“Aid as altruism and realpolitik; Why should the African famine be the responsibility of the West alone?”
Venessa Lee 18 August 2011 TODAY (Singapore) Last week, United States political spouse Jill Biden visited a refugee camp in East Africa. For the tens of thousands of famine victims who trek along Somalia’s “roads of death”, such camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and the Somali capital of …
“ST Forum – Online Story”
“Foreign NGOs: What good will they do?” Vinita Ramani Mohan 14 June 2008 Straits Times I REFER to Wednesday’s article by Ms Theresa Tan, ‘Singapore drawing more non-profit groups’. As a Singaporean who has volunteered and worked abroad with non-profits (NPs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), I …
“Xenophobia, or is it more?”
Vinita Ramani 6 June 2012 TODAY (Singapore) I am not a xenophobe. Let’s get that out of the way. In recent months, the word “xenophobia” has been used to describe Singaporeans on the issue of immigration. The Oxford English Dictionary defines xenophobia as …
“NATURAL RESOURCE REVENUES: Blessing or Curse?”
Post Staff 6 September 2007 Phnom Penh Post The impending development of offshore oil fields recently discovered in Cambodia’s territorial waters, and continuing onshore exploration, may herald significant changes to the country’s economy in the near future. But it remains to be …
“Singapore to send rights report in May 2011 as part of UN periodic review”
30 September 2010 BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific Text of report by Singapore newspaper The Straits Times website on 30 September [Report by Cassandra Chew: "S'pore to submit human rights report"] UN review of Republic’s record next May is part of ongoing process covering all members …
“The part Singapore can play to stop genocide”
Mahdev Mohan 27 November 2010 TODAY (Singapore) Next May, Singapore will be reviewed by the United Nations (UN) Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in Geneva. The UPR is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all …
“Human Rights Institute to be Hosted in Singapore for the First Time”
Distributed by Contify.com 30 June 2011 Singapore Government News Singapore, June 30 — Singapore Management University issued the following news release: For the first time, the prestigious Summer Institute in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights …