Tom Paulson, Author at Humanosphere

For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we're talking with a leader in the battle to end human trafficking. Bradley Myles and his colleagues at Polaris has for the past 15 years concentrated his efforts on reducing, and ideally eliminating, a practice that unfortunately may be as old as human history: slavery and trade in human beings.

For today's Year-in-Review podcast pull from the archives, we're revisiting the chat we had with Patrick Awuah, founder of Ashesi University in Ghana.

One of the things almost everyone agrees on in the fight against poverty and inequity is that the battle cannot succeed based on charity or aid efforts alone. What we need to end poverty worldwide, say many development experts, is to make sure everyone who is able to work has the means to earn a [...]

It's odd how little attention the issue of tax avoidance gets within the humanitarian and aid/development community given the negative impact this has on all of our lives - and especially the poorest of the poor. So as part of our year in review calisthenics, we are talking about it again with Alex Cobham. Revisiting the podcast on tax justice.

The World Economic Forum takes place again at Davos in a few weeks. The most newsworthy and powerful message that usually comes out of this confab of the rich and powerful is not some speech by Bono or Bill Gates but rather an Oxfam report that reminds everyone, as they have for the last few years, that less than a hundred people on the planet today own more than half the world's population. Crazy, right? Our podcast from last year's warning.

As a year-in-review sort of thing (which we - and all media - do this week to disguise the fact that we're trying to not to work much over the holiday), I'm going to highlight some of our top podcasts of 2016. Today, it's Fred Bauma who is fighting for democracy and rule of law in DR Congo. With the country in a very precarious political place right now, it will be crucial for the international community to support activists like Bauma.