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 ...
We are interested in interviewing members of transnational families to learn about your experiences living and working in Singapore, and how citizenship status affects your family life.
To qualify, you must be one of the following:
1. A foreign spouse
Married/di...
This letter was originally published in The Straits Times on 28 February 2020.
I welcome the latest efforts in addressing family violence and urge for particular attention to be paid to the vulnerabilities of foreign spouses.
Out of the 2,811 personal protection order applicati...
You are a Singaporean who has been presented with a great career opportunity in Australia. You decide to take it—though it means leaving your ageing parents behind at home. Yet as your parents grow frailer, and their care needs increase, how will you make sure they are sufficiently looked after ...
You are invited to attend a talk by Constance Singam, activist, author and former AWARE president, on the untold story of Singapore's Indian women.
'Little has been documented about the history of women in Singapore, and even less has been said about our Indian women.
Did you know, for ins...
Leon* is a Singaporean man married to a Vietnamese woman (Wendy*). They met in Singapore in 2012 when Wendy was working on a Social Visit Pass. At that time, Leon was unaware that Wendy was involved in a sham marriage. She was arrested in early 2013 and imprisoned for a few months. Upon her releas...
June* is a 49 year-old Filipina and has been living and working in Singapore for 25 years. She was married to a Singaporean man and have two children together. They got divorced in 2008 and June gained custody and sole care and control of the children, who were 13 and 10 years old. After the div...
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...
