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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Send us Fan Mail 2026 has started with some momentous events. Israel has banned dozens of aid agencies. What are the consequences? “We’re su...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Inside Geneva , we discuss the key stories of 2025 that we know will continue to make the news in 2026. “The t...

Send us Fan Mail Inside Geneva joins aid workers staying in Ukraine this December. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) supports tens of thousands...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week: what does international law mean to you? “When your government is not there to uphold your righ...

Send us Fan Mail COP30 has ended without a firm commitment to phase out fossil fuels. Inside Geneva talks to some campaigners who remain sur...

Send us Fan Mail How do journalists report on war when they’re denied access? “For the first time I think since the Second World War, Israel...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Inside Geneva , we take the pulse of the United Nations as it turns 80. “Someone celebrating their 80th birthd...

Send us Fan Mail On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we ask: are other countries following Russia’s lead in cracking down on freedom of...

Send us Fan Mail This week, in the final episode of our Summer Profiles series on the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes talks to Ir...

Send us Fan Mail The United Nations General Assembly has officially opened and the organisation marked its 80th anniversary. Inside Geneva a...

Send us Fan Mail On World Humanitarian Day, Inside Geneva spoke to a man who has dedicated his life to humanitarian work. He grew up in a qu...

Send us Fan Mail Inside Geneva’s fourth summer profile – not a person, but a much-loved museum. “In this museum, we ask an essential questio...

Send us Fan Mail Rachael Cummings of Save the Children is Inside Geneva’s summer profile this week. “When I went into nursing, I also wanted...

Send us Fan Mail Inside Geneva brings you our second summer profile, with international lawyer Dapo Akande. “I’m one of those boring people...

Send us Fan Mail Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If y...

Send us Fan Mail Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles are back! In this episode we talk to Tammam Aloudat, doctor, aid worker and now journalist....

Send us Fan Mail 2025 has been a year of conflict, upheaval, and huge challenges to the international system. Gunilla von Hall, Svenskadagbl...

Send us Fan Mail Israel blocked aid into Gaza for 10 weeks. Then the US and Israel came up with a new plan – without the United Nations. Est...

Send us Fan Mail The world just agreed a pandemic treaty. But without the United States. Is it really a milestone? ‘‘It is a major step forw...

Send us Fan Mail It’s been 30 years since the Beijing Declaration on Women, a landmark agreement to empower women and girls. “The Beijing de...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, aid agencies count the costs of funding cuts. “I am most sad for all the millions of people liv...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we ask whether the United Nations (UN) and multilateralism have a future. “Is the UN anachronis...

Send us Fan Mail The world is changing fast. Are democracy and human rights under threat? Our Inside Geneva podcast takes a deep dive. “Dona...

Send us Fan Mail In Ukraine, and in the Middle East, men say they are negotiating peace. But are they? “Ending war is necessary to peace wit...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we take a step back from the breaking news and talk to the authors of two books about the bette...

Send us Fan Mail On the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Inside Geneva has some big questions about the US-Russia talks th...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva, we take a deep dive into the United States’ cuts in foreign aid. “In Colombia, they’ve just had to lay of...

Send us Fan Mail Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If y...

Send us Fan Mail With Israel banning UNRWA and the US planning to withdraw from WHO, our Inside Geneva podcast reports on a turbulent couple...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Inside Geneva podcast episode, we ask: what makes a good peace agreement? “Peace is not just a status. Peace...

Send us Fan Mail 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail In 2024 there are more than 100 conflicts ongoing, worldwide. A record number of aid workers have been killed. Tom Fletcher...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s Inside Geneva episode, UN correspondents in Geneva and New York look back at 2024. Dorian Burkhalter, journa...

Send us Fan Mail Is the world still committed to human rights? Our Inside Geneva podcast is in Strasbourg, where the Council of Europe is di...

Send us Fan Mail This week Inside Geneva goes to New York. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly is hearing multiple reports of serious h...

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week we talk to the people behind a new book about life in Gaza, told through the words of those who...

Send us Fan Mail The presidential elections in the United States (US) are just a couple of weeks away. What will they mean for international...

Send us Fan Mail It’s been one year since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. Twelve months of violent conflict have followed, with ten...

Send us Fan Mail For 40 years, there has been an absolute ban on torture. But it still happens… “Horrific things can happen to you. Nobody i...

Send us Fan Mail This month the United Nations (UN) will host the ‘Summit of the Future’ in New York. What's the point of this high-lev...

Send us Fan Mail The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum is underway in Geneva and its key theme is ‘re-globalisation’. Are we nervo...

Send us Fan Mail Conflict-related sexual violence has existed for as long as war itself – forever. “It is a weapon of war. I would say it’s...