Inside Geneva

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.

Podcasting since 2019 • 187 episodes

Inside Geneva

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From Kabul to Fiji in the fight for gender equality

What takes a woman from a law career in Australia to Somalia, Afghanistan and then…Fiji? On our Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes talks to UN Women’s Alison Davidian about being in Kabul when the Taliban returned and about ...

September 29, 2026 • 28:55

International Gender Champions speak out

Diversity, equality, inclusion, woke: are these concepts now toxic?The past two years have seen a pushback against gender equality, and it is having real-world consequences for women and girls. Yet in Geneva, the Internationa...

September 15, 2026 • 35:28

Gaza: Ceasefire, sort of. Reconstruction, no.

It’s been ten months since the ceasefire in Gaza. Almost a million people still live in tents. There are 60 million tonnes of rubble to clear.The UN estimates reconstruction will cost at least $70 billion. But the work has not started. K...

September 01, 2026 • 30:14

Pushback on human rights: defenders speak out

UN investigations have documented war crimes in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan. So why is no one being held accountable?Why do some political leaders talk about human rights as though they were an optional nuisance? In this episode ...

August 18, 2026 • 28:28

Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Philippe Stoll

Philippe Stoll, the Red Cross’s ‘techplomat’, is Inside Geneva’s Summer Profile this week.“I studied economics and I think I could have been a banker or something like that. A good Swiss indeed! But my mother was a volunteer at the Red C...

August 04, 2026 • 27:11

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