“Insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers in Singapore: a violation of human dignity
Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower has suspended the licence of an employment agency for advertising the services of foreign domestic workers in an “insensitive” manner which portrayed the workers as a “commodity that can be bought and sold”. It also prosecuted the agency and the employee responsible...
Saved in:
Main Author: | ONG, Benjamin Joshua |
---|---|
Format: | text |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2018
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2853 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4811/viewcontent/Insensitive_Advertising__of_Foreign_Domestic_Workers_in_Singapore__A_Violation_of_Human_Dignity___OHRH.pdf |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Institution: | Singapore Management University |
Language: | English |
Similar Items
-
Offences against foreign domestic workers in Singapore: Vindicating the victim’s right to dignity
by: ONG, Benjamin Joshua
Published: (2017) -
Beyond informality, claiming dignity
by: Recio, Redento B., et al.
Published: (2008) -
Managing female foreign domestic workers in Singapore: Economic pragmatism, coercive legal regulation, or human rights
by: TAN, Eugene K. B.
Published: (2010) -
Human dignity in Asia : Dialogue between law and culture, Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu ed., Cambridge University Press 2022, 480 pp.
by: CHNG, Kenny, et al.
Published: (2024) -
Compensation for abused foreign domestic workers: A problem of enforcement
by: ONG, Benjamin Joshua
Published: (2020)