Critical Analysis Of Human Rights Policies In Singapore: An Essay.

Do human rights treaties make a difference?.

Constitutional rights and proportionality?

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Do we need a legal procedure?

Do human rights treaties make a difference?

The human rights policy is one of the most significant policies available in Singapore. It enables to integrate the right to equality, to oppose unethical activities, to oppose unlawful torture, to oppose illegal arresting and to deny fair public trial. Ethical duty of the human rights policies is to care for the basic rights and requirements of the people under the supervision of the constitution. The ethical duty of the human rights policy is to forbid any illegal actions against any individual. Moreover, it opposes any harsh punishments against any individual without concrete evidence. The human rights of Singapore strongly condemn any abuse of human rights. The human rights policy also opposes any unlawful killing, genocide or cruel action against any civilian. Moreover, the regulations also mandate mandatory caning for heinous offenses like human trafficking, rape and robbery. Human rights acts also secure the prisoner’s right to get proper healthcare treatments. The administration should assure health-protective cells for the prisoners. Thus, human rights must integrate all the legal rights of each individuals  of the society.

The casual factors determine the issues that promote policy problems. It includes illegal arresting, detainees in treatment, denial of fair trial, unlawful interference with the privacy of individual, family, home or correspondence, restrictions in a cultural event and inappropriate assembly and association. Apart from that, the casual factors also include religious restrictions, torture and other inhuman socio-political treatments. The ethical application of human rights acts appreciates all these casual factors and promises to maintain all the legal rights section of human rights. The ethical aspects of human rights oppose any inhuman behaviour. Moreover, all the social and domestic acts of violence are condemned by human rights acts. The aforesaid causal factors can be considered as threats to the ethical considerations of human rights. Moreover, it violates the legal rights of human rights policies.

The stakeholders involved in the issue are each individual of the society irrespective of their social, cultural, political, religious and linguistic background, the officials of local government, departmental heads of government officials and the people who are affected by inhuman actions. The human rights are the most widely spread social policy which is strongly concerned about the basic and legal rights of each individual. The legal bodies of government and the social individuals affected by inhuman acts are the stakeholders of the human rights acts. The rules and regulations of human rights oppose the inhuman acts and initiate legal steps against for the moral purpose.  

Constitutional rights and proportionality?

The legislative requirements of public policies are as follows:

• Singapore's 2011 Universal Periodic Review was imposed to maintain all the legal requirements of the human rights policy.
• Article 100 of the ad-hoc constitutional tribunal of reviewed the constituency laws regarding the baseline of human rights acts
• The Public Order Act (2009) has qualified all the legal ethics of human rights which assures the basic and civil rights of each of the individual of the nation("Legislation" 2019)
• Chapter 43 of the Civil Law Act assures the strong application of the basic rights of all the individuals irrespective of their demographic background. Moreover, this also persists the basic human rights.

Human rights policies are the most prevalent concepts for people around the world. This concept has developed opposing all the illegal and inhuman activities of human beings. The development of human rights is concerned with mitigating all the inhuman and heinous activities. The inhuman activities include social violence, family violence, breaking of human rights, inhuman tortures, and unethical punishments, invading to the basic rights of the human beings and opposing the legal rights of the human beings. The human rights policies are developed by the local governments and members of the legislative assemblies concerning the maintenance of the ethical perspectives of human beings. The human rights policies help to maintain all the legal rights of each individual irrespective of their socio-cultural and demographic background. The human rights issues were developed in Singapore after the end of the general elections of Singapore in the year 2015. Hence the legal adaptations of the human right policies were started in the year 2016 (Paulus 2014). The human rights policies in Singapore opposes human trafficking, illegal detention in the legal procedure and sustains freedom of expression, freedom of speech, respecting civil liberties to each of the human beings and legal rights to the judicial procedure. Apart from that, the human rights of Singapore opposes the unlawful interference to the legal privacy of the individual and family, helps to sustain the rights of the trial procedures, denied the public trial, opposes the arbitrary arrests and detentions, proposes for the development of the prison conditions, opposes the human tortures and genocide and mass killing. The existence of the human rights policies in Singapore helps to mitigate the inhuman behaviors with any individuals.

The unavoidable fact is that the increase of social and domestic violence is considered as the ultimate targets or the people of Singapore. The mitigation of the violence and illegal activities are ultimate concerns of the human rights of Singapore. Section 23A of the Public Order Act (2009) has determined to secure all the civil rights of human beings. The civil rights include right to equality, right to education, right to healthcare secure and right to legal procedures. Thus, it is the ethical duty of the civil authorities of the nation to controlthe security forces over the over the significant legal issues.

It is necessary for the policymakers to enforce all the human rights policies to nullify both the social, domestic and individual injustice. The proper implementation of the human rights legislation and section 34 of Public Order Act (2009) ensures the individuals of the state to secure their basic rights to social opportunities and all the ethical aspects of human rights policies.

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The policy alternatives state the legal initiatives and actions that are to be implemented to address the resolve the human rights issues Singapore. The alternative policies which are to be implemented for the betterment of the human beings can be differentiated into four sections which include respect for the individual integrity, respect for the civil liberties, freedom for the participation in the political process and corruption fewer government.

The human rights policies must be developed in order to mitigate the unlawful activities. The law must be prevailed to assure that no unlawful activities should be entertained and must be condemned with the highest priority.  The human rights policies must assure zero tolerance to any kind of unlawful killings and genocides. However, the response to the illegal killings should be replied respecting the existing rules and regulations of the nations. Apart from that, human rights acts must oppose illegal disappearances. The illegal disappearances state kidnapping and abduction activities. The human rights policies must assure human beings to be safe from any illegal disappearances.  

Human rights on cruel or inhuman activities: The human rights practices have mandated for long term imprisonment on account of the illegal activities like human trafficking, drug trafficking, robbery and physical auscultation of women. The law has also assured canning for the judicial misbehaviour. Apart from that, human rights acts of Singapore have also ensured that the death sentence may not be applicable for the men over 50, women and girls and boys under 16 due to unavoidable healthcare circumstances.

Human rights on prison and detention centre condition: It enables the prisoners to file any complaints against the jail authorities for misbehaviour or detention. It is seen that prisoners are often brutally treated in prisons. The prisoners may file against the ill-treatment of the jail authorities and lodge complaints against the ill-treatment. In those cases, the criminal charges may be supposed on the government official for misconduct towards their duty  The board of justice appointed to care the wellbeing of the prisoners must be concerned about all these charges against the government officials filed by the prisoners.

Role of the security apparatus: the role of the security apparatus is to control all the activities over the police and militant forces. The misuse of power form the police sand militants are the most common incidents presently in Singapore which has affected the legal rights of human beings. The security apparatus has the sole responsibility to control the armed force4 of the nation by limiting the use of their weapon. This can be considered the most effective techniques to mitigate all the legal allegations against the police and militants and sustains the basic rights of human beings.  

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Arrest procedures and treatment detainees: the arrest procedure must maintain all the legal rights of the state constitutions. Moreover, it must not violate the ethical dignity of the individuals before the establishment of the allegation against the person. Thus, a legal warrant is always required to arrest an individual. Moreover, the arrested criminal must be sent for the judicial procedure within 48 hours of arresting. The human rights policies strongly oppose any delay in starting the legal proceedings against the accused person and he must be given sufficient opportunity to establish the truths against him. However, the ISA, criminal laws and CLA accused criminals are permitted to be arrested immediate basis without the legal warrant and they may be detained for the further proceedings of judicial trials .

 Denial of fair public trial: The denial of the fair public trial determines the effectiveness of the individual judiciary for judicial independence and reviews. The ethical considerations of the human rights policy are permitted to enforce the rules and regulations which endorse the constitutional rights for the accused persons. The human rights policies also allow them a fair judicial trial.

Fair trial procedure; This allows the fair trial procedures where both the parties would get sufficient opportunities to express there is over certain issues. Moreover, both the parties are allowed to submit their evidence for the legal trial. The human rights act opposes the public trials as it contradicts the ethical regulations of theright to privacy in a judicial trial. The defendants are allowed to present their attorney to defendallthe allegations against him. Moreover, the human rights policies also allow the opportunity of further appeal for the dependants.  

Unlawful interferences: The human rights policies strongly oppose any violations of the privacy acts on the part of the government. According to human rights, the privacy rights of each of the individuals must be protected with the highest priority. The government should respect the individual and family priority of all the state individuals and does not allow any interference to basic privacy rights. The moral policing and hacking other information are considered to be offensive to the basic privacy rights of human beings. Moreover, any violation of the basic rights of privacy is highly condemnable.

Freedom of expression: The freedom of expression is considered as the most valuable part of maintaining the respectful attitude to the civil liberties. The freedom of expression signifies the freedom to state anything over any impactful incident. Moreover, people can act according to their socio-cultural, demographic and religious preferences without any negation from the government. Human rights secure the basic rights of human beings to enjoy their religious and social festivals. The freedom of expression also expresses the freedom of the press and media. The media are considered to be the backbone of democracy. Thus, the media must be given an opportunity to express their opinion properly. The human rights policies ensure that the government should not reduce the media's right to expression as media play a crucial role in developing idea and opinion among the common people. Thus, censorship over any freedom of expression should be considered as unethical according to the human rights policy of Singapore.

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Internet freedo:; The internet freedom is most contemporary human rights policy. Presently, the internet is used for the official purpose, domestic purpose, and socialpurpose. Any censorship on using the internet can put an adverse effect on the daily activities and can be impactful for the social and financial growth of the nation. It is unethical to condemn the use of the internet. Moreover, the human rights policy states the government should not invade the preferences of the individual internet browsing. The censorship or banning on internet browsing can be identified as the violation of the civil rights of human beings.  

Academic freedom and freedom movement: The academic freedom determines the freedom for educations and academic accession irrespective of their demographic background. The human rights policies of Singapore assure the accession of all the people from different background to any public academies like schools, college and government, and non-government organizations. The biases must not be endorsed in this context.

The freedom movement assures the citizen to move anywhere in the country without any additional permission or legal obligations. The human rights policies depict that government should assure all sorts of security. The individual should not be detained for any kind of legal obligations without any valid reasons.

This assures that the citizen may express their political preferences. The government and legal authorities must have respectful attitudes to the political opinions of each of the citizen. The Civil Rights Act (1991) strictly oppose the application of force to change the political opinion of any of the citizen.

The corruption is one of the biggest legal issues of Singapore. For example- the Kobi Krishna Ayavoo was charged for nine corruption issues. The rules and regulations of human rights acts strongly opposes corruption in maintaining a government. The legal demand of human rights organizations is clean government and safe government.

Human rights are one o the biggest issues presently. Singapore has witnessed several incidents which have not adhered basic human rights. The recommendations for human rights issues are as follows:

• All the legal aspects of the human rights acts must be enforced by the government properly
• Section 23 of the Civil Rights Act (1991) must be followed properly to secure the human rights for the women and in the society properly
• The police and government officials should be concerned about treating the criminals in a legal way and must follow the proper judicial process
• The government should not invade the basic privacy requirements of the common people.

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