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.
Episodes
158 episodes
Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Stéphane Jaquemet
On World Humanitarian Day, Inside Geneva spoke to a man who has dedicated his life to humanitarian work. He grew up in a quiet Swiss village – so what inspired him to take this path?“When I was young, I quickly realised that many people ...
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Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: the Red Cross Museum
Inside Geneva’s fourth summer profile – not a person, but a much-loved museum.“In this museum, we ask an essential question: what does humanitarian action have to do with me, in my life, here and now?” says Pascal Hufschmid, director of ...
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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Rachael Cummings in Gaza
Rachael Cummings of Save the Children is Inside Geneva’s summer profile this week. “When I went into nursing, I also wanted to travel, so nursing gave me that opportunity. That was sort of an 18-year-old thinking, ‘Okay, I can use ...
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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: A Conversation with international lawyer Dapo Akande
Inside Geneva brings you our second summer profile, with international lawyer Dapo Akande.“I’m one of those boring people who actually always wanted to be a lawyer. I’m not sure exactly what the motivation was when I was younger, but I t...
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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat
Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles are back! In this episode we talk to Tammam Aloudat, doctor, aid worker and now journalist. “I was born in Syria, and I spent most of my life there until my mid-20s. I studied there; I went to medical...
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War, Peace and Cake: The World in 2025
2025 has been a year of conflict, upheaval, and huge challenges to the international system. Gunilla von Hall, Svenskadagbladet: "It all started downhill from 20th of January. Since then, it's just, well, ‘the Ukraine war will be ov...
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Gaza's Aid Crisis: The Failed Militarization of Humanitarian Relief
Israel blocked aid into Gaza for 10 weeks. Then the US and Israel came up with a new plan – without the United Nations. Established aid agencies had doubts. Inside Geneva finds out why.Jan Egeland,secretary general, Norwegian Refugee Cou...
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Inside Geneva: pandemics and climate change, can multilateralism still work?
The world just agreed a pandemic treaty. But without the United States. Is it really a milestone?‘‘It is a major step forward. I mean, just imagine if we failed. We would not only go back to the point before the pandemic, before COVID-19...
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Toxic masculinity and the rollback of gender equality
It’s been 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on Women, a landmark agreement to empower women and girls.“The Beijing declaration was such an incredible moment to say that enough is enough. Women are half of humanity and we have to be ...
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Women, girls and cuts to humanitarian aid
On Inside Geneva this week, aid agencies count the costs of funding cuts. “I am most sad for all the millions of people living with HIV and affected by HIV whose lives have been upended. They have lost access to life-saving medicati...
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Multilateralism, the Global South and the future
On Inside Geneva this week, we ask whether the United Nations (UN) and multilateralism have a future.“Is the UN anachronistic? I mean, it was formed after the Second World War. Obviously, it’s getting a little bit dusty,” says political ...
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Democratic rights and freedoms at a crossroads?
The world is changing fast. Are democracy and human rights under threat? Our Inside Geneva podcast takes a deep dive.“Donald Trump is unravelling the constitution, where I believe we could describe this as a coup d'état,” says human righ...
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Inside Geneva: where are women's voices in peace talks?
In Ukraine, and in the Middle East, men say they are negotiating peace. But are they?“Ending war is necessary to peace without a doubt, but ending war does not mean peace. So, whenever these men use the word ‘peace’ in order to say ‘ceas...
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Books to make you think 2025: Are Human Rights Being Ripped Away?
On Inside Geneva this week, we take a step back from the breaking news and talk to the authors of two books about the better side of humanity.“The defence of human rights is not a matter of holding a candle and singing Kumbaya. The defen...
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US-Russia talks on Ukraine: peace or appeasement?
On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Inside Geneva has some big questions about the US-Russia talks this week on ending the war in Ukraine.“Is this really a peace deal or is it just a deal about money? Or is it even ...
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Aid, cuts and consequences
On Inside Geneva, we take a deep dive into the United States’ cuts in foreign aid.“In Colombia, they’ve just had to lay off 200 staff who were doing the demining in the south of the country. So, all of a sudden, these families have no wo...
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Donald Trump, the UN and the future
With Israel banning UNRWA and the US planning to withdraw from WHO, our Inside Geneva podcast reports on a turbulent couple of weeks for United Nations agencies. In Gaza, Israel’s ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency fo...
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What makes a good peace deal?
In this week’s Inside Geneva podcast episode, we ask: what makes a good peace agreement?“Peace is not just a status. Peace is a process, and it’s a process that is part of politics in general,” says Laurent Goetschel from Swisspeace.
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Geneva and climate change, start local and change the world
For our planet, each year brings new climate records, and they’re not good ones.“We now know that 2024 is on track to be the warmest year on record. At the same time, we have accumulated more CO2 than ever in the history of human life o...
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Can the UN and international law survive?
In 2024 there are more than 100 conflicts ongoing, worldwide. A record number of aid workers have been killed. Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator: ‘It’s not just the ferocity of these conflicts, Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Syri...
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How has the world changed in 2024? UN correspondents look back
In this week’s Inside Geneva episode, UN correspondents in Geneva and New York look back at 2024. Dorian Burkhalter, journalist, SWI swissinfo.ch: ‘Wars everywhere, climate change, deepening inequalities, AI…it’s just threats everyw...
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Europe, the UN and the battle for human rights
Is the world still committed to human rights? Our Inside Geneva podcast is in Strasbourg, where the Council of Europe is discussing how to defend the fundamental principles we agreed upon after the Second World War.“We can’t just say, ‘...
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Inside Geneva goes to New York: what really happens at the UN?
This week Inside Geneva goes to New York. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly is hearing multiple reports of serious human rights violations.“I think it’s more difficult to get the human rights message [across] here in New York at t...
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