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The ministers and top civil servants, current salary is $1.2 million, plus pension of about 50% of their salary for those aged 55 with 8 years service, [pensionable ministers receive both salary and pension].

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Letters

Close widening income gap; do more to help the poor
Gilbert Goh

Singapore's poor turn to temples to fill bellies. Most are elderly or labourers, in a country that has the second highest GDP per capita in Asia after Japan but ranks alongside the Philippines and Guatemala for income disparity.

Govt's call for greater civic role has clear limits
Low Tzer Kai

The Government's calls for greater diversity and inclusiveness stop short of allowing genuine political debate and contestation.

Time to temper focus on monetary rewards
Leong Sze Hian

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New Challenges: A dark cloud is looming in our horizon!

This must be the time the government loosen up its grip on all aspect of society and trust its own people that they too want a better Singapore for all and are capable of making significant contributions.

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University Bookshop Takes "Self-Censorship" Off Shelf

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Singapore Human Rights Report 2001 submitted to United Nations by Think Centre

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Human Rights Report 2002
Publications

Self-Censorship: Singapore's Shame  SHAME Magazine
The Political Dimensions of the Economic Crisis  Publish and Perish: The Censorship of Opposition Party Publications in Singapore
Young Vietnam: Doi Moi's Children   Democratic Transitions in Asia
Internet Politics - Surveillance and Intimidation in Singapore  September 11 & Political Freedom - Asian Perspectives

News Monday, 08 September, 2008

News
 CSO demand ASEAN to set up ASEAN Convention on Human Rights

(Forum Asia)
16 August 2008

7 August 2008, Jakarta, sixty-nine civil society organizations representing human rights, women, children, migrant workers and indigenous rights movement in the region end the three-day consultation and agree to call for ASEAN to create a human rights mechanism that can fully promote, protect and fulfill human rights.

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Breaking News
 Think Centre National Day Message 2008

(Think Centre)
08 August 2008

A more compassionate society in a global city of opportunities for Singaporeans

by Sinapan Samydorai

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Features
 Asean must move on Human Rights

(Bangkok Post)
20 July 2008

The Asean human rights body now in its formative stages should not be merely a window dressing mechanism; it should be able to carry out significant monitoring, investigation, and protection work, and should be empowered to conduct fact-finding missions and access human rights victims.

by POKPONG LAWANSIRI

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Features
 IBA - Singapore should free courts from govt influence

(Reuters)
13 July 2008

The International Bar Association's human rights arm expressed concern over the limitations of freedom of expression and the independence of Singapore courts.

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News
 Singapore: Violation of Trade Union Rights 2007

(ITUC)
06 July 2008

Under an amendment to the Trade Unions Act adopted on April 20, 2004, union members no longer have the power to accept or reject collective agreements negotiated between their union representatives and the employer.

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Other News [ News | Features | Opinions | Scoops ]

Singapore: Some 3.4 per cent of children are malnourished (06-Jul-2008)

Singapore: Poverty looms in Isle of Riches (06-Jul-2008)

RTD on ACSC 4 and ASEAN Peoples' Charter Process  (12-Jun-2008)

Five lives lost, no one responsible?  (10-Jun-2008)

Dr.Chee Soon Juan's game plan (10-Jun-2008)

Singapore: Restrictions Follow Critics to Cyberspace (10-Jun-2008)

AI REPORT 2008- Singapore (10-Jun-2008)

Income Gap: The different faces of Singapore (04-May-2008)

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Series

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Interim Singapore Working Group

29 September 2007

Round Table discussion on ASEAN@40 Series of Events, Singapore Working Group for ASEAN, ASEAN Charter and ACSC-3

Articles:
Signing of the ASEAN Charter Set to Become a Tragic Farce
The future of human rights in Asean
40th Anniversary Highlights the Need to Set ASEAN on a New Path
The Draft ASEAN Charter: Is it people-centred?
Draft ASEAN Charter must be distributed to the people
ASEAN: Need for Greater Civil Society Involvement
THE ASEAN CHARTER: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
ASEAN Civil Society Conference
Interim Singapore Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
Civil Society Consultation: Creating a Truly People-Centred ASEAN Community
The Interim Singapore Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
RoundTable Discussion on
Establishing an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism
Peace Boat: Happy Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi
Civil society kicks off ASEAN Charter involvement (belatedly)
 
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Human Rights Watch Series:
Death Penalty in Singapore

25 April 2005

June 2001, Think Centre begins to raise public awareness on the death penalty issue.

Sign Petition Singapore: Calls for immediate moratorium on the death penalty

April 2005, Think Centre reaffirms call for a moratorium on death penalty and to commute all death sentences to imprisonment. Think Centre calls on the government to remove the mandatory capital punishment for simple possession of drugs. The mandatory death sentence must be removed. Singapore is believe to have the world's highest per capita execution rate,relative to its population.

Articles:
Singapore opposed the call for a moratorium on death-penalty
There Is More To The Death Penalty Debate
What does PERC have to do with Death Penalty!
AI reports on Singapore executions, human rights
The question of the death penalty
Think Centre calls for a moratorium on Death Penalty
Singapore activists vow to keep fire burning against death penalty
S'pore frees German drug offender
Jakarta: Protest against Death Penalty in Singapore
Singapore finally finds a voice in death row protest
HUNG AT DAWN: Concert Against Death Penalty
Static Art Display: Hung at Dawn Concert
Poem: Hung at Dawn
SINGAPORE: Two Africans sentenced to death
Singapore: Government defends mandatory death penalty
World Day Against the Death Penalty
Two Indonesian Domestic Workers Escape the Death Penalty
Hung at Dawn: Police Ban Sam's Face
6th May Candlelit Vigil
The Death Penalty – An Irrational Debate
Think Centre: Reaffirms Call for Moratorium on executions
The family and children of Shanmugam Murugesu
Suspected Drug Trafficker Free to Do Business
13 May 2005: Shanmugam to be hanged at 6am
President unable to accede for constititional court hearing
Think Centre calls for Constitutional Court decision and Moratorium on death penalty
Shanmugam Murugesu will be hanged: 13 May 2005
Singapore: President rejects clemency for Shanmugam
Death-row detainee Shanmugam:
2 hanged and there are 8 more
Death Penalty: SAVE THE LIFE OF SHANMUGAM MURUGESU
A PLEA TO SAVE THE LIFE
Govt criticized AI's report on Death Penalty: J.B.Jeyaretnam comments
Death Penalty: Latest worldwide statistics released
Malaysia: Is Capital Punishment Justified?
JAPAN: Death Penalty and the Media
BHUTAN: Capital punishment abolished
India: The debate on death penalty
Death Penalty: NGUYEN, Vietnamese refugee-cum-scout
Singapore struggles with image as executioner
Singapore: Death Penalty should be commuted to imprisonment
Death Penalty: Nguyen Tuong Van appeals
Two More to Hang in Singapore
Death Penalty
S'pore: Capital punishment soars
J.B.Jeyaretnam Calls for a Criminal Cases Review Commission
Think Centre Calls for a moratorium on Death Penalty
SINGAPORE: Death Penalty - Julaiha Begum (f), aged 52, faces imminent execution after her appeal for presidential clemency has been denied.
Singapore: High execution rate shrouded in secrecy
Singapore Death Penalty Shrouded In Silence
Singapore:
Indian migrant worker facing execution
Death penalty: The Unconstitutional Punishment
COURT DISMISSES DEATH-ROW APPEAL
Was innocent man hanged due to procedure?
Death Penalty: The Silence is Deafening and Disturbing
Zulfikar bin Mustaffah to be Hanged this Friday
Death Penalty Case Gets an Airing in Parliament
Drug Addicts and Death Penalty in Singapore
The Death Penalty in Southeast Asia
Death Penalty: Information needed on Death Sentence and Execution Statistics in Singapore this year
Clemency Plea to the President of Singapore
Zulfikar bin Mustaffah is a Drug Addict but NOT a Drug Trafficker!
Imminent Execution, 30 May 2001, Zulfikar bin Mustaffah, Aged 32, Unemployed
 
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Singapore:
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Sign Petition
Calling for Moratorium on the death penalty

NO TO DEATH PENALTY

Hanged

Amara Tochi:26 Jan 2007

Took Leng How:3 Nov 2006

Nguyen Tuong Van:2 Dec 2005

Shanmugam:13 May 2005

Vignes Mourthi: 26 Sept 2003

Arunprakash:3 Oct 2003

Mohammed Ali Hashim:11 Jan 2002
Mohammed Afzal Khan:11 Jan 2002

Zulfikar: 28 Sept 2001

Julaiha Begum: 16 Jan 2001
Quotes

"The future is not something hidden in a corner. The future is something we build in the present."

- Paulo Freire
Human Rights Watch

UN committee votes for moratorium on the death penalty

United Nations General Assembly’s third committee, which deals with human rights issues, voted 99 to 52, with 33 abstentions, in favour of the resolution. The resolution will now go before the full 192-member Assembly for a vote next month. ASEAN countries must respect the right to life and vote for the global moratorium on the death penalty.

Give judges discretion to set aside death penalty

Think Centre supports the call to remove the mandatory capital punishment for all cases including simple possession of drugs. The laws have to be changed to permit judicial discretion and fairness for all cases.
Human Rights Education

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES

A summary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -in child friendly language.

International Youth Day

Media Watch

Singapore's media drops from 146th to 154th

In Singapore, the vast majority of journalists practice self-censorship rather than risk being charged with defamation.

Singapore bans film about ex-political prisoner
TANALEE SMITH

Policy Watch

Growing underclass in 'Lion City'
Hamish MacDonald

Singapore's government has now acknowledged there is a problem and in this year's budget it introduced what it calls "bold" new welfare payments.

HOW MANY PORTIONS OF HELP, Sir?
Jasmine Yin and Gracia Chiang
Labour Watch

Low-wage workers do not contribute to CPF
Jasmine Yin

FOR sweeping and mopping two storeys of a Raffles Place building four hours a day, 51-year-old Michael Chan pockets $380 a month —about half of his monthly expenses like food and transport.

Statement on the ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers
Election Watch

East Timor : Coalition talks begin following polls

The election followed a year of violence and political turmoil in East Timor. While Fretilin's led the election, the vote share plummeted from the 57 percent it took in the 2001 election.

East Timor votes to heal 'broken' nation
ASEAN Watch
 

Creating ASEAN rights body not easy: Singapore

Rights activists fear ASEAN could end up establishing a toothless mechanism.

Limited time to salvage the Asean Charter
Kavi Chongkittavorn

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