Following the recent court ruling Amnesty International, ILGA Asia, the International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch call on the Singapore Parliament to repeal Section 377A and uphold the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex individuals. (more…)
In order to improve respect for the rights of workers in Southeast Asia, the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), together with the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), will launch a new Guidance on Freedom of Association of Workers in ASEAN. (more…)
Today, ICJ and nine others organizations called on the Government of Singapore to withdraw the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Bill (‘FICA’). FICA’s provisions contravene international legal and human rights principles – including the rights to freedom of expression, association, participation in public affairs, and privacy – and will further curtail civic space, both online and offline. […]
The Singapore government has used the non-human rights compliant Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019 (POFMA) to arbitrarily restrict the right to freedom of expression and information online, the ICJ said in a new legal briefing published today. (more…)
Amidst emerging threats to civic space, representatives from civil society called on Singapore’s Government to abide by its international legal obligations and commitments to respect fundamental freedoms in a Human Rights Council side event. (more…)
The decision by the High Court of Singapore ordering blogger Leong Sze Hian to pay Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong SG$133,000 (approx. USD$98,765) in a defamation suit over the sharing of an article on Facebook continues the country’s troubling trend of restricting online freedom of expression, the ICJ said today. (more…)
