(Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur/Singapore) The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Southeast Asian Centre for e-Media (SEACeM) and Think Centre register our serious concern at the introduction of a licensing regime to regulate online news sites by the Media Development Authority (MDA), an agency under the Ministry of Communications and [ Read more ]

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) strongly condemned the detention and prosecution by the Singapore authorities against the bus drivers who went on strike over a wage dispute on 26 and 27 November 2012. The Bangkok-based regional human rights organisation, representing 47 NGOs in 16 countries across Asia, further called for their immediate [ Read more ]

18th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council Item 6: Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Plenary on Singapore Thank you, Madam President. The government of Singapore’s central argument during the UPR Working Group session on 6 May 2011 was that a “balance” between economic prosperity and restrictions on fundamental rights and freedoms are necessary in [ Read more ]

(7 May 2011, Geneva/Singapore) – On the eve of Singapore’s most hotly contested Parliamentary elections, the country underwent its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process which involves a review of the human rights records of all 192 UN member States once every four years under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council. During [ Read more ]

FORUM-ASIA, together with its members in Malaysia and Singapore, SUARAM and Think Centre, and other NGOs, appeal for your support in campaigning for clemency for Yong Vui Kong, a Malaysian arrested in Singapore for drug trafficking when he was 18 years old. On January 2009, the Singapore court delivered the death sentence to Yong, which [ Read more ]

(Bangkok, 25 June 2010) The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) denounces the imposition of the death penalty in January 2009 on Mr. Yong Vui Kong, 22 years old, for trafficking 47 grams of diamorphine (heroin). Despite his appeal to the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Malaysian national’s plea against the mandatory death sentence was dismissed on 14 May [ Read more ]

FORUM-ASIA member Think Centre issued the statement below on 16 May 2010 calling for moratorium on death penalty. Please click here to sign their online petition. We believe any humane criminal justice system could not continue to justify the retention of the death penalty based on retribution. The eradication of the supply of the drugs [ Read more ]