• SCWO Members

    Member Spotlight: Daughters of Tomorrow (DOT)

    Member Spotlight aims to highlight the great work carried out by SCWO’s diverse members. For this first feature, we would like to shine the spotlight on one of our new members, Daughters of Tomorrow Daughters Of Tomorrow (DOT) is a registered charity organisation in Singapore whose mission is to facilitate livelihood opportunities for underprivileged women, and support them in building financially independent and resilient families. Poverty is an invisible problem in Singapore, and many families live on less than $400 per capita income per month. Women from low-income communities face multiple barriers to employment due to child-rearing responsibilities, lack of flexibility in employment practices and lack of accessible training and…

  • President's Message

    A Happy New Year to All!

    2016 seems to have gone by in a flash! The new board was elected in June 2016 and we have been working hard at engaging our member organizations, advocacy and looking into new initiatives. As we enter a new year, it is timely to reflect on the accomplishments and events of the previous year and also share the plans for 2017. In terms of membership, we are now 59 members strong with the latest, Daughters of Tomorrow and Woolf Works joining us last year. In September, SCWO, together with the Garden of Hope Foundation, Taiwan organised The Asian Network of Women’s Shelters (ANWS) Conference – a 2-day conference which brought…

  • ASEAN & International Conferences

    SCWO at the 7th Working Session of the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing

    SCWO recently attended the Seventh Working Session of the Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA), 12-15 December 2016 at UN Headquarters in New York, represented by Vice Presidents, Ms Ho Shiong Yee (1st VP) and Ms Hazlina Amran-Halim (2nd VP). The OEWGA was established by the General Assembly by resolution 65/182 on 21 December 2010 for the purpose of strengthening the protection of the human rights of older people. The working group will continue to consider the existing international framework of human rights of older persons and identify possible gaps and how best to address them. At the session, SCWO highlighted the importance of bearing in mind the needs of…