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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19 in Southeast Asia: non-citizens have a right to protection too
Arbitrary differentiation between citizen and non-citizen is causing migrants to suffer the worst of the pandemic.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWill the ‘Singapore model’ survive the pandemic?
How long can a migrant-driven city like Singapore be sustained with closed borders?
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Published in: HomeDrug offences: states must acknowledge the flawed logic at the heart of the regime itself
As the world turns its back on the death penalty for drug offences, the US looks to the extreme fringe.
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Published in: 50.50The long road to gender equality in southeast Asia
Singapore may soon elect its first female president – but the struggle for gender equality in the region is far from...
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Published in: HomeBack to the future: the rebirth of a classical approach to democracy and education in a post-modern society
Education – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and...
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Published in: HomeAs Singapore prepares to execute Kho Jabing this Friday, activists are fighting back
"It's as if the law didn’t take his life seriously at all": the last clemency granted to a death row inmate was in...
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Published in: HomeAsia at the crossroads
Aside from China, nearly all the states in Asia make use of the trappings of democracy, such as elections,...
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Published in: Participation NowComplaints Choir: what is it?
"This project stays dynamic when people take the Complaints Choir as a tool and make use of it in their own context...
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Published in: HomeGlobe-trotting universities serve diplomacy and markets, not democracy
American liberal arts colleges are embracing collaborations with authoritarian regimes worldwide, with implications...
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Published in: HomeA Singapore Ramayana: academic freedom and the liberal arts curriculum
Could Singaporeans of the future do a better job at making democracy a reality than America’s elected leaders have...
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Published in: HomeYale, Singapore and the power of a university
The recent announcement of the president of Yale University to the effect that he will step down from his office...
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Published in: HomeStakeholders of goodwill: neither the "salad bowl" nor the "melting pot"
Meaningful stakeholders in the collective, each becoming reasonable people of goodwill - this is the model for...
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Published in: HomeRegulating sexual citizenship in Singapore
Since 1985, the state has manifested a steady trend towards greater awareness of the need to show respect for...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job