Scoop News, 7 May 2011While many developing countries commended the successes that Singapore has demonstrated in providing its citizens with high levels of economic and social development, a number of recommendations on key areas of human rights were made during the review, particularly: on establishing an independent national human rights institution in compliance with the Paris Principles; ensuring the right to adequate housing for low income persons and families; repealing criminal defamation and censorship legislations to ensure the full enjoyment of freedoms of expression, assembly and association; reviewing preventive detention laws to guarantee the rights to legal counsel and fair trial for detainees; imposing a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty; as well as a diverse range of recommendations on the protection of the rights of migrant workers, including amending legislative frameworks to ensure their adequate working conditions and a prohibition of corporal punishment for those undocumented. Full story
