This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 24 April 2020.
In the light of the court finding that a woman was justified in her claims that Dr Julian Ong and Dr Chan Herng Nieng were taking sexual advantage of their patients, the Association of Women for Action and Research w...
Written by Nur Atiqah Mohamad
On Saturday, 28 March 2020, AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) organised the first-ever online session of its Sexual Assault First Responder Training, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in Singapore.
Make that first and second. SACC held two online session...
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...
From 26 February to 6 March 2020, a team of interns from AWARE visited Parliament to follow the 2020 Committee of Supply (CoS) debates.
The CoS debates occur after the National Budget is announced. They comprise an examination into each ministry’s plans, during which individual Members of ...
IMPORTANT NOTICE: We have regretfully decided to postpone our 26 February Sexual Assault First Responder Training. A new date will be advertised as the virus situation becomes more clear. We are working to refund those who have already signed up. Our deepest apologies for this inconvenience.
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This commentary was originally published on Channel NewsAsia on 9 January 2020.
by Shailey Hingorani, Head of Research and Advocacy
SINGAPORE: Myths and stereotypes about manhood, masculinity and male sexuality abound in online comments to the news of an Indonesian man Reynha...
This post was originally published as a press release on 25 November 2019.
25 November 2019 - Gender-equality group AWARE announced today that its Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) has seen an overall rise in cases across three years involving technology-facilitated sexual violence, from 47 i...
AWARE posted a brief comment on social media on 14 November about two new “outrage of modesty” posters by the Singapore Police Force.
Our intentions were to contribute constructively to the ongoing public conversation about sexual violence in Singapore. Our earlier comments did not fully spel...
This commentary was originally published on Channel News Asia on 4 November 2019.
by Shailey Hingorani, Head of Research and Advocacy
Surrounded by rape myths that undermine the seriousness of sexual assault, some survivors may hesitate to call their experiences sexual assault, disc...
