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Posts tagged with "human rights"
Deterring factor of death penalty questionable due to lack of research and statistics
Mar. 4 | The following is a media release by Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign: On Thursday, 1 March 2012, The Straits Times published a special report on the death penalty in Singapore. As the death penalty is not often being discussed in the mainstream...
Sunny passes away – from political party member to homelessness
Jul. 28 | TOC just got news that Sunny passed away yesterday. Since this story was published, Sunny had found shelter in a Home for the Aged. His family cannot be traced to claim his body. TOC is enquiring how we may claim the body and give him a proper funeral....
UPR Consultation
Oct. 6 | Dear Friends, Singapore is due for its first review on human rights at the Human Rights Council in Geneva next year. Civil Society is encouraged to participate in this process by submitting Shadow reports on how they perceive the State has met its obligations...
MARUAH Pillar Talk – Human Rights in Singapore History: Questions, Assertions or Parenthesis?
Mar. 23 | MARUAH is launching the first of its quarterly Pillar Talk Series on Human Rights titled “Human Rights in Singapore History: Questions, Assertions or Parenthesis?“. The talk will feature Professor Loh Kah Seng who is a Singapore Historian,...
Is multiracialism also just an aspiration?
Jan. 4 | Breaking News: HDB resale flat prices rose 3.8 per cent over the third quarter which saw prices going up by 3.6 per cent. (Straits Times) Singapore’s economy shrank 6.8 percent in the fourth quarter to December from the previous three months…...
Haunting mural graces Citylink
Dec. 18 | Report and photos by Wallace Woon The black wall with its black dripping paint and chalk scribblings resemble the chaos of a classroom. Yet the message within the writings is hardly academic. Facts pointing towards the various injustices throughout countries...
Children with disabilities & the Compulsory Education Act
Nov. 27 | Please use the “Email this article to a friend” button at the end of this article and help us let your friends or family know about this event, especially those who may have children with disabilities. From Maruah: Dear all, The International...
Human rights 101
Nov. 3 | Report and photos by Cerelia Lim WHEN PEOPLE do not know their human rights, abuse and discrimination steps in, said Ms Natalya Twohill, a speaker at the Whose Right Is It Anyway workshop on 31 October. The workshop held at AWARE centre saw more than...
Human Rights in ASEAN: An Economic Perspective
Oct. 30 | Cheong En Min >> TOC International The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was inaugurated in 1967, during an era of regional conflict and political irascibility, when relations between the pre-nascent member-states were strained. Aside...
VJ – Myanmar through the lens
Oct. 30 | Maruah is proud to present VJ – Myanmar through the lens, two evenings of powerful documentaries from inside Burma, including the internationally acclaimed Burma VJ. Admission is free, but prior registration is required as seats are limited....
Whose Right is it anyway?
Oct. 29 | Dear Friends, MARUAH, a local human rights advocacy group, is organising a youth human rights workshop together with UNYAS on the 31st October 2009, 9.00am to 5.30pm at the Singapore Management University. Entitled ‘whose Right is it anyway?’,...
Richard Magnus as AICHR representative
Oct. 22 | By Fang Shihan What is the AICHR? More information here. FORMER Senior District Judge, Richard Magnus is the new Singapore representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is...
ASEAN Human Rights – Going Forward or Stalled?
Sep. 15 | Donaldson Tan / Deputy Editor With less than 6 weeks to go till the deadline of the launch of the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission for Human Rights (AICHR), the Singapore Government has been surprisingly quiet on matters related to the appointment of...
This weekend – Pow Wow, Human Rights, WP Youth Wing, Tan Kin Lian & Invest Fair
Aug. 20 | Two public forums, a “pow wow”, a petition-signing event at Speakers’ Corner and Invest Fair 09. This Saturday, 22 August, looks set to be a busy day for civil society. On Friday, 21 August, the Friends Of SDP has its monthly “Pow...
The not-so-universal declaration of human rights
Mar. 11 | Alastair Su During the ASEAN summit two weekends ago, while leaders exchanged assurances of economic cooperation, one issue was left ambiguous: that of human rights. Many had expectations that a human rights committee, an issue long neglected by ASEAN,...
Public consultation on the proposed ASEAN Human Rights Body
Mar. 6 | For the first time in 42 years of ASEAN’s existence, we see ASEAN member countries working towards a regional human rights body. It has not been an easy road. Civil society groups in the region have been active in giving inputs to influence the outcome...
US State Department on S’pore’s Human Rights record
Feb. 27 | Excerpted from the US State Dept website. Released on the 25th of Feb 2009. Singapore is a parliamentary republic in which the People’s Action Party (PAP), in power since 1959, overwhelmingly dominates politics. The population was approximately...
Dissident urges Obama to push Singapore on rights
Jan. 22 | From the International Herald Tribune: A Singapore opposition leader has called on President Barack Obama to take steps to encourage the island nation’s government to stop committing human rights abuses. Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the Singapore...
Everything must pass
Dec. 18 | Timothy Tan Why authoritarianism in Asia has met its death knell In 1997, the American political journal The New Republic ran an article by Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen. In the article, bluntly titled Human Rights and Asian Values (1),...
What Open Your Eyes to Human Rights?
Dec. 12 | UDHR 60 Yrs: What Image Opened Your Eyes to Human Rights? *** See related posts
Write For Rights – Human Rights Day (Dec 10)
Dec. 8 | From Margaret John, Coordinator for Singapore and Malaysia Amnesty International Friends, Sixty years ago,in the wake of the horrendous cruelty committed during the Second World War, the world was determined to end human rights violations. In...
Singapore does uphold human rights’ norms
Dec. 4 | Koh Jie Kai / Senior Writer As a Ms Dell Butler noted in the Straits Times forum a few months ago, there has been plenty of defensiveness with respect to our long-standing coolness towards human rights, with Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew claiming that...
Human Rights Anniversary – U60 launches series of events
Dec. 1 | SINGAPORE JOINS THE WORLD IN COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Some 20 groups and associations have come together to commemorate a series of events over a period of more than three weeks, starting from...
Payback time?
Aug. 14 | Leong Sze Hian / Columnist I refer to media reports that at least three Burmese activists were forced to leave Singapore after authorities decided not to review their visas, and that three Burmese Singapore permanent residents (PRs) will not be allowed...
Don’t beat down activists
Aug. 12 | Below is a letter which Gerald Giam wrote to My Paper in response to the paper’s article on politics and the Olympics by its sports editor, Chia Han Keong. Gerald’s letter has not been published. ——- Dear Editor, I was disappointed to...
No teeth, but a sharp tongue
Jul. 18 | Whether the human rights body we establish will have teeth, I don’t know. But it would certainly have a tongue, and I hope it would have a sharp tongue. Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo (TODAY)
