Everyone deserves a home. But Singapore's housing policies create hardship for single-parent families. HDB's complicated rules favour married couples, leaving single parents scrambling with frequent house moves, financial drain, strained family relationships, emotional stress and long waits, just f...
Last September, AWARE called for the law criminalising suicide to be reformed - urging that it should no longer be an offence. We also made recommendations to improve first response so that persons attempting suicide - who are already in distress - are not further traumatised by experiences of ar...
This post was originally published as a letter in TODAY newspaper.
The recent letter ‘Clarify HDB assistance scheme for second-time applicants’ [4 March 2017] highlights the difficulties that divorced or widowed parents face when applying for HDB housing.
The author suggested that the As...
Last September, AWARE called for the law criminalising suicide to be reformed – urging that it should no longer be an offence. We also made recommendations to improve first response so that persons attempting suicide – who are already in distress – are not further traumatised by experie...
On 1 March, AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) invited South-African born Claire McFarlane to speak about her experience with sexual assault. Around 30 people attended the event, including a former client of SACC, Emily, who shared her own traumatic experience of sexual assault in Singapore...
In collaboration with Footsteps to Inspire and in conjunction with International Women’s Day, AWARE’s Sexual Assault Care Centre (SACC) invites you to show your support for sexual assault survivors – and raise awareness on the many unspoken forms of sexual assault.
Date: 1st March 2017 (Wed...
This post was originally published as a press release on 20 February 2017.
This afternoon’s Budget speech by Minister of Finance Heng Swee Keat sought to set out directions for the future economy, but could have done substantially more to tackle the significant issue of the care economy i...
This post was originally published as a press release on 17 February 2017.
The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) strongly welcomes the government’s newly announced initiatives to promote a more victim-centric approach in the handling of sexual assault cases by the criminal ...
This post was originally published as a press release on 10 February 2017.
10 February 2017 – Public housing policies create serious difficulties for single parents and should be amended to be more inclusive, according to a report released by AWARE today.
The study (with accompanying Annex...
