Based on news reports, Singapore’s Attorney-General, Walter Woon, appeared to draw a line in the sand for the Singapore government in a speech on 29 May 2008. He apparently described anyone using a human rights argument to advocate changes in policy as possibly “fanatics”. If so, then such a position is not helpful to engagement between the state and civil society.
It also seems that he tried to make a distinction between politics and the law where issues of human rights belong to the realm of politics, and should be negotiated with the state rather than honoured by the justice system.
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