1265710_591061837618151_2146834346_o. MARUAH invites you to a Public Consultation on ASEAN. This is an opportunity to become more familiar with ...
The paper studies the extent of voter confidence in ballot secrecy in Singapore elections and offers way to ensure that secrecy can be enhanced. On the basis of empirical evidence gathered from two surveys, MARUAH is setting out the view that a significant share of Singapore voters – ...
The ballot papers are placed into locked metal boxes, which are sealed. This is witnessed by the competing political parties, and they sign the seals. These locked boxes are stored in the Supreme Court vault for six months, in case any party wishes to challenge the results. These lock...
As part of MARUAH’s election watch project in relation to GE2011, MARUAH seeks to validate that the polling process is indeed conducted in a free and fair manner, with voters feeling secure that their votes are secret. MARUAH had previously requested the Elections Dept permit MARUAH v...
The AHRD is limiting. The AHRD allows the provisions to be limited by the national laws of the ASEAN member states. As such the absolute rights of the people under international human rights law will be restricted by the particularities in some national laws, limiting the universality...
MARUAH organised a seminar on the Internal Security Act (ISA) on 22nd October 2011, as part of its human rights education initiative, to facilitate members of the public to learn more about the ISA. Assistant Professor Jack Lee from the School of Law, Singapore Management University, ...
1. The draft of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration needs to be shared with the people of ASEAN before it gets concretised any further. This is important as it signals that ASEAN governments are prepared to be open, transparent and accountable to the people – three important characteri...
MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of r...
MARUAH is conducting an election watch project. Part of this project includes monitoring the election coverage by the mainstream media, specifically the Straits Times, TODAY and The New Paper. (We are unable to cover the other languages and other media, e.g. TV and radio, because of r...
