The history of human rights society in Singapore : 1965-2015
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The history of human rights society in Singapore : 1965-2015
（Politics in Asia series）
Routledge, 2017
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
To celebrate Singapore's fiftieth anniversary for its independence from Malaysia in 2015, 35 students, academics and activists came together to discuss and write about pioneering Singaporean human rights activists and their under-reported stories in Singapore. The city-state is known for its remarkable economic success while having strict laws on individual freedom in the name of national security, public order and racial harmony. Singapore's tough stance on human rights, however, does not negate the long and persistent existence of a human rights society that is little known to the world until today. This volume, composed of nine distinctive chapters, records a history of human rights activists, their campaigns, main contentions with the government, survival strategies and other untold stories in Singapore's first 50 years of state-building.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgement
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Tracing the History of the Anti-Death Penalty Movements in Singapore
Chapter 2 Inhuman Punishment and Human Rights Activism in the Little Red Dot
Chapter 3 Singapore's Press for Freedom: Between Media Regulation and Activism
Chapter 4 Activism on Arbitrary Detention, the Suspension of Law
Chapter 5 Socio-Economic Rights Activism in Singapore
Chapter 6 Shifting boundaries: state-society relations and activism on migrant worker rights in Singapore
Chapter 7 Against a Teleological Reading of the Advancement of Women's Rights in Singapore
Chapter 8 LGBTQ Activism in Singapore
Chapter 9 Navigating Through the 'Rules' of Civil Society: In search of disability rights in Singapore
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"