Humanism is the only, and I would go so far as to say, the final resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. We are today abetted by the enormously encouraging democratic field of cyberspace, open to all users in ways undreamed of in earlier generations either of tyrants or of orthodoxies (Said, Orientalism, 2003 edition: xxix).
Al Jazeera English - WITNESS - Migrant Dreams
Migrant Dreams
Each year, tens of thousands of migrant workers travel to Singapore hoping for a better life.
Most of them pay large fees to agents who promise them work as labourers in the construction and shipping industries.
When the economy was booming, those promises were largely fulfilled. But as a global recession takes hold, horror stories are emerging.
Source: english.aljazeera.net
