Shortly after the Asian Humanism Conference ended, Filipino Freethinkers president Red Tani held a podcast interview with our President Paul Tobin and his daughter Patricia Tobin. Watch the interview here:
Red Tani: We’re in Singapore for the Asian Humanist Conference hosted by the Humanist Society (Singapore). Congratulations for the job well done on the Conference. What is the significance of holding this event in Singapore? [Read more…]
The pink version of our Good for Goodness Sake t-shirts are still on sale! The pink version has been worn at our annual Pink Dot picnics for several years. Here’s a photo from Pink Dot 2014.
We are only taking new orders for ONE colour (pink). The other colours, dark grey, brown, maroon and navy, are not being reprinted at the moment. Here’s the chart of sizes:
STATEMENT FROM THE HUMANIST SOCIETY (SINGAPORE):
Singapore’s founding Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew has passed away this morning at the age of 91.
Throughout his years of public service, including as Prime Minister from 1959-1990, Mr Lee and his team worked to create a safe and prosperous country. Mr Lee recognised the importance of secularism in a muliti-religious society, to balance competing interests so that no group is systematically favoured over another.
Our Society expresses our condolescences to Mr Lee’s family. We will remember his service to Singapore.
For updates, you can follow these two pages:
PM Lee’s page:
https://www.facebook.com/leehsienloong
Remembering Lee Kuan Yew:
https://www.facebook.com/RememberingLeeKuanYew
Executive Committee
Humanist Society (Singapore)
Darwin Day began in the United States back in the 1990s to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. The event is popular in academic communities and humanist groups in the US and parts of Europe. On this occasion, talks and various activities are held to highlight Darwin’s contribution to science, or to promote science in general.
Over the past few years, the idea of celebrating Darwin Day has slowly made its way to parts of Asia. These Darwin Days were usually started by local humanist/atheist activists or expatriates. Humanists in Singapore, for example, have been holding events related to Darwin since 2009, the 150th anniversary of his birth. [Read more…]
Dear members,
In preparation for the 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Humanist Society (Singapore), we would like to invite fellow members to run as members of the coming year’s Executive Committee. The following posts will be available this year for a 2-year term: [Read more…]
The Humanist Society (Singapore) wrote a letter in response to the Health Ministry public consultation on pre-abortion criteria. The Ministry has thanked the Society for its feedback.
Dear Sir/ Madam
Our commentary on recognising non-religious Singaporeans has been published on Secular World, the magazine of Atheist Alliance International. A slightly edited and shorter version of the commentary was published earlier in August as a readers’ comment on Yahoo.
Our organisation is a member of the AAI. While the AAI has started as a coalition of atheist groups in the US, it has since expanded into a global network of atheist, agnostic, skeptic, and humanist groups. Last year, In 2013, the AAI was granted special consultative status by the UN.
The HSS thanks AAI for publishing our commentary. Read the rest of the magazine here:
http://www.atheistalliance.org/media/secularworld/2014/SW-Oct-Dec-2014.pdf
Singapore needs a national narrative for the non-religious, argues our President Paul Tobin in our first commentary in the media published on Yahoo Singapore. The 700+ word article talks about forgotten pioneers of Singapore, freethinkers who face hostile disapproval for leaving their faith, and his recommendations. Find out more here:
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/your-view–recognising-non-religious-singaporeans-075825779.html
If the URL is no longer working, please contact us at info(at)humanist.org.sg
This year, the World Humanist Congress took place in Oxford, England from 7 – 10 August. Our committee member Huifen attended the Congress – here is her experience of it. [Read more…]
