Inside Geneva
SWI swissinfo.chInside 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.
Women, girls and cuts to humanitarian aid
Apr 29 • 45m
Multilateralism, the Global South and the future
Apr 15 • 35m
Aid, cuts and consequences
Feb 18 • 43m
A new podcast is coming soon
Feb 11 • 2m
Donald Trump, the UN and the future
Feb 4 • 43m
What makes a good peace deal?
Jan 21 • 31m
Can the UN and international law survive?
Dec 24, 2024 • 38m
How has the world changed in 2024? UN correspondents look back
Dec 10, 2024 • 34m
Europe, the UN and the battle for human rights
Nov 26, 2024 • 31m
Inside Geneva goes to New York: what really happens at the UN?
Nov 12, 2024 • 31m
Love for life in Gaza and COP29’s ethical dilemma in Azerbaijan
Oct 29, 2024 • 43m
Does it matter to the UN who’s in the White House?
Oct 15, 2024 • 38m
Special episode: A year of war in the Middle East
Oct 7, 2024 • 32m
Forty years of the convention against torture: are we honouring it?
Oct 1, 2024 • 31m
Can the UN's Summit for the Future tackle today’s toughest challenges?
Sep 17, 2024 • 36m
Special episode: Can the WTO shape a fairer world economy?
Sep 10, 2024 • 35m
Summer profiles: Afghan women’s struggle against Taliban oppression
Aug 20, 2024 • 25m
Special episode: World Humanitarian Day stories from crisis zones
Aug 19, 2024 • 30m
Summer profiles: using sport to unite refugees and host communities
Aug 6, 2024 • 24m
Summer profiles: unlocking treatment for neglected diseases
Jul 23, 2024 • 30m
Summer profiles: women defending other women around the world
Jun 25, 2024 • 22m
Is international law dead?
Jun 11, 2024 • 51m
Special announcement: Please Join us for a Live Recording in Geneva!
May 30, 2024 • 1m
Laws that changed our world and the people who fought for them
May 28, 2024 • 30m
Is the world brave enough to agree on a pandemic treaty?
May 14, 2024 • 35m
New wars, new weapons and the Geneva Conventions
Apr 30, 2024 • 26m
Eyewitness in a Gaza hospital and defending human rights defenders
Apr 2, 2024 • 32m
Is AI a risk to democracy?
Mar 19, 2024 • 40m
A look into South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Jan 23, 2024 • 31m
Israel, Gaza and the challenge to humanitarianism
Jan 9, 2024 • 29m
Narratives from the frontlines of human suffering
Dec 26, 2023 • 35m
Baptism of fire for UN's new human rights chief
Nov 28, 2023 • 23m
The UN, Peace Week and the Middle East
Nov 14, 2023 • 40m
Michelle Bachelet's personal fight for human rights
Oct 31, 2023 • 25m
How the Israeli-Palestinian war challenges humanitarian aid
Oct 24, 2023 • 30m
The future of human rights in Russia
Oct 17, 2023 • 30m
Championing Human Rights: The Story of Louise Arbor
Aug 8, 2023 • 33m
Governing artificial intelligence: Ethics, Risks and Possibilities
Jul 25, 2023 • 44m
Human rights and those who defend them: Mary Robinson
Jul 11, 2023 • 30m
What now for women in Afghanistan?
Jun 27, 2023 • 34m
Universal human rights at 75: who defends them?
Jun 13, 2023 • 23m
What became of the pandemic treaty?
May 30, 2023 • 36m
Sudan’s tragedy
May 15, 2023 • 28m
ICRC reunites families, Swiss neutrality and weapons exports
May 2, 2023 • 39m
Ukraine, war crimes and Putin
Apr 18, 2023 • 38m
Aid Access Dilemmas
Apr 4, 2023 • 31m
Books to make you think
Mar 21, 2023 • 42m
How to hold China to account
Mar 7, 2023 • 27m
How to make peace? The first anniversary of war in Ukraine.
Feb 23, 2023 • 44m
Earthquakes, aid and politics
Feb 14, 2023 • 30m
Challenges for the new UN Human Rights chief
Feb 7, 2023 • 25m
Cyber Wars
Jan 24, 2023 • 28m
Afghanistan: aid without women
Jan 10, 2023 • 26m
Aid agencies reflect on 2022
Dec 27, 2022 • 35m
UN correspondents look back
Dec 13, 2022 • 31m
What is the nuclear threat?
Nov 29, 2022 • 35m
Q&A on migration, asylum and refugees
Nov 15, 2022 • 39m
COP27, climate change and health
Nov 1, 2022 • 32m
Helping Ukraine: lessons and challenges
Oct 18, 2022 • 44m
Defending human rights in Russia
Oct 4, 2022 • 30m
What is the ITU and why does it matter?
Sep 20, 2022 • 27m
Day of the Disappeared
Sep 6, 2022 • 32m
Syria: the forgotten crisis
Aug 23, 2022 • 36m
Women, peace and security
Aug 9, 2022 • 36m
What do rights groups want from the UN?
Jul 26, 2022 • 32m
What does it take to lead the UN human rights office?
Jul 12, 2022 • 26m
Drought and food insecurity
Jun 28, 2022 • 32m
Refugee policy: the good, the bad and the ugly
Jun 14, 2022 • 32m
Neutrality, NATO and the new world order
May 31, 2022 • 33m
World Health Assembly: lessons learned from the pandemic?
May 17, 2022 • 33m
Press freedom: more important than ever?
May 3, 2022 • 34m
Ukraine: can sanctions or war crimes investigations stop the war?
Apr 19, 2022 • 36m
How Ukraine affects other humanitarian crises
Apr 5, 2022 • 28m
What to expect from the UN Human Rights Office’s visit to China?
Mar 22, 2022 • 34m
War in Ukraine
Mar 8, 2022 • 36m
What does the Human Rights Council mean to victims of atrocities?
Feb 22, 2022 • 39m
Cyber-attacks: what are the risks for aid agencies?
Feb 8, 2022 • 33m
War and humanitarian aid in the 21st century
Jan 25, 2022 • 37m
What does 2022 hold for Afghanistan?
Jan 11, 2022 • 28m
2021: a crisis upon a crisis for humanitarian agencies
Dec 28, 2021 • 28m
What happened in ‘International Geneva’ in 2021?
Dec 14, 2021 • 32m
Do we need a pandemic treaty?
Nov 30, 2021 • 29m
Do we need to decolonize aid?
Nov 16, 2021 • 37m
COP26: Why the climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis
Nov 2, 2021 • 32m
The SDGs: Can we solve all of the world's problems?
Oct 21, 2021 • 43m
How to prevent a cold war in science
Oct 11, 2021 • 26m
Extinction: old work habits and hierarchies?
Oct 5, 2021 • 30m
Killer robots: should algorithms decide who lives or dies?
Sep 21, 2021 • 29m
How 9/11 has eroded our human rights
Sep 7, 2021 • 33m
Afghanistan: aid agencies are staying
Aug 24, 2021 • 36m
Chocolate, gold, human rights: what’s the Swiss Connection?
Aug 10, 2021 • 28m
Afghanistan: The forever war?
Jul 27, 2021 • 30m
Human rights: Holding businesses to account
Jul 13, 2021 • 34m
War crimes: Holding perpetrators to account
Jun 29, 2021 • 37m
Biden-Putin: The Geneva summit expectations
Jun 14, 2021 • 33m
Education: Making it a priority in humanitarian emergencies
Jun 1, 2021 • 27m
Finding common ground to battle future pandemics
May 18, 2021 • 29m
Defending the Disappeared
May 4, 2021 • 33m
Is the United Nations' top job for men only?
Apr 20, 2021 • 34m
Genocide: why we apply the term sparingly
Apr 6, 2021 • 35m
Syria, a decade of war
Mar 23, 2021 • 35m
Is Facebook a danger to democracy?
Mar 9, 2021 • 36m
Are nuclear weapons really banned?
Feb 23, 2021 • 29m
Covid 19: When hindsight is 20/20
Feb 9, 2021 • 24m
How strong is US's renewed global commitment?
Jan 26, 2021 • 35m
Reporting the pandemic, one year on
Jan 12, 2021 • 38m
The global treaty that has saved thousands of lives
Dec 29, 2020 • 31m
Is humanitarian aid broken?
Dec 15, 2020 • 35m
What does a new US president mean for international Geneva?
Dec 1, 2020 • 39m
Africa and Covid-19: What can be learned?
Nov 17, 2020 • 29m
Special episode: The future of the United Nations
Nov 3, 2020 • 54m
Who holds aid agencies accountable?
Oct 27, 2020 • 30m
Coping with coronavirus as winter looms
Oct 13, 2020 • 29m
Aid agencies face racism accusations
Oct 5, 2020 • 27m
Unalienable rights, unpacked
Aug 29, 2020 • 29m
Can Covid-19 'vaccine multilateralism' work?
Jul 24, 2020 • 33m
World trade at a crossroads
Jul 9, 2020 • 36m
Why can’t we unite in the face of a global health crisis?
Jun 30, 2020 • 32m
In charge at the UN in trying times
Jun 16, 2020 • 24m
What’s the point of multilateralism? The UN at 75
May 26, 2020 • 34m
Pandemics and power
Apr 28, 2020 • 31m
Coronavirus: global scenarios and impact
Apr 9, 2020 • 22m
A decade of war in Syria
Mar 27, 2020 • 26m
The United Nations and China
Mar 22, 2020 • 33m
What should we be doing about human rights violations?
Mar 7, 2020 • 35m
How to deal with coronavirus?
Feb 11, 2020 • 33m
Why humanitarian groups go to Davos
Jan 22, 2020 • 36m
What kind of year will it be for the UN?
Jan 12, 2020 • 29m
Humanitarians and counter-terror laws
Dec 17, 2019 • 28m
How to cope with killer robots
Nov 21, 2019 • 29m
Potential and pitfalls for Syrian peace talks
Oct 31, 2019 • 24m
How the Human Rights Council works
Oct 6, 2019 • 29m
Populist rhetoric and humanitarian work
Sep 7, 2019 • 24m
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