It may be timely to consider enacting a comprehensive anti-discrimination law to guide employers’ conduct in hiring, promotion and other employment matters.
In Singapore, there is widespread agreement on the principle that opportunities for work and advancement should be equally available to al...
Join us on Friday, 29 August at 7:30pm for our a roundtable on trafficking. Experts in the field will share their knowledge and experience dealing with trafficking in various contexts.
Our speakers will discuss sex trafficking, labour trafficking and the current StopTraffickingSG Campaign.
Mig...
AWARE and the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) welcome the drafting of the Trafficking In Persons Bill. We are encouraged by the commitment and efforts of the Interagency Taskforce on Trafficking-in-Persons and Member of Parliament Christopher De Souza to combat traffickin...
We, the undersigned, are alarmed by the recent surge of racism and xenophobia in Singapore. They threaten the human rights of all (especially migrants) and the health of our political conversation.
The key to addressing the economic frustrations felt by many Singaporeans is to amend the economi...
Dear Member of Parliament Mr Christopher De Souza and the Inter-Agency Taskforce on Trafficking-in-Persons,
Thank you for hosting the public consultation sessions on the proposed “Prevention of Human Trafficking Bill” between 19 March 2014 and 15 April 2014. Many representatives from civil so...
In the aftermath of recent events in Little India, racist and xenophobic comments are steadily surfacing online and offline, conflating the actions of a few with the culture, habits and tendencies of migrant workers from South Asia in general.
These migrant workers are experiencing a prejudiced cha...
By Corinna Lim and Jolene Tan
Employment must be fair. This simple imperative lies at the heart of the Fair Consideration Framework recently announced by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The new policy takes aim against nationality- based discrimination in employment decisions. But its implication...
By Corinna Lim
For every 1 person that comes into Singapore to replace our shrinking citizenship, 2.5 persons are allowed in as transient workers for pure economic reasons. That is high and this is what the current debate should focus on instead of lumping the economic and demographic issues as on...
Should we ignore the conditions of foreign domestic workers who work behind the closed doors of family homes, and have even fewer opportunities than male migrant workers to voice their concerns, much less organise an “illegal strike”?
By Vivienne Wee
18th December was proclaimed as Interna...
