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Anamah Tan[edit]
Family and Education Background[edit]
Dr. Tan is an activist for Singaporean and Asian women’s rights and a skilled family lawyer with over 30 years of experience.[1]. She was born in 1940 to a Chinese family and was adopted by parents of a Ceylonese heritage. She started her education by attending St. Margaret’s Girls School and completed her A levels at the Bartley Secondary School. This was followed by her graduation in 1963 with LLB (Honours) and her calling to the Singapore bar. Her first legal officer job was at the Housing and Development Board (HDB) [2]. To further her education, she earned her MRICS in Law/Building/Valuation in 1966. From 1981-1983, Dr. Tan completed the Solicitors course then, attended the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators and graduated while completing her fellow at the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 1996. To complete her educational endeavors, she earned her PhD, Hon. in Business Administration at Kennedy Western University. She is married and has two children and two grandchildren [1]
Career Achievements: Advocacy for Women in Singapore[edit]
Her career jump started when she co-founded the Singapore Association of Women Lawyers (SAWL) in 1974 to cover domestic violence for women. They wanted to teach people about the law and expand their services from woman to family law which was established in 1995. She was initially vice president and then became president later. SAWL hosted its first public exhibition for International Women’s Year and women’s rights. The second one was held on legal literacy in 1984. Dr. Tan advocates for changes in socio-politics, legal schemes and advances for women.[1] . A couple of her most impressive achievements were co-founding the Singapore Council of Women’s Organizations (SCWO) in 1980 and serving as president from 1991-2000 where she was able to succeed in consolidating other women’s organizations in Singapore to become a unified body under SCWO [2]. She made a representation on the Select Committee, on behalf of the Singapore Council of Woman’s Organizations and the Council of the Law Society, on the amendments to the Women’s Charter in 1996. This is what established the rights women have in family and marriage matters as well as, helped to create the family court [1]. Furthermore, she was the president of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Confederation of Women’s Organizations (ACWO) from 2000-2002 [2]. She also served as a “Justice of the Peace since 1998” [3]. One of her greatest accomplishments was becoming president of the International Council of Women (ICW) from 2003-2006. This is a huge impact on her career because it was one of the best ways she could advocate for human rights for women and make a difference nationally [1]
Another resource she used to strengthen her connections across the globe in order to be an activist for women was by joining the APEC Woman Leaders Network (WLN) from 1992-2002. This is the gender focal point network for Singapore that shares views and opinions about the gender forum. Following APEC in 2002, she attended the “9th national congress of Vietnam Women’s Union in Hanoi as president of ACWO (ASEAN Confederation of Women’s Organization) UN Congo Meeting to represent ICW as Chair of ICE Asian Regional Council in Phuket, Thailand”.[1]. One project she worked on for ACWO was a mentoring and leadership program for women to induce poverty reduction. To take her career to new heights, she “represented Singapore either as head of Non-governmental organization (NGO) or as an NGO member of official delegations in numerous regional, international and United Nations (UN) conferences on women’s issues and gender mainstreaming, including the 4th Conference on Women in 1995 and the Beijing +5 UN General Assembly Special Session on Women in 2000” [1]. To continue her work with United Nations, she joined the committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UNCEDAW) that consisted of 23 gender experts to monitor the progress made by countries involved. She was elected from 2005-2008 as the first Singaporean on the committee [3]
While in her position at HDB, they implemented “affordable public housing in Singapore under its Home Ownership for the People Scheme” [1]. She assisted in helping the poor get jobs and stay on their feet. In addition, Dr. Tan also was involved in the following organizations: The Young Woman’s Christian Association (YWCA) from 1975-1998 where she was elected as Council Member of the World YWCA representing the YWCA of Singapore and served finally as vice president of Asia at the World YWCA from 1977-1985 [3], the National Council of Social Service where she was elected the first vice president, the Communicable Diseases Centre’s Medifund Committee, the Inter-Ministry Committee, the National Crime Prevention Council and Senior Citizens Committee since 1998 and the National Council Against Drug Abuse. Currently, she has been the Women Against Family Violence Committee (WAFVC) co-chairperson since 1997 [1]. She is very passionate about societal issues like family dysfunction, troubled youth, women’s rights and drug abuse.
Awards[edit]
Her tremendous contributions to the Afro-Asia Housing Congress in Singapore as secretary-general earned Dr. Tan the National Medal for Public Administration (Bronze) in 1966. This medal was for the work she did with spreading their affordable public housing scheme with African and other Asian nations in lower income populations. In 1993, she earned the National Medal for Community work award from helping the poor, underprivileged and women. Following this award, in 1998, she was awarded the National Medal for Public Service Star and the Justice of the Peace.[3]. To celebrate her accomplishment for co-founding SAWL, it was awarded the Best Family Practice by the Asian Law Awards in 2001 and the Asian Legal Business “Legal Who’s Who Singapore 2003” for Family Law. In addition to these awards, Dr. Tan received the Top Ten Y2000 Civil Marriage Celebrants Awards by the Ministry of Community Development & Sports. Lastly, her two most recent awards were the SCWO award in 2002 for the work she has done with Singaporean woman groups and the East Asia Millennium Woman Peach Award Humanitarian Services in 2003 [1]
Hall of Fame[edit]
To celebrate Dr. Tan for all of her feats throughout the duration of her career, she was honored by being inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame in 2014 in the Advocacy and Activism category[2]. Dr. Tan’s continuous involvement and leadership in organizations to be an activist for Singaporean women as well as, her work as a lawyer have not gone unnoticed, making her well deserving of this recognition.
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