November 2020 marked the official end of our two-year campaign against sexual violence, Aim For Zero.
We launched the campaign in 2018, some time after the #MeToo movement erupted and calls spiked at our Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC). But the two-year span between November 2018 and 2020 w...
This letter was originally published in ChannelNews Asia on 2 March 2021.
SINGAPORE: Experts have long maintained that workplace sexual harassment is rooted in power imbalances.
The stereotypical perpetrator holds a powerful leadership position - for example, as a CEO or the head of a st...
This is in response to a 19 February statement made by Viswa Sadasivan on Facebook. Refer to that statement here, as well as our previous comments (7 Feb, 11 Feb) on his behavior with Sharul Channa and Kiran Kandade.
Viswa has, in his latest statement, denied that his verbal comments to Sharul an...
This op-ed was originally published in The Business Times on 5 February 2021.
Ask any company how it plans to combat workplace sexual harassment, and it will likely mention “anti-harassment training”. Sounds great in theory. But, in practice, are anti-harassment training programmes really e...
Just how prevalent is workplace sexual harassment in Singapore?
A new survey by AWARE and market research company Ipsos—the first-ever nationally representative survey on workplace sexual harassment in Singapore—has revealed a shocking statistic: Two in five workers in Singapore (both women a...
This post was originally published as a press release on 14 January 2021
Two in five workers in Singapore have been sexually harassed at the workplace in the past five years. This is the sobering key finding from a survey by market research company Ipsos in collaboration with gender-equality ...
This letter was originally published in TODAY on 7 December 2020.
A recent report by the Ministry of Manpower, the Tripartite Alliance for Dispute Management and the Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (Tafep) revealed that 60 per cent more employers ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 2 December 2020.
* Correction notice, July 2023: When our analysis was performed, our system did not capture the full range of TFSV cases seen by SACC in 2019. We have since amended this post accordingly. We sincerely apologise for the...
"I think this is something that we could rely on in future, when violence happens again. That really gave us hope."
AWARE was founded in 1985 and marks its 35th birthday in 2020. In that time, the organisation has effected important changes in Singapore laws and policies relating to gender eq...
