(Geneva) – Singapore should accept recommendations from other states on crucial civil and political rights issues given during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process at the United Nations Human Rights Council, Human Rights said today. The UPR, a peer review process each country undergoes every four years to ascertain its progress on human rights, concludes its first examination of Singapore on September 22, 2011.
Despite multiple calls at the council for Singapore to repeal the Internal Security Act and other preventive detention laws, to impose a moratorium on capital punishment, and to eliminate caning as a form of punishment, the government has shown little inclination to reform, Human Rights Watch said. Instead it has refused to adopt human rights treaties or change abusive laws, often without explanation. Full story
