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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2025/04/01/what-principles-should-be-considered-to-guide-the-boundary-delimitation-process/" rel="bookmark">What principles should be considered to guide the boundary delimitation&nbsp;process?</a></h2>
				<small>1 April 2025</small><br />

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In a 2007 paper published by Dr. Lisa Handley, <a href="https://www.ifes.org/sites/default/files/migrate/4_ifes_challenging_election_norms_and_standards_wp_bndel.pdf">&#8220;Challenging the Norms and Standards of Election Administration: Boundary Delimitation&#8221;</a>, she explained how certain fundamental principles should be considered when setting international election standards to guide the delimitation process.

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<li><strong>Impartiality</strong>: The boundary authority should be a nonpartisan, independent, and professional body;</li>

<li><strong>Equality</strong>: The populations of constituencies should be as equal as possible to<br>provide voters with equality of voting strength;</li>

<li><strong>Representativeness</strong>: Constituencies should be drawn taking into account<br>cohesive communities, defined by such factors as administrative boundaries,<br>geographic features, and communities of interest;</li>

<li><strong>Non-discrimination</strong>: The delimitation process should be devoid of electoral<br>boundary manipulation that discriminates against voters on account of race, color,<br>language, religion, or related status; and</li>

<li><strong>Transparency</strong>: The delimitation process should as transparent and accessible to<br>the public as possible.</li>
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Dr. Handley concluded that &#8220;there is no single best model for delimiting constituency boundaries. The wide variety of delimitation practices, many of them quite successful, attest to this. However, it is important to establish standards to which the delimitation process might aspire, if current practices do not already meet them. These standards will need to be flexible to be relevant to both mature and transitional democracies, but underlying all of them should be the fundamental principles of impartiality, equality, representativeness, nondiscrimination, and transparency.

<p><em>Meeting standards that include an impartial boundary authority (guided by principles like equal voting strength, representativeness, and non-discrimination) as well as a process that is as transparent as possible offers credibility and legitimacy to a process that can have decided political consequences. The table below provides a summary of the principles that should guide the delimitation process and some examples of best practices that meet these standards.</em>&#8220;</p>
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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2025/03/29/electoral-boundary-delimitation-in-singapore/" rel="bookmark">Electoral Boundary Delimitation in&nbsp;Singapore</a></h2>
				<small>29 March 2025</small><br />

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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What is electoral boundary delimitation?</h3>

Boundary delimitation usually refers to the process of drawing electoral district boundaries. However, it can also be used to denote the process of drawing voting areas (also called polling areas, districts or election precincts) for the purposes of assigning voters to polling places. The periodic delimitation of electoral boundaries is necessary in any representative system where single-member districts or uniformly small multi-member districts are used. If electoral boundaries are not periodically adjusted, population inequities develop across districts.

Countries have adopted various methods for delimiting districts. Countries that delimit districts must establish a formal structure and a set of rules for carrying out the delimitation process. In some, the choice of methods is simply a matter of historical tradition, but the delimitation can also be based on a variety of factors that may include the geographic size of the country, its physical features, or its financial resources. Different sets of districts can produce different election outcomes, and even if the underlying vote patterns remain constant, the choice of delimitation practices is important.

<p>Source: <a href="https://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/bd/explore_topic_new">ACE Electoral Knowledge Network</a></p>

<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Observations of electoral boundary delimitation in Singapore</h3>

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<li>Process shrouded in secrecy, i.e. lack of transparency</li>

<li>Unexplained changes in electoral boundaries</li>

<li>Electoral boundaries may not coincide with community boundaries</li>

<li>No public representation on the Electoral Boundary Review Committee (EBRC)</li>
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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2025/03/27/our-right-to-free-and-fair-elections/" rel="bookmark">Our right to free and fair&nbsp;elections</a></h2>
				<small>27 March 2025</small><br />

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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Universal Declaration of Human Rights &#8211; Article 21 (3)</h3>

<p>The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.</p>

<h3 class="wp-block-heading">General comment adopted by the Human Rights Committee under article 40, paragraph 4, of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.</h3>

21. Although the Covenant does not impose any particular electoral system, any system operating in a State party must be compatible with the rights protected by article 25 and must guarantee and give effect to the free expression of the will of the electors. The principle of one person, one vote must apply, and within the framework of each State&#8217;s electoral system, the vote of one elector should be equal to the vote of another. The drawing of electoral boundaries and the method of allocating votes should not distort the distribution of voters or discriminate against any group and should not exclude or restrict unreasonably the right of citizens to choose their representatives freely.

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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2025/03/25/making-your-postal-ballot-count/" rel="bookmark">Making your postal ballot&nbsp;count</a></h2>
				<small>25 March 2025</small><br />

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Overseas Singaporeans were allowed to vote by post for the first time in the 2023 Presidential Election. <a href="https://stngiam.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/voting-at-nursing-homes-and-by-post-during-pe2023/">Unfortunately, over 40% of postal ballots were disallowed, and even among the ballot papers that were accepted, 4% of those were rejected due to irregularities in the marking of the ballot paper</a>.

<p>The government has not announced any changes to the postal balloting procedure since the 2023 election, and its <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/press/2023/Written%20Reply%20to%20PQ%20on%20Lessons%20Learned%20in%20the%20Implementation%20of%20OV%20and%20NH%20Procedures%20in%20PE2023.pdf">reply</a> to a PQ raised by NCMP Hazel Poa suggests that they will not make any major changes to the procedure before the parliamentary elections this year.</p>

While ELD released detailed instructions and an instructional video for postal voters in 2023, the process is a multi-step process, and as evidenced by the high rejection rate of postal ballots, it is not as simple as voting in a polling station in Singapore.

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Postal ballot not received in time</h2>

Under the law, postal ballots must be received by ELD within 10 days after polling day. Registered overseas voters can download their postal ballots from ELD&#8217;s website the day after nomination day and the ballots must be mailed out before polling day. That means that registered overseas voters have only eight (8) days to download their postal ballots, decide who to vote for, and post their ballots. In addition, the ballot must be received by ELD in Singapore within ten (10) days after polling day. Given the vagaries of weather, postal strikes and just general deterioration in postal services around the world, postal voters should post their ballots as early as possible to make sure that their votes are counted.

Unfortunately, just dropping off the ballot at the nearest post box is not enough. Voters must ensure that their return envelopes have a legible postmark, dated at least one day before polling day. This leads to the biggest problem that postal voters face:

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Faint, illegible or missing postmarks</h2>

ELD provides business return reply envelopes for voters, but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/18/903490612/another-post-office-election-challenge-makings-sure-ballots-are-postmarked">many countries do not routinely postmark business reply envelopes</a>, so many voters had their ballots rejected in 2023 because their return envelopes were not postmarked at all. <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/press/2023/Written%20Reply%20to%20PQ%20on%20Lessons%20Learned%20in%20the%20Implementation%20of%20OV%20and%20NH%20Procedures%20in%20PE2023.pdf">ELD is aware of this issue and does recommend that postal voters apply stamps to the return envelopes so that there will be a postmark to provide evidence of the date of posting</a>.

Voters must also take into account that some postal services do not pick up mail from all post boxes every day. And even if the mail is picked up, it may not be postmarked until it is processed at a sorting facility several days later. This means that even if the return envelope is dropped in a post box on time, it may not be postmarked until after the deadline, resulting in the ballot being disallowed.

As mentioned earlier, overseas voters should post their ballots as early as possible to prevent their ballots from being rejected. Those who want to be extra kiasu may even go to a post office personally to ask for their return envelopes to be manually postmarked by counter staff.

I do not advise using an express mail or courier service to return the postal ballot papers. If the official ELD return envelope is enclosed inside an envelope provided by the courier company, there will not be any postmarks on the official return envelope itself. Those ballots would then be rejected because elections officials are only allowed to look at postmarks on the official return envelope.

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Follow the instructions carefully</h2>

As mentioned above, ELD gives very detailed instructions on how to print, mark and post postal ballots. Even seemingly minor deviations from the instructions may cause ballots to be rejected. For example,

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<li>Printing the ballot paper and return evelope double-sided on the same sheet of paper &#8211; The return envelope must be separated from the ballot paper before counting. Don&#8217;t try to save paper. Print single-sided on two sheets of paper, otherwise the vote will be rejected. </li>

<li>Signing the ballot paper &#8211; Any ballot paper which is marked such that the voter can be identified will be rejected. Do not sign the ballot paper. Sign only on the outside of the return envelope.</li>

<li>No signature or incorrect signature on the return envelope &#8211; The return envelope must be signed, and the signature must match the sample provided to ELD during registration. </li>

<li>Two ballot papers placed inside the same return envelope &#8211; These will be not be accepted. Each voter must place his or her ballot paper inside separate return envelopes and sign them individually.</li>
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The rules may seem to be nitpicky but they are important because elections officials have to be sure that ballots received are from the correct person, and have not been tampered with. Apart from written instructions, ELD also provides <a href="https://v2.evvochannel.tv/iframe/jwplayer/seven/JX294QuvRZZF">an instructional video</a> to guide the voter through the process, so voters should follow the instructions to make sure their vote is counted.

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Registering as an overseas voter</h2>

The mechanics of postal balloting are moot if the overseas Singaporean is not registered as an overseas voter. Overseas voters must re-register as an overseas voter <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/voters_register.html">every time that the Electoral Registers are revised</a>, and since the <a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ge2025-registers-electors-certified-2-75-million-eligible-vote-5020026">Registers were revised today</a>, that means that all overseas Singaporeans must register as overseas voters if they want to vote, even if they were registered previously. This can be done <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/voters_overseas.html">online on ELD&#8217;s website</a> up to three days after the writ of election is issued. During registration, overseas voters can register to <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/voters_overseas.html">vote at overseas polling stations</a>, or to <a href="https://www.eld.gov.sg/voters_overseaspost.html">vote by post</a>. In either case, if the voter is physically present in Singapore on polling day, he or she can still vote in person at a local polling station.

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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2024/06/14/maruah-letter-on-recent-changes-to-electoral-procedures/" rel="bookmark">MARUAH letter on recent changes to electoral&nbsp;procedures</a></h2>
				<small>14 June 2024</small><br />

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<p>Maruah has submitted the following feedback to Elections Department of Singapore (&#8220;ELD&#8221;) in view of the General Election due by next year, and ELD&#8217;s announcement that it had made some changes to electoral procedures as a result of experience gained in the 2023 Presidential Election:</p>

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<p>To: Elections Department, Prime Minister&#8217;s Office</p>

Maruah is gratified that you are responding to public feedback and providing more space on ballot papers for voters to indicate their choice. During last year&#8217;s Presidential Election, ELD also introduced two new methods of voting &#8211; postal ballots and special polling stations at nursing homes. More voters were able to have their voices heard thanks to these new procedures, but there is room for improvement in these procedures.

In the case of postal balloting, over 40% of postal ballots received were rejected, mostly due to illegible or missing postmarks, or late delivery. These were not the fault of the voters, and I urge ELD to adopt more reliable ways of validating the dates of dispatch instead of relying solely on the vagaries of foreign postal systems. The forms and instructions for voting should also be improved to reduce the chance of inadvertent errors such as voters signing their forms at the wrong place or posting multiple ballots in the same envelope.

In the case of nursing homes, residents were pre-selected for participation based on the homes&#8217; assessments of their ability to vote. Unfortunately, from my own observations as a polling agent, a large proportion of the selected residents did not appear to have the mental capacity to vote or to clearly indicate their choice. This was alluded to by Minister Chan Chun Sing in a written reply to a Parliamentary Question on 4 October 2023, where he said &#8220;election officials did face challenges including managing voters who may lack the mental capacity to vote&#8221;. To prevent any disputes in future over the validity of votes at nursing homes, ELD should tighten and standardise the criteria used to assess the mental capacity of residents before they vote. ELD should also evaluate the usefulness of mobile polling stations at nursing homes.

<p>Maruah would like to thank ELD, and the thousands of elections officials and public servants involved in elections, for their continual efforts to improve the voting experience and making it easier for Singaporeans to exercise their right and duty of voting.</p>

<p>MARUAH Singapore</p>

<p>June 2024</p>
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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2023/12/08/joint-statement-laos-11-years-of-government-inaction-on-sombath-somphones-enforced-disappearance/" rel="bookmark">[Joint statement] Laos: 11 years of government inaction on Sombath Somphone’s enforced&nbsp;disappearance</a></h2>
				<small>8 December 2023</small><br />

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<p>On the 11-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals, strongly condemn the Lao government’s continued failure to provide necessary information as to his fate and whereabouts and reiterate our calls to the authorities to deliver truth, justice and reparations to his family.</p>

<p>International concerns over Sombath’s case, expressed by international civil society, United Nations (UN) human rights experts, and UN member states on last year’s anniversary of Sombath’s enforced disappearance, have been ignored by the Lao government.</p>

On 25 September 2023, in a submission to the UN Human Rights Committee as part of its follow-up review of Laos under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Lao government repeated previous misleading statements and miserably failed to provide any additional information on the steps it said it had taken to find Sombath. The government claimed it “never stopped trying to find the truth” about Sombath’s fate “in order to bring the offender(s) to justice.” In reality, the Lao authorities have continued to disregard Sombath’s wife, Shui Meng Ng, and have not provided her with any updates on her husband’s case since 2017. The government then made the extraordinary assertion that its Task Force’s investigation had been “carried out on the basis of transparency, impartiality and accountability, including the use of modern investigative techniques consistent with international standards by the capable inquiry officials.” It concluded that the case of Sombath needed “more time for investigation” and added that the Task Force was “still active in the investigation” and had “not yet closed the case.”

These government statements are unequivocally false in suggesting any degree of transparency. Existing evidence is clear that the Lao government has been engaged in a continuous cover-up of the facts of Sombath’s case since he was forcibly disappeared in 2012, including providing misleading information about its actions to his family, the Lao public, and the international community, as stated above.

<p>We deplore the unmistakable pattern of inaction, negligence, and obfuscation that various Lao authorities have repeatedly engaged in for more than a decade and we continue to resolutely stand in solidarity with Sombath’s family and all other victims of enforced disappearances in Laos.</p>

We reiterate our calls on the Lao authorities to take real and effective measures to establish the fate or whereabouts of Sombath and all other victims of enforced disappearances in the country, identify the perpetrators of such serious crimes, and provide victims with an effective remedy and full reparations. We also urge the government to immediately ratify without reservations the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which it signed in 2008, and to fully implement it into national law, policies and practices.

As upcoming chair for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Laos will be placed in a strategic position to lead the regional efforts to strengthen, promote, and protect human rights. However, its continued failure to act on Sombath’s enforced disappearance sends a message of inadequacy to head the regional bloc and to fulfill ASEAN’s purpose under Article 1(7) of the ASEAN Charter, which is to strengthen democracy, enhance good governance, and the rule of law and to promote and protect human rights and fundamental freedoms.

We will continue to seek justice and accountability for Sombath. Until the truth is found and justice is delivered to his family, we will not stop demanding answers from the Lao government to the same question we have been asking for the past 11 years: “Where is Sombath?”

<p><strong>Background</strong></p>

Sombath Somphone, a pioneer in community-based development and youth empowerment, was last seen at a police checkpoint on a busy street of Vientiane on the evening of 15 December 2012. Footage from a traffic CCTV camera showed that police stopped Sombath’s vehicle at the checkpoint and that, within minutes, unknown individuals forced him into another vehicle and drove him away in the presence of police officers. CCTV footage also showed an unknown individual arriving and driving Sombath’s vehicle away from the city center. In December 2015, Sombath’s family obtained new CCTV footage from the same area and made it public. The video shows Sombath’s car being driven back towards the city by an unknown individual.

<p>For further information, please visit: <a href="https://www.sombath.org/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sombath.org/en/</a></p>
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				<small>1 November 2023</small><br />

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<p>MARUAH strongly condemns the abhorrent crimes against humanity in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and urges immediate action to alleviate the pain and suffering inflicted on innocent civilians and devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza.</p>

<p>We urge all parties involved to respect and abide by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as Articles 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7. In particular, Article 5 states that ‘No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’.</p>
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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2023/09/08/winners-of-essay-contest-for-young-singaporeans-on-their-vision-for-singapore-beyond-lee-kuan-yew/" rel="bookmark">Winners of Essay Contest for Young Singaporeans on Their Vision For Singapore Beyond Lee Kuan&nbsp;Yew</a></h2>
				<small>8 September 2023</small><br />

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Maruah is pleased to announce the winners of our <a href="https://maruah.org/2023/04/30/maruah-essay-contest-for-young-singaporeans-on-their-vision-for-a-singapore-beyond-lee-kuan-yew/">essay contest for young Singaporeans on their vision for a Singapore beyond Lee Kuan Yew</a>. The contest was organised to encourage young Singaporeans to evaluate Mr Lee’s legacy and consider how they would retain or modify his legacy for Singapore.

Eight years after Mr Lee&#8217;s death, the imprint of Lee Kuan Yew can still be clearly seen in public discourse on many issues. For example, the controversy over the renting of colonial bungalows to Government ministers, the arrest of a Government minister on suspicion of corruption, and even the resignations of People&#8217;s Action Party (PAP) and opposition Members of Parliament over extra-marital affairs are legacies of Mr Lee&#8217;s determination that politicians in Singapore be whiter-than-white.&nbsp;The Elected Presidency was also a creation of LKY, and just by voting in the recent Presidential Election, all Singaporeans are participating in a system that Mr Lee established.

Almost a decade after his death, Mr Lee&#8217;s legacy remains ubiquitious in Singapore but the World does not stay still, and as he himself would have recognised, Singaporeans, especially young Singaporeans have to think of how they would retain or modify LKY&#8217;s legacy to meet their needs and aspirations in a rapidly-changing environment. This was the question posed to participants in the contest and the judging panel selected four winners, in no particular order &#8211; Lam Yu Han, Luke Lee, Desiree Leong and Wesley Ng.&nbsp;

<a href="https://maruah.org/young-singaporeans-vision-for-singapore-post-lee-kuan-yew/lam-yu-han/">Lam Yu Han</a>, a 23-year-old full-time National Serviceman who volunteers in the community and has an interest in social issues and politics. Lam is grateful for the economic prosperity and security that Mr Lee&#8217;s leadership brought to Singapore, but is also perturbed by the Out-of-Bounds (OB) markers the Government places on media and even on individuals who choose self-censorship as the path of least resistance. In his view, Mr Lee will only be able to rest peacefully in his grave when Singapore has both a government that has the competence and legitmacy to take on the challenges facing the nation, and a society that can discuss ideas freely and intelligently.

<a href="https://maruah.org/young-singaporeans-vision-for-singapore-post-lee-kuan-yew/luke-lee-shijie/">Luke Lee</a>, 22, was also in National Service when he entered the essay contest as a means of educating himself to examine issues wholistically and objectively. Growing up, Luke had only been taught the positive aspects of Lee Kuan Yew (LKY), and only later in life became aware of more questionable aspects such as LKY&#8217;s use of the Internal Security Act against political opponents, and eugenic policies including the Graduate Mothers&#8217; Scheme. Luke&#8217;s wish is that people can express divergent opinions without fear, and wrote the essay to meet his own aspiration and as an encouragement to others.

<a href="https://maruah.org/young-singaporeans-vision-for-singapore-post-lee-kuan-yew/desiree-leong/">Desiree Leong </a>has been working with Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) for seven years where she has seen first-hand that migrant worker issues are often at the coalface of broader issues facing society. Ms Leong feels strongly that this country is her home and where she wants to make a difference. She believes that for Singapore to move forward together as an inclusive society, we will have to come to terms with the past so as to truly make it our past.

<a href="https://maruah.org/young-singaporeans-vision-for-singapore-post-lee-kuan-yew/wesley-ng/">Wesley Ng </a>is an undergraduate in Poltical Science &amp; South East Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS) with an interest in the politics of South East Asia. Mr Ng hopes that Singapore will continue and cherish the parts of LKY&#8217;s legacy that reinforce Singaporeans&#8217; belief that their nation can continue to remain united regardless of race, language or religion, and to succeed against the odds. At the same time, he argues that Singapore today calls for a different style of governance &#8211; One that recognizes that while the post-LKY leaders need strong public trust to succeed, the leaders also need to trust that the citizenry are aware of what is best for Singapore and of what Singapore needs to succeed.

<p>These four essays are only a small sample of the views that young Singaporeans have on LKY&#8217;s legacy and of the Singapore that they hope to see in the future.  Maruah hopes all Singaporeans will continue to engage in meaningful discussions of the home that they wish to live in and to build in the future.</p>
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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2023/08/20/repost-the-big-read-transporting-migrant-workers-on-lorries-why-cant-we-stop-the-unsafe-practice-after-so-long/" rel="bookmark">[Repost] The Big Read: Transporting migrant workers on lorries — why can&#8217;t we stop the unsafe practice after so&nbsp;long?</a></h2>
				<small>20 August 2023</small><br />

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<p><a href="https://www.todayonline.com/big-read/big-read-transporting-migrant-workers-lorries-why-cant-we-stop-unsafe-practice-after-so-long-2235726">https://www.todayonline.com/big-read/big-read-transporting-migrant-workers-lorries-why-cant-we-stop-unsafe-practice-after-so-long-2235726</a></p>

<p>SINGAPORE — Sometime in 2021, migrant worker Miah Mohammad Afzal saw a traffic accident before his very eyes — a motorcycle crashing into a stationary lorry that was picking up a group of his colleagues.</p>

<p>It happened by the roadside where he was waiting with his other colleagues to be picked up by another lorry, which arrived minutes after that accident.</p>

<p>“At that time I was thinking, if this accident happened two minutes later, then I’d also be on the lorry, and I also would have been injured,” he told TODAY, adding that while he felt grateful for narrowly escaping harm, he felt “very sad” for his fellow workers.</p>

<p>Little did he expect that a similar misfortune would befall him just months later, when a car crashed into the lorry that was ferrying him and a colleague as they sat in its rear deck.</p>

<p>While the other man managed to hold on to the side of the vehicle, Mr Afzal, then 28, was flung a few metres out of the lorry.</p>

<p>The accident, which struck Mr Afzal at the prime of his life, resulted in over 250 days of hospitalisation leave and left him with mild cognitive disability and retrograde amnesia, and a permanent injury to his hip and pelvis.</p>

<p>With his mother unwell and the injury claim process dragging out, Mr Afzal returned to his hometown in Bangladesh, where he now tries his best to get by with helping out at his family farm.</p>

<p>“I cannot do hard work like before… Right now, I feel like I’m 40 or 50 years old,” he said, adding that people around him could also notice the decline in his health and ability to do physical work.</p>

<p>Mr Afzal is just one among thousands of workers who have been injured, maimed or killed in accidents involving lorries the past 10 years or so, while the practice of ferrying workers on the rear decks of such vehicles have been endlessly debated on for at least over a decade with nary a progress.</p>

<p>A few other migrant workers who spoke to TODAY recently — mostly under anonymity due to fear of reprisals — lamented how their pleas to employers were met with indifference at best or on many occasions, threats of deportation.</p>

“I cannot open (my) mouth…boss will say: ‘This one, I will send back already’,” said one worker from India who worked as a lorry driver in the construction industry for five years, before recently moving to a different industry. He added that riding on the back of lorries “is not just dangerous, it’s very, very dangerous”.

<p>The long-running debate on the issue of safer transportation for foreign workers was reignited recently, following two such <a href="https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/26-men-hospital-3-lorries-kje-accident-2213691">accidents</a> and a parliamentary adjournment motion filed by Member of Parliament (MP) Louis Ng in July, asking for a timeline towards legislating a ban on ferrying workers at the back of lorries, and some interim measures in the meantime.</p>

<p>Two petitions were also raised by members of the public and non-government organisations (NGOs) in July, followed by a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/business-groups-warn-complexities-traffic-jams-ban-workers-rear-lorries-2223841">joint response</a>&nbsp;on Aug 1 by 25 business and trade associations.</p>

<p>While reiterating the business fraternity’s commitment to workers’ safety, the statement by the business groups cautioned against any form of immediate legislation, warning people to brace themselves for traffic jams, higher costs and “a change in social compact” if they insist on hastily changing the way workers are transported.</p>

<p>The statement inevitably&nbsp;<a href="https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/trending-readers-slam-business-safety-workers-transport-back-lorries-2224761">drew flak</a>&nbsp;from members of the public, with some accusing businesses of prioritising profits over human lives, trying to push the bill (and blame) on society, and dragging their feet given that the debate has been going on for so long.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Singapore’s Ambassador-at-Large Tommy Koh also reacted negatively to the statement, saying that the business groups “are resorting to scare tactics to support their cause”.</p>

<p>“We should not be misled by their campaign,” he wrote in a Facebook post.</p>

<p>On the Government’s part, the Ministry of Transport (MOT) and government partner agencies issued <a href="https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/lorries-make-4-road-accident-injuries-efforts-improve-worker-safety-remain-evidence-based-govt-2224446?cid=internal_inarticlelinks_web_18082023_tdy">a joint statement</a> on Aug 2, reaffirming their commitment to workers’ safety while highlighting that a big push that threaten the ability of businesses to stay open may put employees&#8217; jobs at risk, besides other “knock-on effects” on society like more expensive or delayed infrastructure projects. </p>

<p>“We want to safeguard both safety and livelihoods of our workers, and have worked closely with stakeholders on a suite of additional safety measures,” the joint statement said, highlighting incremental steps taken over the years.</p>

<p>Amid the renewed debate, a few local companies shared with TODAY the extent of their cost concerns, and other operational challenges they had experienced in trying to switch to safer transport modes.</p>

<p>At the same time, most parties lobbying for better treatment of workers —  including NGOs focusing on the welfare of migrant workers  — said they empathised with the challenges faced by businesses.</p>

<p>Ms Jewel Yi, co-lead of ground-up movement Covid-19 Migrant Support Coalition, acknowledged how difficult it is to be an employer in Singapore and that cost issues would “affect the rice bowls of people on the ground”.</p>

<p>While “we definitely do not and should not demonise” employers in this debate, she stressed that the main point that safe transport proponents are making is “whether the cost concerns of employers should outweigh the lives and limbs of workers”.</p>

<p>While the issue is pressing, and perhaps even overdue, the advocates are not demanding an instant overhaul of the long-running practice.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.todayonline.com/big-read/big-read-transporting-migrant-workers-lorries-why-cant-we-stop-unsafe-practice-after-so-long-2235726"><em>Please visit Todayonline.com to access the rest of the article &#8211; https://www.todayonline.com/big-read/big-read-transporting-migrant-workers-lorries-why-cant-we-stop-unsafe-practice-after-so-long-2235726</em></a></p>

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				<h2><a href="https://maruah.org/2023/07/25/joint-statement-end-lorry-rides-save-workers-lives-ban-them-immediately/" rel="bookmark">[Joint statement] End Lorry Rides, Save Workers’ Lives – Ban them&nbsp;Immediately.</a></h2>
				<small>25 July 2023</small><br />

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On the early morning of 18 July 2023, three lorries piled up in an accident on Kranji Expressway. 26 migrant workers who had been riding in them were taken to three different hospitals after sustaining injuries. The very next day, a car collided with a lorry on the KPE. 11 people were taken to the hospital, including 10 migrant workers from the lorry. &nbsp; &nbsp; Meanwhile, a mere two weeks ago in Parliament, the Singapore government chose again to reject an adjournment motion by MP Louis Ng to ban the ferrying of workers on lorries. Senior Minister of Transport Amy Khor said the government agreed that it “would be ideal” not to transport workers in lorries, but then went on to repeat the same tired excuses, like how there were “not enough drivers with the necessary license” and “not enough private buses”, as if this were not issues that could have been resolved years ago.

The feeble steps that the government has taken so far &#8211; which they claim increases safety on lorries &#8211; are grossly inadequate, and a mere distraction from what is plainly the right thing to do – ban ferrying workers on goods lorries. The simple fact remains that good lorries were never designed for human transport – they are not safety tested for human transport, and they violate the dignity of workers, who are exposed to heat stress and heavy rains on the road, always anxious if they will reach their destination safely.

<p>The government’s inaction is further inexcusable given the wide range of transport alternatives that so many other countries rely on to transport workers in similar industries, including high tech-bus scheduling and shuttle services that allow companies to share buses, mini-buses, goods-cum-passenger vehicles, and more.</p>

In 2020, the minimum amount of foreign worker levy the government collected in the industries that ferry workers in lorries would have been at least 1.1. billion dollars. The government can use some of this levy money to support smaller companies that may face start-up challenges with transitioning away from lorries and towards safer transport options.

<p>But when, instead of confronting the issue with the gravity and urgency it requires, the government engages in handwringing and theatrics about “trade-offs” and the “acute pain” to industry that would be caused by banning lorries, we have no choice but to conclude that they simply do not care about workers’ lives, or the <strong>real, acute pain</strong> that injured workers and grieving families thousands of miles away experience every year because of our unconscionable choices.</p>

Over the years, more and more voices have called for an end to transporting workers in lorries, including rights groups, health and safety experts, MPs, and migrant workers themselves. In a Straits Times article in 2021, NTUC assistant secretary general Melvin Yong&nbsp; stated that “there is a perfectly viable alternative to transport our migrant workers – in buses, equipped with seat belts”. A people’s petition in 2020 to ban lorries garnered over 40,000 signatories in a single week. It is abundantly clear what the people want &#8211; it weighs heavily on ordinary Singaporeans’ conscience that we put workers at risk every day, while we travel safely in buses, taxis, cars and the MRT. Does it not weigh on the government’s?

<p><em>Between 2011 and 2020 alone, 58 workers on-board lorries died in road traffic accidents, and 4765 were injured.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; </em><em></em><em><br></em></p>

How many more workers will be injured while the government continues to have “difficult conversations”? How many more years must we mourn these completely preventable deaths? What will it take before the dignity and the basic right to safe transportation is restored to our migrant brothers?&nbsp; &nbsp;

<p><em>If our Ministers would not put their children in the backs of lorries, then they have no business putting other people’s children – our migrant brothers – in the backs of lorries.</em></p>

Migrant workers’ lives matter. And they certainly matter more than their bosses’ profits.

<p><strong>We, the undersigned, call on the government to:</strong><strong> </strong><strong><br></strong><strong><br></strong><strong> a) immediately ban the ferrying of migrant workers on lorries;</strong></p>

<p><strong>b) set up an MOT initiative to support companies that may face challenges with transitioning towards safer modes of transport</strong></p>

<p>#HumansNotCargo</p>

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