Year in review

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Humanosphere’s year in review

Comedian John Oliver’s end-of-year video obscenely summed up most folks’ sentiments: “This has been a really shitty year.” But it’s worth noting that for some people, like most Syrians, it’s been shitty for years. Suffering, instability and conflicts often ripple out well beyond borders. Our writers reflect on the issues that, at Humanosphere anyway, remind us that we need to pay attention to the entire world community if we want to truly understand.

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Here are five reasons why 2017 will be better than 2016

For many, if not most, the end of 2016 will be a welcome end to a terrible year. Many of the things that disappointed people this year will impact next year. I’m going to take a chance and predict 2017 will be better. Here are five reasons or predictions about the next calendar year that should give some hope.

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Voices of the Humanosphere 2016: Oxfam keeps warning of widening gap between rich and poor

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.

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Voices of the Humanosphere 2016: Fred Bauma of Congo

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.