Inside Geneva

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Inside Geneva is a podcast about global politics, humanitarian issues, and international aid, hosted by journalist Imogen Foulkes. It is produced by SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland.


Episode Date
Can the UN and international law survive?
Dec 24, 2024
How has the world changed in 2024? UN correspondents look back
Dec 10, 2024
Europe, the UN and the battle for human rights
Nov 26, 2024
Inside Geneva goes to New York: what really happens at the UN?
Nov 12, 2024
Love for life in Gaza and COP29’s ethical dilemma in Azerbaijan
Oct 29, 2024
Does it matter to the UN who’s in the White House?
Oct 15, 2024
Special episode: A year of war in the Middle East
Oct 07, 2024
Forty years of the convention against torture: are we honouring it?
Oct 01, 2024
Can the UN's Summit for the Future tackle today’s toughest challenges?
Sep 17, 2024
Special episode: Can the WTO shape a fairer world economy?
Sep 10, 2024
Summer profiles: Recognising and supporting survivors of sexual violence
Sep 03, 2024
Summer profiles: Afghan women’s struggle against Taliban oppression
Aug 20, 2024
Special episode: World Humanitarian Day stories from crisis zones
Aug 19, 2024
Summer profiles: using sport to unite refugees and host communities
Aug 06, 2024
Summer profiles: unlocking treatment for neglected diseases
Jul 23, 2024
Summer profiles: challenges in humanitarian aid with MSF’s Secretary General
Jul 09, 2024
Summer profiles: women defending other women around the world
Jun 25, 2024
Is international law dead?
Jun 11, 2024
Laws that changed our world and the people who fought for them
May 28, 2024
Is the world brave enough to agree on a pandemic treaty?
May 14, 2024
New wars, new weapons and the Geneva Conventions
Apr 30, 2024
The Rwandan genocide 30 years on: witnessing atrocities - and trying to stop them
Apr 16, 2024
Eyewitness in a Gaza hospital and defending human rights defenders
Apr 02, 2024
Is AI a risk to democracy?
Mar 19, 2024
What’s the future of UNRWA? The Struggle for Balance in Gaza's Aid Operations
Mar 05, 2024
Reflecting on Ukraine's Struggle and Perseverance Two Years into the Russian Invasion
Feb 20, 2024
Humanitarian and business alliances: Reflecting on Earthquake Rescue Efforts in Turkey and Syria
Feb 06, 2024
A look into South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Jan 23, 2024
Israel, Gaza and the challenge to humanitarianism
Jan 09, 2024
Narratives from the frontlines of human suffering
Dec 26, 2023
Beyond declarations: UN voices reflect on 75 years of human rights advocacy
Dec 12, 2023
Baptism of fire for UN's new human rights chief
Nov 28, 2023
The UN, Peace Week and the Middle East
Nov 14, 2023
Michelle Bachelet's personal fight for human rights
Oct 31, 2023
How the Israeli-Palestinian war challenges humanitarian aid
Oct 24, 2023
The future of human rights in Russia
Oct 17, 2023
The journey of Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein: the sixth UN Human Rights Commissioner
Oct 03, 2023
Inside Geneva's 100th episode: the war in Syria, killer robots and justice in Myanmar
Sep 19, 2023
From Apartheid to the UN: Navi Pillay's experience as Human Rights Commissioner
Sep 05, 2023
Humanitarian Heroes: Personal Tales of Tragedy, Triumph and the Search for the Missing
Aug 22, 2023
Championing Human Rights: The Story of Louise Arbor
Aug 08, 2023
Governing artificial intelligence: Ethics, Risks and Possibilities
Jul 25, 2023
Human rights and those who defend them: Mary Robinson
Jul 11, 2023
What now for women in Afghanistan?
Jun 27, 2023
Universal human rights at 75: who defends them?
Jun 13, 2023
What became of the pandemic treaty?
May 30, 2023
Sudan’s tragedy
May 15, 2023
ICRC reunites families, Swiss neutrality and weapons exports
May 02, 2023
Ukraine, war crimes and Putin
Apr 18, 2023
Aid Access Dilemmas
Apr 04, 2023
Books to make you think
Mar 21, 2023
How to hold China to account
Mar 07, 2023
How to make peace? The first anniversary of war in Ukraine.
Feb 23, 2023
Earthquakes, aid and politics
Feb 14, 2023
Challenges for the new UN Human Rights chief
Feb 07, 2023
Cyber Wars
Jan 24, 2023
Afghanistan: aid without women
Jan 10, 2023
Aid agencies reflect on 2022
Dec 27, 2022
UN correspondents look back
Dec 13, 2022
What is the nuclear threat?
Nov 29, 2022
Q&A on migration, asylum and refugees
Nov 15, 2022
COP27, climate change and health
Nov 01, 2022
Helping Ukraine: lessons and challenges
Oct 18, 2022
Defending human rights in Russia
Oct 04, 2022
What is the ITU and why does it matter?
Sep 20, 2022
Day of the Disappeared
Sep 06, 2022
Syria: the forgotten crisis
Aug 23, 2022
Women, peace and security
Aug 09, 2022
What do rights groups want from the UN?
Jul 26, 2022
What does it take to lead the UN human rights office?
Jul 12, 2022
Drought and food insecurity
Jun 28, 2022
Refugee policy: the good, the bad and the ugly
Jun 14, 2022
Neutrality, NATO and the new world order
May 31, 2022
World Health Assembly: lessons learned from the pandemic?
May 17, 2022
Press freedom: more important than ever?
May 03, 2022
Ukraine: can sanctions or war crimes investigations stop the war?
Apr 19, 2022
How Ukraine affects other humanitarian crises
Apr 05, 2022
What to expect from the UN Human Rights Office’s visit to China?
Mar 22, 2022
War in Ukraine
Mar 08, 2022
What does the Human Rights Council mean to victims of atrocities?
Feb 22, 2022
Cyber-attacks: what are the risks for aid agencies?
Feb 08, 2022
War and humanitarian aid in the 21st century
Jan 25, 2022
What does 2022 hold for Afghanistan?
Jan 11, 2022
2021: a crisis upon a crisis for humanitarian agencies
Dec 28, 2021
What happened in ‘International Geneva’ in 2021?
Dec 14, 2021
Do we need a pandemic treaty?
Nov 30, 2021
Do we need to decolonize aid?
Nov 16, 2021
COP26: Why the climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis
Nov 02, 2021
The SDGs: Can we solve all of the world's problems?
Oct 21, 2021
How to prevent a cold war in science
Oct 11, 2021
Extinction: old work habits and hierarchies?
Oct 05, 2021
Killer robots: should algorithms decide who lives or dies?
Sep 21, 2021
How 9/11 has eroded our human rights
Sep 07, 2021
Afghanistan: aid agencies are staying
Aug 24, 2021
Chocolate, gold, human rights: what’s the Swiss Connection?
Aug 10, 2021
Afghanistan: The forever war?
Jul 27, 2021
Human rights: Holding businesses to account
Jul 13, 2021
War crimes: Holding perpetrators to account
Jun 29, 2021
Biden-Putin: The Geneva summit expectations
Jun 14, 2021
Education: Making it a priority in humanitarian emergencies
Jun 01, 2021
Finding common ground to battle future pandemics
May 18, 2021
Defending the Disappeared
May 04, 2021
Is the United Nations' top job for men only?
Apr 20, 2021
Genocide: why we apply the term sparingly
Apr 06, 2021
Syria, a decade of war
Mar 23, 2021
Is Facebook a danger to democracy?
Mar 09, 2021
Are nuclear weapons really banned?
Feb 23, 2021
Covid 19: When hindsight is 20/20
Feb 09, 2021
How strong is US's renewed global commitment?
Jan 26, 2021
Reporting the pandemic, one year on
Jan 12, 2021
The global treaty that has saved thousands of lives
Dec 29, 2020
Is humanitarian aid broken?
Dec 15, 2020
What does a new US president mean for international Geneva?
Dec 01, 2020
Africa and Covid-19: What can be learned?
Nov 17, 2020
Special episode: The future of the United Nations
Nov 03, 2020
Who holds aid agencies accountable?
Oct 27, 2020
Coping with coronavirus as winter looms
Oct 13, 2020
Aid agencies face racism accusations
Oct 05, 2020
Unalienable rights, unpacked
Aug 29, 2020
Can Covid-19 'vaccine multilateralism' work?
Jul 24, 2020
World trade at a crossroads
Jul 09, 2020
Why can’t we unite in the face of a global health crisis?
Jun 30, 2020
In charge at the UN in trying times
Jun 16, 2020
What’s the point of multilateralism? The UN at 75
May 26, 2020
Pandemics and power
Apr 28, 2020
Coronavirus: global scenarios and impact
Apr 09, 2020
A decade of war in Syria
Mar 27, 2020
The United Nations and China
Mar 22, 2020
What should we be doing about human rights violations?
Mar 07, 2020
How to deal with coronavirus?
Feb 11, 2020
Why humanitarian groups go to Davos
Jan 22, 2020
What kind of year will it be for the UN?
Jan 12, 2020
Humanitarians and counter-terror laws
Dec 17, 2019
How to cope with killer robots
Nov 21, 2019
Potential and pitfalls for Syrian peace talks
Oct 31, 2019
How the Human Rights Council works
Oct 06, 2019
Populist rhetoric and humanitarian work
Sep 07, 2019