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Written by Lim Ziqian, AWARE intern
Photographs by Megan Tan, AWARE intern
Being away from your child in order to provide for him. Seek...
This post was originally published on TODAY on 15 May 2019.
by Shailey Hingorani, Head of Research and Advocacy, AWARE
On Mother’s Day last Sunday (May 12), many Singaporeans took their mums out for meals and showered them with messages of love and gratitude — fitting tributes to t...
Our “Your Stories” series are submissions shared with us via email or in one-on-one interviews, for the purposes of our research and campaigns. All names have been changed (unless the use of real names was explicitly permitted by the author), and we have sought permission to publish from the...
This piece was originally published in Channel News Asia on 19 August 2018.
[caption id="attachment_39615" align="alignleft" width="496"] A father and his child at the first Baby Museum Tour in The Hague. (Photo: AFP/ANP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen) Taken from CNA[/caption]
According to a survey o...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 August 2018.
To help break low-income mothers out of poverty, gender equality group AWARE recommends that low-income households should have access to free good quality formal childcare; the State should put in place a robust employment...
This post was originally published as a press release on 8 March 2018.
AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) and DPA (Disabled People’s Association) welcome the Government’s move to amend the Employment Act (EA) to remove the salary cap so that it covers all workers, and to tr...
An edited version of this letter was published in TODAY Voices on 6 March 2018.
Association of Women for Research and Advocacy (AWARE) welcomes the introduction of a new Tripartite Standard to encourage employers to offer caregiving leave to help families deal with unexpected caregiving needs. ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 14 February 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE (Association of Women for Action and Research) and disability advocacy group DPA (Disabled People’s Association) have called for stronger protection against employment discrimination in a joi...
This post was originally published as a press release on 12 January 2018.
Gender equality group AWARE submitted its eighth annual set of recommendations for the National Budget through the public consultation portal REACH on 12 January, calling for the Government to take concrete steps in endin...
