[caption id="attachment_48908" align="alignnone" width="599"] (L-R) Speakers Lee Yoke Mun, Liyana Dhamirah, Dr Stephanie Chok and Jeyda Simren Sekhon Atac at "Living in Limbo" on 19 October 2022[/caption]
written by Kimberly Wong, Research Executive, AWARE
Why is it that in Singapore—a natio...
IMPORTANT: The venue has changed to Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Manasseh Meyer Building, Seminar Room 3-5. Kindly also note that Project Executive Lee Yoke Mun will replace Corinna Lim in representing AWARE.
Housing is a basic need. So why is it that in Singapore—a nation widely r...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 21 June 2022.
As a long-time social worker, I appreciated the Ministry of Social and Family Development's letter, "No fixed cap on how long families can stay at shelters" (June 11).
Homeless families and those experiencing viol...
This post was originally published as a press release on 29 July 2021.
29 July 2021 - Implement comprehensive sexuality education covering consent, violence and gender roles in all schools in Singapore. Place a legal obligation on employers to address workplace harassment. Impose a temporary,...
In collaboration with Beyond Social Services and other organisations, AWARE has been providing support to low-income families through the Mind the Gap COVID-19 relief fund.
AWARE has focused its support on households with single mothers, migrant spouses and self-employed persons. Fr...
This post was originally published as a press release on 1 June 2020.
1 June 2020 - Migrant wives are more vulnerable than Singaporean women to family violence, and face disadvantages in divorce, as they lack the independent right to reside in Singapore.
Those are the findings of gender-eq...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 12 May 2020.
National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said last week that about 5,200 public rental households, or about 10 per cent of all such households, are in rent arrears (More social workers at family service centres, May...
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...
This commentary was originally published in Channel NewsAsia on 8 March 2020.
by Shailey Hingorani, Head of Research and Advocacy
SINGAPORE: International Women’s Day offers an opportunity to evaluate the extent to which socio-economic and other gaps between men and women have narrowe...
