Together with 10 other civil society organisations, AWARE submitted a joint report to the Human Rights Council in October 2020. The report covered a wide range of human rights issues in Singapore. In the area of women’s rights, issues raised included the persistence of the gender wage gap; violenc...
This post was originally published as a press release on 15 October 2020.
15 October 2020 - A coalition of 11 civil society organisations have come together to submit a joint report to the United Nations, as Singapore prepares for its third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) scheduled for 2021.
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Written by Aria Lee. Photographs courtesy of CAPE/Sun Jie Min.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” –Margaret Mead
The third iteration of the Apa Itu Activist? conference was held on Sat...
written by Megan Tan, AWARE intern
On 23 May, AWARE had the pleasure of hosting Nora Murat, formerly regional director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)’s East and South East and Oceania Regional Office (ESEAOR).
IPPF ESEAOR comprises of 23 member associations th...
By Firqin Sumartono, AWARE volunteer
On 25 September, Associate Professor Maznah Mohamad held a talk at AWARE on intersectionality of the women’s movement in Malaya. The term ‘intersectional’ was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) which views that “cultural patterns of oppression are not...
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...
This post was originally published as a press release on 22 November 2017 and posted on the SG CEDAW Coalition website.
Image credit: Sayoni
The United Nations’ CEDAW committee has repeated its recommendation that Singapore include in its Constitution or laws a definition and prohibition of all...
CEDAW, adopted by the United Nations in 1979, defines discrimination against women and sets an agenda for nations to end inequitable laws, policies and practices. Every few years, Singapore reports to the UN on its progress in achieving gender equality, and NGOs are also invited to offer informa...
A guest blog post by Camille Neale
On 10 December 2015, in celebration of the annual international human rights day, the Delegation of the European Union to Singapore hosted a seminar on “Progress and Perspectives for Women’s rights in Singapore and ASEAN”. The seminar explored the progress...
