Be the Changemaker Champion for Singapore Key Population Women
Singapore Group of (People) Women Who Use Drugs
Reinforcing our Collective Pledge Commitment
In this page, we're inviting the diverse individual readers, including the local collective networking allied to be enlightened and captivated through the underlying resilience collective voices coming from the diversity inclusion of the local group of (people) women who use drugs or coping with drug use disorder, self-narratives testimonial stories. Our goals are to encourage, promote great opportunities for those in need. access to the right resources, people can become empowered by their own abilities and gain the confidence to fulfill their potential. Learn more about our work by getting in touch with our team today.
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
Martin Luther
A Brief Introduction
Whereby, Nobody Nor Any Group of Community Shall Be Left Behind
Do you know that Singapore is recorded among Asia 23 countries, that still retained the mandatory death penalty to prosecutes against any presume drug trafficker person who was found to carries any amounted of drugs weight above and not less than 250 grams. And based from the 2010 infamous journal report of "Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock" written by the UK journalist Alan Shadrake, but yet the most accredited and transparent data case-studies report subsequently to be recorded by any journalist, whereby through the report itself is how we could actually glance back to collects upon the explicit data statics number dated from 1974 till 2004 whereby the unofficial recorded number of women to be executed for murder were listed to 7 and 9 for drug trafficking.
And subsequently, within these periods of time, the first and only woman who received President Clemency Pardon was in 1983, granted to Siti Aminah Binti Jaffar, a Malay woman and single mother of one child. Siti Aminah, 19 years old at the time of her arrests in 1977, was eventually sentenced to the death penalty in Aug 1978 after she was found guilty for drugs trafficking an amounted of 43.3g of heroin at the Treetop Bar in Holiday Inn Hotel, with her male partner, through a tip-off. Whereby, the second women who were sentenced to the death penalty for drug trafficking were, Low Hong Eng, a Chinese women, 35 years of age who eventually become the first women to be executed and hanged till death on Oct 9, 1981.