This is what AWARE has achieved over the years:
2008 Body Redefined Campaign to encourage Singaporeans to have a broader definition of beauty; promote the ideas that a healthy body is a beautiful body and that confidence is beautiful, and prevent and reduce the physical and mental consequences of negative self-esteem.
We conducted 17 talks in Schools covering Roles of Women in Society; Body Image: Definition of Beauty; Rights of Women & the Penal Code; Women & HIV; Sexual Harassment; and 6 Workshops on Self Defence.
On THINK BOX (ThinkBox brings together businesspeople, academics, women leaders and educationists to tackle relevent social issues affecting women today – its aim is to encourage more women and men to become part of the dialogue on issues of gender equality and understanding).
“Is Singapore Ready for Hilary Clinton?” | “Money: Women & Men” | “Sex, Power and Office Politics” | “Let’s Not Leave Our Boys Behind”
2007 Revisions to the penal code, including issues of marital rape
2007 United Nations recognition of how Singapore has become more compliant with CEDAW (Convention to Eliminate all forms of Discrimination Against Women)
2006 Development of legal reforms that addressed gaps in Singapore’s legislation on trafficking (in collaboration with NUS Pro Bono Law Society)
2005 Equalisation of benefits in the current medical scheme in the Civil Service for male and female officers
2004 Constitutional Amendment to accord the same citizenship rights to the children of Singaporean women as for Singaporean men
2004 Nomination of Braema Mathiaparanam as Nominated Member of Parliament (appointed)
2004 Government’s acknowledgement that men and women play equal roles as joint ‘heads of household’
2003 Policy change lifting the quota restricting female intake in the Medical Faculty at NUS
1999 Policy to allow women to sponsor their foreign spouses for citizenship or PR status
1996 Revisions to the Women’s Charter to provide more protection for victims of domestic violence
1995 Moved to Dover Crescent where our centre is right now
1994 Hedwig Anuar, AWARE founding member, nominated Her World Woman of the Year 1993
1994 MOE decision to offer ‘Life Skills for Boys and Girls’ instead of the previous arrangement which required girls to take home economics and boys to take technical studies
1994 Change to the way police handle rape cases as a result of the Rape Study Committee’s ‘Proposal for standardising and enhancing police procedures in rape management’
1994 Kanwaijit Soin, AWARE founding member, nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) for second term
1993 Shirin Fozdar Trust Fund launched
1993 First issue of AWARE’s annual journal ‘Awareness’ published
1993 Kanwaijit Soin nominated Her World Woman of the Year 1992 (Mar)
1992 Kanwaijit Soin became first woman NMP
1992 Face to face counselling (May) and Legal Counselled (Nov) started
1991 Helpline launched at AWARE Centre, then at Race Course Road
1989 Decision of the Advertising Standards Authority of Singapore (ASAS) to develop new guidelines to curb discrimination in advertisement
1988 Published important report – ‘Population: An issue of current concern’
1988 ‘Stop Violence against Women’ Public Education Campaign (‘Men, Women and Violence Handbook’, jointly with SAWL – Singapore Association of Women Lawyers)
1987 Campaign Against Priority Primary School Registration of Children of Graduate Women
1987 Represented on SCWO (Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations) Task Force for Prevention of Violence Against Women
1987 ‘Alternative Country Report on Women in Singapore’ presented at UN Decade for Women, Nairobi, Kenya
1985 AWARE registered as a society
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