SINGAPOREAN journalist, writer and activist Kirsten Han will be presenting the Northbridge-based Centre for Stories’ Human Rights lecture on November 28.
Ms Han will discuss the themes of her award-winning essay Singapore Will Always Be At War, which explores Singapore’s war on drugs, human rights abuses, and the personal stories of those affected by the system.
Han is managing editor of quarterly Asian-focussed journal Mekong Review and her byline has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Washington Post and The Guardian.
She has won advocate of the year at the Singapore Advocacy Awards and in 2019 won a Human Rights Press Award for her commentaries on “fake news” and freedom of expression in Singapore.
Her first book, The Singapore I Recognise: Essays on home, community and hope was published in 2023.
We are please to share the press release for an upcoming event – the Human Rights Lecture, featuring Kirsten Han, recipient of the 2024 Portside Review Human Rights Essay Prize.
Her talk is being held on November 28 at the Art Gallery of WA from 6.30pm. Tix $20 from the Centre for Stories website.
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