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Inside Geneva — 170 episodes

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Books to make you think

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What’s the point of foreign aid?

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Is aid failing?

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Who controls landmines and drones?

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Challenges to press freedom

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Can the UN survive?

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Inside Geneva: women in peace

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Inside Geneva: Myanmar, women and justice

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Inside Geneva: what justice means for women in Afghanistan

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What’s our problem with immigration?

11

The Board of Peace, war and impunity

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Can a science and diplomacy partnership save the world?

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Inside Geneva Special: A bonfire of international law

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Looking back at 2025, and looking forward to 2026

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Peace talks but the war grinds on

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Inside Geneva: Are we throwing away international law?

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Inside Geneva: is climate change the forgotten crisis?

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War and the press

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Taking the pulse of the UN at 80

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Are Democracies Copying Russia's Repressive Playbook?

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Inside Geneva’s final summer profile: ICRC physiotherapist Rieke Hayes

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Is the UN still relevant at 80?

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Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Stéphane Jaquemet

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Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: the Red Cross Museum

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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Rachael Cummings in Gaza

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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: A Conversation with international lawyer Dapo Akande

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Special announcement: Summer Profile 2025 is out now

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Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat

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War, Peace and Cake: The World in 2025

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Gaza's Aid Crisis: The Failed Militarization of Humanitarian Relief

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Inside Geneva: pandemics and climate change, can multilateralism still work?

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Toxic masculinity and the rollback of gender equality

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Women, girls and cuts to humanitarian aid

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Multilateralism, the Global South and the future

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Democratic rights and freedoms at a crossroads?

36

Inside Geneva: where are women's voices in peace talks?

37

Books to make you think 2025: Are Human Rights Being Ripped Away?

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US-Russia talks on Ukraine: peace or appeasement?

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Aid, cuts and consequences

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A new podcast is coming soon

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Donald Trump, the UN and the future

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What makes a good peace deal?

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Geneva and climate change, start local and change the world

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Can the UN and international law survive?

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How has the world changed in 2024? UN correspondents look back

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Europe, the UN and the battle for human rights

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Inside Geneva goes to New York: what really happens at the UN?

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Love for life in Gaza and COP29’s ethical dilemma in Azerbaijan

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Does it matter to the UN who’s in the White House?

50

Special episode: A year of war in the Middle East

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Forty years of the convention against torture: are we honouring it?

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Can the UN's Summit for the Future tackle today’s toughest challenges?

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Special episode: Can the WTO shape a fairer world economy?

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Summer profiles: Recognising and supporting survivors of sexual violence

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Summer profiles: Afghan women’s struggle against Taliban oppression

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Special episode: World Humanitarian Day stories from crisis zones

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Summer profiles: using sport to unite refugees and host communities

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Summer profiles: unlocking treatment for neglected diseases

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Summer profiles: challenges in humanitarian aid with MSF’s Secretary General

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Summer profiles: women defending other women around the world

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Is international law dead?

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Laws that changed our world and the people who fought for them

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Is the world brave enough to agree on a pandemic treaty?

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New wars, new weapons and the Geneva Conventions

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The Rwandan genocide 30 years on: witnessing atrocities - and trying to stop them

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Eyewitness in a Gaza hospital and defending human rights defenders

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Is AI a risk to democracy?

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What’s the future of UNRWA? The Struggle for Balance in Gaza's Aid Operations

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Reflecting on Ukraine's Struggle and Perseverance Two Years into the Russian Invasion

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Humanitarian and business alliances: Reflecting on Earthquake Rescue Efforts in Turkey and Syria

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A look into South Africa’s genocide case against Israel

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Israel, Gaza and the challenge to humanitarianism

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Narratives from the frontlines of human suffering

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Beyond declarations: UN voices reflect on 75 years of human rights advocacy

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Baptism of fire for UN's new human rights chief

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The UN, Peace Week and the Middle East

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Michelle Bachelet's personal fight for human rights

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How the Israeli-Palestinian war challenges humanitarian aid

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The future of human rights in Russia

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The journey of Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein: the sixth UN Human Rights Commissioner

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Inside Geneva's 100th episode: the war in Syria, killer robots and justice in Myanmar

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From Apartheid to the UN: Navi Pillay's experience as Human Rights Commissioner

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Humanitarian Heroes: Personal Tales of Tragedy, Triumph and the Search for the Missing

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Championing Human Rights: The Story of Louise Arbor

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Governing artificial intelligence: Ethics, Risks and Possibilities

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Human rights and those who defend them: Mary Robinson

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What now for women in Afghanistan?

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Universal human rights at 75: who defends them?

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What became of the pandemic treaty?

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Sudan’s tragedy

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ICRC reunites families, Swiss neutrality and weapons exports

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Ukraine, war crimes and Putin

93

Aid Access Dilemmas

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Books to make you think

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How to hold China to account

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How to make peace? The first anniversary of war in Ukraine.

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Earthquakes, aid and politics

98

Challenges for the new UN Human Rights chief

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Cyber Wars

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Afghanistan: aid without women

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Aid agencies reflect on 2022

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UN correspondents look back

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What is the nuclear threat?

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Q&A on migration, asylum and refugees

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COP27, climate change and health

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Helping Ukraine: lessons and challenges

107

Defending human rights in Russia

108

What is the ITU and why does it matter?

109

Day of the Disappeared

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Syria: the forgotten crisis

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Women, peace and security

112

What do rights groups want from the UN?

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What does it take to lead the UN human rights office?

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Drought and food insecurity

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Refugee policy: the good, the bad and the ugly

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Neutrality, NATO and the new world order

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World Health Assembly: lessons learned from the pandemic?

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Press freedom: more important than ever?

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Ukraine: can sanctions or war crimes investigations stop the war?

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How Ukraine affects other humanitarian crises

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What to expect from the UN Human Rights Office’s visit to China?

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War in Ukraine

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What does the Human Rights Council mean to victims of atrocities?

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Cyber-attacks: what are the risks for aid agencies?

125

War and humanitarian aid in the 21st century

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What does 2022 hold for Afghanistan?

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2021: a crisis upon a crisis for humanitarian agencies

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What happened in ‘International Geneva’ in 2021?

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Do we need a pandemic treaty?

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Do we need to decolonize aid?

131

COP26: Why the climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis

132

The SDGs: Can we solve all of the world's problems?

133

How to prevent a cold war in science

134

Extinction: old work habits and hierarchies?

135

Killer robots: should algorithms decide who lives or dies?

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How 9/11 has eroded our human rights

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Afghanistan: aid agencies are staying

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Chocolate, gold, human rights: what’s the Swiss Connection?

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Afghanistan: The forever war?

140

Human rights: Holding businesses to account

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War crimes: Holding perpetrators to account

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Biden-Putin: The Geneva summit expectations

143

Education: Making it a priority in humanitarian emergencies

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Finding common ground to battle future pandemics

145

Defending the Disappeared

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Is the United Nations' top job for men only?

147

Genocide: why we apply the term sparingly

148

Syria, a decade of war

149

Is Facebook a danger to democracy?

150

Are nuclear weapons really banned?

151

Covid 19: When hindsight is 20/20

152

How strong is US's renewed global commitment?

153

Reporting the pandemic, one year on

154

The global treaty that has saved thousands of lives

155

Is humanitarian aid broken?

156

What does a new US president mean for international Geneva?

157

Africa and Covid-19: What can be learned?

158

Special episode: The future of the United Nations

159

Who holds aid agencies accountable?

160

Coping with coronavirus as winter looms

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Aid agencies face racism accusations

162

Unalienable rights, unpacked

163

Can Covid-19 'vaccine multilateralism' work?

164

World trade at a crossroads

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Why can’t we unite in the face of a global health crisis?

166

In charge at the UN in trying times

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What’s the point of multilateralism? The UN at 75

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Pandemics and power

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Coronavirus: global scenarios and impact

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A decade of war in Syria