience of sexual assault”.
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AWARE's Sexual Assault First Responder Training (SAFRT) has equipped hundreds of participants with the skills to be effective and empathetic first responders to survivors. This impact would not have been possible without the dedication and support of our incredible cohort of SAFRT trainers.
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This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 16 June 2022.
The recent case in which a member of a Catholic order sexually abused two boys raises questions about what institutions and organisations should do when they receive a sexual assault complaint, whether from an employ...
