Written by Victoria Jagger, AWARE intern
Following Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s Budget speech on 14 February 2023, Parliament conducted the Committee of Supply (COS) debates. COS debates are an opportunity for Members of Parliament (MPs) to discuss and question each Ministry’s ag...
This op-ed was originally published in The Straits Times on 15 February 2023.
I cheered – alongside, I imagine, parents across Singapore – when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced that government-paid paternity leave would be doubled from the current two w...
This post was originally published as a press release on 15 February 2023.
Amid a suite of announcements in the 2023 National Budget aimed at boosting support for families and working parents, gender-equality organisation AWARE found cause for optimism. Yet the group also identified places wh...
This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2022.
Gender-equality organisation AWARE welcomed a range of measures announced yesterday by Finance Minister Lawrence Wong in Singapore’s “Charting Our New Way Forward Together” National Budget.
In particular, the ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 17 February 2021.
Gender-equality organisation AWARE expressed approval of some measures in Singapore’s “Emerging Stronger Together” National Budget, announced yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. These measures were ai...
This post was originally published as a press release on 8 January 2021.
As Singapore navigates the consequences of the global coronavirus pandemic, national recovery efforts should be as inclusive as possible to prevent gender inequalities from widening, says gender-equality group AWARE.
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In Singapore, the first Minimum Income Standard (MIS) research project, which was published in May 2019, investigated how ordinary Singaporeans think about what constitutes basic needs in Singapore today, and determined the household budgets necessary to meet these needs for older people. N...
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 ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 19 February 2020.
19 February 2020 - Gender-equality group AWARE applauded the government’s endeavour to present a Budget that balances today’s most urgent needs, resulting from the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak, whil...
