“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 …
“The case for a society of polyglots”
Vinita Ramani Mohan 28 April 2012 Straits Times TIMOR Leste recently held peaceful and fair elections, the results of which prompted an article exchange between Singaporean associate professor Victor Savage from the National University of Singapore and the …
“ECCC resignations spell trouble for victims’ justice”
Vinita Ramani Mohan 30 June 2009 Phnom Penh Post Dear Editor, I read today that Robert Petit, international co-prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), has resigned from his post due to “personal and family reasons”. This year has gotten off to a bad start for …
” Survivors need a reason to live ; As Khmer Rouge victims come to terms with the Duch sentence, a Singapore-based couple is bringing a picture of hope to Cambodians”
Mahdev Mohan and Vinita Ramani Mohan 31 July 2010 TODAY (Singapore) In 2008, Singapore lawyer Mahdev Mohan and his wife, ex-journalist Vinita, set up Access to Justice Asia to represent Cambodian minorities in the war crimes trials of senior Khmer Rouge leaders. Mr Mahdev, 31, is the first Asian …
“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 …
“SINGAPORE-ASEAN”
“SINGAPORE PROFESSOR TO LEAD REGIONAL STUDY ON HUMAN RIGHTS” Zakaria Abdul Wahab 21 September 2010 Bernama Daily Malaysian News -– A Singapore law professor from the Singapore Management University (SMU) will lead a research project …
“Report to examine status of human rights in ASEAN”
Thomas Miller 29 September 2010 Phnom Penh Post THE recently established Human Rights Resource Centre for ASEAN has announced that it has embarked on a study analysing the legal framework supporting human rights in ASEAN’s 10 member states, an early step in the efforts of …