Crimes against helpless domestic workers
Even wild animals would not treat their preys the way these three adults treat this young helpless domestic worker from Myanmar. The crimes committed against foreign domestic workers have worsened since the early 1980s when Filipinos came to work as domestic workers. The worst abuses I handled as a lawyer then was sexual abuse....
The relevence of Community Development Councils ( CDCs)
Denise Phua Personally, I am very glad that issues about the relevence of Community Development Councils ( CDCs) and the ridiculousness level of mayors' salaries etc got an airing in Parliament yesterday. I believe that I am not alone. Few points. I have read carefully Denise Phua's (DP) response to what Pritam Singh raised...
The domestic worker from Myanmar who was tortured and murdered in Singapore
This is Piang Ngaih Don, the domestic worker from Myanmar who was tortured and murdered in Singapore by her employers. I say this again, and it bears repeating: What kind of "first-world" country are we when we think that a basic, human need to have time to oneself is somehow a privilege, or something which someone else (our...
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