Thought Leadership

Some of the world’s leaders, and leading thinkers from NUS and overseas, regularly gather and add to the rich diversity of thoughts and ideas on our campuses, in Singapore and across the globe.
Here’s what they had to share.

Discrimination and rights as critical dimensions of public policy

Speaker: Dr. Hasheem Mannan, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin 26 Mar 2018

Dr Hasheem Mannan, Associate Professor at the University College Dublin delivered a lunchtime seminar at the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy that focuses on the UN Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child with case studies from two developing countries. It explores these countries' responses to addressing global health issues and how they link to the core concepts of human rights.