Jevon Ng is the Social Work Executive in the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (HOME), an NGO dedicated to providing assistance to migrant workers in Singapore who are abused and exploited. HOME was founded in 2004 at a time when awareness of the working and living conditions of these workers was beginning to rise. Harvard … Read more
Reporters describe babies being ripped out of mothers’ arms and burned alive, men and young boys being executed in front of their families, and women being raped and left to die in the ashes of their villages by Myanmar’s military forces. Six hundred twenty thousand people have been displaced, and two hundred eighty-eight villages have … Read more
When Facebook began as an online directory for Harvard students in 2004, no one—not even founder Mark Zuckerberg—anticipated its use beyond forging college connections. Facebook, wrote Zuckerberg, was intended to help college students “understand what was going on in their world a little better.” Yet Facebook has since blossomed into a full-fledged social media site, … Read more