"They didn't say no." "But they didn't say yes, either." One experience of sexual assault is one experience too many. We may not always know the right words to say, but we can all agree that sexual assault should never happen to anyone. One way of showing zero tolerance for ...
"Why didn't you say no? Why didn't you fight back? But what were you wearing?"
One experience of sexual assault is one experience too many. We may not always know the right words to say, but we can all agree that sexual assault should never happen to anyone. One way to show zero toler...
This post was originally published as a press release on 26 November 2018.
Ten women courageously open up about their sexual violence and harassment ordeal in a hard-hitting video, kicking off Aim for Zero, AWARE’s latest campaign to end sexual violence in Singapore.
Their stories give ...
This post was originally published as an op-ed in The Business Times on 12 October 2018.
Flip open any newspaper in 2018 and you’ll likely find one (if not several) reports on the latest public reckoning of sexual harassment and assault perpetrators. One year after the #metoo movement took of...
Gender equality group AWARE applauds the long awaited repeal of marital immunity for rape and the decriminalisation of suicide in its submission to the public consultation on the Penal Code review. To increase reporting of sexual crimes, the group recommends comprehensive education for the public, p...
This post was originally published as a press release on 24 August 2018.
At its Revolution Ball on Saturday evening, gender equality group AWARE launched the #MeToo Action Fund to support its upcoming campaign to end sexual assault, harassment and gender discrimination in the workplace.
Dono...
This letter was originally published in TODAY Voices on 24 April 2018.
Recent news reports discussing New Naratif’s failed bid for registration have occasioned a disquieting level of vitriol in some online conversation (“Acra rebutts duo behind New Naratif website over foreign influence”, 1...
This post was originally published as a forum letter in The Straits Times on 9 April 2018.
We agree that without legislation on workplace discrimination, it is difficult to take employers to task (Tafep seen as toothless if not given legal powers to act; April 6).
In our joint submissions to...
AWARE’s work - and the work of gender equality advocates everywhere - don’t just end at our own communities or borders. One such instance where we caused ripples of change was last year, when Chinese journalist Sophia Huang Xueqin, visited Singapore to attend a course and bravely spoke out about...
