Community Sentencing: A Positive Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System
A number of alternatives to custodial sentences have been introduced in the Indian criminal justice system, with progress being made over time towards open prisons, probation, and rehabilitation centres. Yet...
LGBTQ+ Rights as Administrative Law? Tang Seng Kee v. Attorney-General
Image description: Protesters at Singapore holding boards reading “LGBT Rights are Human Rights”, “Stop Invisibilising Us”, and “Decriminalise LGBT People”. On 28 February 2022, the Singapore Court of Appeal handed...
Singaporean High Court upholds criminalisation of sexual intercourse between consenting males
On 30th March 2020, the High Court of Singapore upheld the constitutionality of Section 377A of the Singapore Penal Code, which criminalises consensual sexual intercourse between men. Broadly, the challenge...
“Insensitive Advertising” of Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore: A Violation of Human Dignity
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower has suspended the licence of an employment agency for advertising the services of foreign domestic workers in an “insensitive” manner which portrayed the workers as a...
Offences Against Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore: Vindicating The Victim’s Right to Dignity
The High Court of Singapore recently increased the sentences of two employers who had starved their foreign domestic worker, causing serious physical injury. In so doing, the court affirmed the...
Two East Asian Approaches to Care
East Asia is home to nearly 180 million people over the age of 65 today, almost as many people as the total population of Western Europe. By 2035, the 65+...
Live Music during Thaipusam Processions in Singapore: Developments in the Law on Freedom of Religion
In Singapore, due to the 2009 Public Order Act, public processions require an official permit, which may have conditions attached. In Vijaya Kumar s/o Rajendran v Attorney-General (17 September 2015),...
The History of Human Rights Society in Singapore 1965-2015
2015 marked Singapore’s golden jubilee — the nation of 5.5 million people celebrated 50 years of independence, peace and burgeoning economic growth. But tucked in another corner of the city...
The strange case of Amos Yee: whither free speech and children’s rights in Singapore?
On 27th March 2015 as Singaporeans mourned the death, four days earlier, of former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (often known as LKY), a 16-year-old Singaporean named Amos Yee uploaded...
