AWARE's Advocacy and Research department is currently looking for research respondents for a new study on coercive control in Singapore.
What is coercive control?
Coercive control is a pattern of behaviour where a person repeatedly isolates, degrades, exploits, controls, humiliates or frighten...
Written by Victoria Jagger, intern, AWARE
On Friday, 14 April, AWARE hosted a conversation with sexual assault survivor and advocate Rowena Chiu, during her two-week visit to Singapore. A small group of AWARE staff, members and friends were invited to hear Chiu recount her journey, from exper...
25 November marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (and AWARE's official birthday). It's also the start of 16 days of activism culminating in International Human Rights Day. For this year's IDEVAW, we're focusing on coercive control—an insidious form of domestic ...
AWARE welcomes the Online Safety (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill that was tabled in Parliament last Monday. The announcement is timely, as the recent Sunlight AfA poll on online harms found that 31% of respondents have experienced and/or witnessed gender-based online harms in Singapore.
We are gl...
Section 424 of Singapore’s Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) was introduced with the intent of ensuring that serious crimes are reported to the police and perpetrators taken to task. It states in summary that every person aware of the commission of, or the intention of any other person to commit, ...
“Are you sure that happened? Why didn’t you fight back? You should have known better.” These are some common responses survivors of sexual assault have heard, which may further their feelings of doubt, guilt and shame.
It is not always easy for survivors to tell someone about what happe...
“Are you sure that happened? Why didn’t you fight back? You should have known better.” These are some common responses survivors of sexual assault have heard, which may further their feelings of doubt, guilt and shame.
It is not always easy for survivors to tell someone about what happe...
Written by Varsha Sivaram
Trigger warning: This recap includes discussion of sexual assault and discrimination against LGBTQ people.
On 28 July 2022, around 50 people attended the virtual discussion “Queer Violence, Queer Silence: LGBTQ persons’ experience of sexual assault”.
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“Are you sure that happened? Why didn’t you fight back? You should have known better.” These are some common responses survivors of sexual assault have heard, which may further their feelings of doubt, guilt and shame.
It is not always easy for survivors to tell someone about what h...
