On 12 June, Advocates For Refugees – Singapore (AFR-SG) partnered with local cinema The Projector to screen Flee, a film recounting the true story of Amin, a gay Afghan refugee who fled Afghanistan following the 1989 civil war. Amin’s experience of stigma, shame and trauma at the intersection of two marginalised identities provided ample food for […]
On 4th June 2022, Advocates For Refugees – Singapore organised a panel centred on Humanitarian Crises, exploring the role of local and global responses to them. The panel was held as part of RAW 2022, an annual campaign to commemorate World Refugee Day on 20 June. by Tan Jing Ling Overview of the Panel Two […]
On 9th September 2021, Advocates for Refugees – Singapore convened a special session, “Young and Resourceful: Navigating Forced Displacement as Digital Natives”. The session was held on Day 3 of the Forced Displacement and Urban Management Conference, organised by the Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugee Research Group (RDI UREF) and the Indonesian Civil Society Organisation […]
Like a cage in search of a bird, Ai Weiwei locks the Singaporean film-goer in 2 hours of cinema-turned-refugee-camp in his experiential film, a hymn to life in an unlivable world…
Whenever I am asked why I have chosen refugee law as my major research interest, I always say that I am drawn to the “home” being something fleeting, transient, impermanent…