AWAREs next roundtable will be held on 9 December, featuring speaker Mee-Lian as she shares the results of our study on the attitudes, sexual practices and concerns of women with HIV or living with HIV-positive husbands or partners in Singapore.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 60 women ...
by Ranjana Raghunathan and Tan Jian Xiang
This year’s theme for International Day of Older Persons (Oct 1) is: The Future We Want: What Older Persons Are Saying.
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) held a focus group discussion at the Society for WINGS (Women’s Initiat...
19 August, 2013
AWARE is heartened by the policy shifts outlined by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in the National Day Rally speech 2013. We applaud the government’s commitment to invest in every Singaporean to reach their full potential, through much needed reforms in housing, education, and h...
by Tan Jian Xiang and Catherine Smith
Sex education in Singapore is currently values-based, with abstinence as the main approach in keeping youth from premarital sexual activity. However, they can get information about sex from the Internet and their friends, without the supervision of parents or...
By Rachel Pullen, Vivienne Wee and Nadzirah Samsudin
Is it possible that gender stereotyping leads to social neglect of older women’s health? Is it also possible that some of the older women internalise such gender stereotypes, leading them not to prioritise their own health? When they do choose ...
This year, AWARE reiterates its recommendations for an inclusive budget that adequately meets the needs of all women in Singapore, regardless of age, marital status and disabilities. The Budget should also be aligned with the State’s obligations under the international treaties that Singapore has ...
2 February 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Population Paper – Why No Public Consultation and Considerations of Social Justice?”
It is commendable that the Government has released a Population Paper setting out its proposed population strategy from now till 2030. This forward planning and ...
2013 - The Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Government in December 2000 to address the ethical, legal and social issues arising from human biomedical research and its applications. It develops and recommends policies on these issues, with the aim of protecting the rights...
Reproductive technologies tend to have class biases. We should ensure that our policies do not encourage and enable only a narrow category of women to reproduce, and thereby deepen inequalities among women.
By Dr Kanwaljit Soin and Dr Vivienne Wee
AWARE upholds women’s right to choose how an...
