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A podcast where Imogen Foulkes puts big questions facing the world to the experts working to tackle them in Switzerland’s international city. Produced as part of the Genève Vision media netw...

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Is Afghanistan guilty of gender apartheid?

Send us Fan Mail This week on our Inside Geneva podcast, we ask whether the world has forgotten women in Afghanistan. Under Taliban rule, th...

31:07Oct 13, 2026

From Kabul to Fiji in the fight for gender equality

Send us Fan Mail What takes a woman from a law career in Australia to Somalia, Afghanistan and then…Fiji? On our Inside Geneva podcast, host...

28:55Sep 29, 2026

International Gender Champions speak out

Send us Fan Mail Diversity, equality, inclusion, woke: are these concepts now toxic? The past two years have seen a pushback against gender...

35:28Sep 15, 2026

Gaza: Ceasefire, sort of. Reconstruction, no.

Send us Fan Mail It’s been ten months since the ceasefire in Gaza. Almost a million people still live in tents. There are 60 million tonnes...

30:14Sep 1, 2026

Pushback on human rights: defenders speak out

Send us Fan Mail UN investigations have documented war crimes in Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan. So why is no one being held accountable? Why do so...

28:28Aug 18, 2026

Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Philippe Stoll

Send us Fan Mail Philippe Stoll, the Red Cross’s ‘techplomat’, is Inside Geneva’s Summer Profile this week. “I studied economics and I think...

27:11Aug 4, 2026

Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Trish Newport

Send us Fan Mail Trish Newport of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland is Inside Geneva’s first summer profile this year. “My grandma...

26:31Jul 21, 2026

Can a woman lead the UN?

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we look at the race to be the next UN Secretary-General. Is it time for a change? Susana Malcor...

34:38Jul 7, 2026

Books to make you think

Send us Fan Mail This week, Inside Geneva presents the newest instalment of our “Books to make you think” series. We talk to an author who h...

29:40Jun 23, 2026

What’s the point of foreign aid?

Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid? “What’s the po...

59:27Jun 9, 2026

Is aid failing?

Send us Fan Mail On this week's Inside Geneva podcast episode, we take stock of aid cuts and what they mean for new crises such as Ebola. “I...

37:10May 26, 2026

Who controls landmines and drones?

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva, we look at weapons contamination and the harm it causes. “We have at least one casualty every single day...

32:22May 12, 2026

Challenges to press freedom

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we mark Press Freedom Day. Is there anything to celebrate? Irene Khan, UN Special Rapporteur on...

46:06Apr 28, 2026

Can the UN survive?

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we ask: in a world of violent conflict, is the UN – which was founded to keep the peace – doing...

39:51Apr 14, 2026

Inside Geneva: women in peace

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week: who are the peacemakers? “Women are completely absent in high-level politics and from high-leve...

24:32Mar 31, 2026

Inside Geneva: Myanmar, women and justice

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we look at women fighting for justice. In 2017, Myanmar’s military launched an assault on the R...

30:44Mar 17, 2026

Inside Geneva: what justice means for women in Afghanistan

Send us Fan Mail In August 2021, the Taliban took back control in Afghanistan. Women face unprecedented repression. They can’t go to school...

30:17Mar 3, 2026

What’s our problem with immigration?

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we unpick the divisive topic of migration and asylum. Why are some countries closing their door...

32:26Feb 17, 2026

The Board of Peace, war and impunity

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we take an in-depth look at US President Donald Trump’s new ‘Board of Peace’. Experts on confli...

39:57Feb 3, 2026

Can a science and diplomacy partnership save the world?

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week: world leaders are gathering in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos, but do they have any answers...

32:05Jan 20, 2026