Human Rights Watch Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Singapore
October 2020
Introduction
Human Rights Watch submits the following information regarding Singapore’s implementation of recommendations received and accepted following its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in 2016. The major human rights issues raised in this submission are a continuation of many of the concerns raised during the last review. While Singapore agreed to improve its legal instruments in the field of human rights and social protection[1] and to further include international human rights norms into its national legislation,[2] there has been very little progress in this regard. The government continues to use overly broad laws restricting freedom of speech to prosecute critical speech or to label it as false or “fake,” and the right to peaceful assembly remains severely restricted.
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Singapore 2020 will go down in history as the year we spent more time at home and online than ever, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. While we grappled with the pandemic and all the changes it brought, the Circuit Breaker, the GE, the continued rise of Blackpink and BTS, here are the people who caught our attention.
1. The Leader of the Opposition
At this point, we can safely say that 2020 is the year of Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh, who was designated as the country’s first Leader of the Opposition. The naysayers who once doubted that Mr Singh could fill the spot once held by the venerable Low Thia Khiang must have been eating their words, as the WP Chief has grown in substance this year, with nary a misstep.