Rights

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • May 20, 2020 • 6 min read

Philippines press freedom Embattled ABS-CBN’s future shrouded in doubt, but newsroom fights on

By Alexi Demetriadi • May 20, 2020
In the Philippines, the future of ABS-CBN remains uncertain as a decision on whether to allow it to return to air meanders through the nation's political system. But in the newsroom, one of the network's few branches still operating, news chief Ging Reyes says there is a renewed drive and energy

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • May 19, 2020 • 6 min read

Art in Singapore Discussing life, colonialism and migration with poet Theophilus Kwek

By Miriam Deprez • May 19, 2020
Ahead of the release of his upcoming book of poetry Moving House, award-winning Singaporean writer Theophilus Kwek sits down with the Globe to discuss the themes of colonialism, politics, racism and migration that all served as inspiration for his latest work

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • May 13, 2020 • 7 min read

Refugee rights Once a safe haven, anti-Rohingya sentiment in Malaysia is growing

By Andrew Haffner • May 13, 2020
Malaysia, once a safe haven for thousands of Rohingya, is witnessing a shift in attitude towards the persecuted and displaced minority group from Myanmar. Fuelled by misinformation and government rhetoric, anti-Rohingya sentiment is growing online

Rights • STORY OF THE DAY • May 08, 2020 • 10 min read

Covid-19 As migrant mental health suffers in Singapore dorms, aid groups rally

By Toh Ee Ming and Kelly Ng • May 08, 2020
As Singapore enters its 5th week of "circuit breaker" mode, the migrant workers quarantined in the city-state's dormitories are suffering under the psychological toll of isolation in squalid conditions and the ever-looming threat of contracting the virus

Rights • May 06, 2020 • 4 min read
Press freedom

Rappler “stands with ABS-CBN” as Philippines largest network forced off air

The Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN has been ordered off air by the government's telecommunications agency. Critics have labelled it a fresh attack on press freedom under President Rodrigo Duterte, while fellow embattled media outlet Rappler say they stand in solidarity
By Miriam Deprez • May 06, 2020

Rights • May 04, 2020 • 4 min read
Vietnamese refugees

Convicted Vietnam refugee fights deportation after 30 years in Hong Kong

Vo Van Hung is one of the last remaining Vietnamese "boat people" in Hong Kong. Three decades after he landed on its shores as a child refugee, he is fighting efforts to deport him to Vietnam now that he has finished a 22-year jail sentence for murder
By Su Xinqi / AFP • May 04, 2020

Rights • May 04, 2020 • 6 min read
Press Freedom Day

Emojis, Minecraft and Spotify: How citizens are beating the censors

As we mark World Press Freedom Day 2020, the world's media outlets are struggling under the pressure of Covid-19 crackdowns. But while the tools available to censors have never been so great, the same is true of the innovative tools available to circumvent them
By Miriam Deprez • May 04, 2020

Rights • Apr 22, 2020 • 10 min read
Myanmar conflict

As donor priorities shift, Myanmar’s refugees are left wanting

As donor priorities shift against the backdrop of Myanmar’s democratic transition, funding for refugee camps along the Thai border has dropped in recent years. Today, the sustainability of projects easing the country's decades-long refugee crisis are in major doubt
By Maggi Quadrini • Apr 22, 2020

Rights • Apr 13, 2020 • 9 min read
Tales of the Pandemic

The view from inside Singapore’s migrant dorms

In April, Singapore put several dormitories housing 20,000 migrant workers under lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, prompting criticism about conditions. Writer and Bangladeshi migrant worker Md Sharif Uddin gives his account from inside
By Md Sharif Uddin • Apr 13, 2020

Rights • Apr 09, 2020 • 10 min read
Singapore inequality

‘We shouldn’t need Covid-19 to see migrant workers’ humanity’

As Singapore's divide between rich and poor is amplified by the Covid-19 crisis, columnist Yong Han Poh argues that it shouldn't take a pandemic to acknowledge the humanity of those who labour, unseen and unheard, to build the city-state
By Yong Han Poh • Apr 09, 2020

Rights • Apr 09, 2020 • 7 min read
Press freedom

Journalism on trial

Independent Filipino news outlet Rappler is under legal fire yet again, this time under a "cyber libel" charge. Free press advocates say this latest criminal case lodged by the government amounts to official harassment
By Samantha McCabe • Apr 09, 2020