Inside Geneva
126 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago -A podcast from SWI swissinfo.ch, a multilingual international public service media company from Switzerland, where Imogen Foulkes puts big questions facing the world to the experts working to tackle them in Switzerland’s international city.
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Syria: the forgotten crisis
August 23, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBWhile the spotlight is on Ukraine, the UN says humanitarian needs in Syria are greater than ever. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by humanitarian experts. “The World Food Programme had to reduce by 13% their food rations because of funding,” says Sanjana Quazi, head of office at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Turkey. The UN budget for Syria is underfunded and further devalued by rising food and fuel prices. “What we...
Women, peace, and security
August 09, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBFrom war to food insecurity and climate change; would the world be a better, safer place if women took more decisions? Inside Geneva podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by women peace and security experts. “Participation of women in peace and security, obviously must go beyond an ‘add-women-and-stir’ approach,” says Julia Hofstetter, president of Women in International Security, Switzerland. How well are women represented in security discussions? “Thirty per cent of the...
What do rights groups want from the UN?
July 26, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBBy the end of this month, the UN will have a new human rights chief. It’s sometimes called the UN’s toughest job. Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes talks exclusively to the leaders of the world’s top human rights groups, and asks them how they see the job. Ken Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch: "The High Commissioner has no aid budget, they have no army, they have no way to influence anybody, other than through their public reporting and their public voice." What’s the legac...
What does it take to lead the UN human rights office?
July 12, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBUN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet will leave office at the end of August. The hunt is on for the world’s new human rights leader. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes asks former United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein what it is like to do the job. “Most of my time I was writing to governments, talking to them, calling them, but I had no hesitation of going public when I felt we needed to go public,” says Zeid. Does he have any advice for a new commissione...
Drought and food insecurity
June 28, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBMillions of people are going hungry due to severe droughts in the Sahel and in East Africa. The Inside Geneva podcast looks at how the international community should help, now and in the future. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by climate and humanitarian experts. “Two boys, twins, they’re one year old. They’re severely malnourished, the children and the mother. And she walked 160 kilometres to reach an area where there is some food distribution,” says Rania Dagash, de...
Refugee policy: the good, the bad, and the ugly
June 14, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBEurope has shown a big welcome to refugees from Ukraine. The Inside Geneva podcast asks whether this generosity will be extended to others. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by refugee policy experts. “The Ukraine crisis has really humanised the refugee issue, people have been able to see women, children, men in extremely difficult circumstances,” says Jeff Crisp, an expert on refugee policy with the University of Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre. “As someone who unders...
Neutrality, NATO, and the new world order
May 31, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBThis week on Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes discusses NATO, neutrality, and the new world order. Is neutrality even possible in response to the invasion of Ukraine? Sara Hellmüller, Geneva Graduate Institute: "The law of neutrality is very clear, so the law of neutrality applies to the military domain and says that a country is not allowed to participate in an armed conflict either directly or indirectly." Neutral Finland and Sweden want to join NATO. What does that mean for their neut...
World Health Assembly: lessons learned from the pandemic?
May 17, 2022 10:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBPodcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by global health experts. “We should look at why zoonotic events happen, and maybe start banning wildlife trading. A new pandemic treaty should address the way we grow food and breed animals,” says Nicoletta Dentico, head of the global health programme at the Society for International Development (SID). Zoonotic diseases involve germs spreading between animals and humans. How can we prevent another devastating pandemic? How do we make s...
Press freedom: more important than ever?
May 03, 2022 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBMay 3rd is Press Freedom Day, but around the world, journalists are being harassed, oppressed, even attacked. This Inside Geneve podcast looks how at what more can be done to better journalists. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this by episode by journalists and NGOs that defend press freedom. “We need to work on ending the culture of impunity that governments seem to enjoy when it comes to targeting and harassing journalists,” says Clayton Weimers, Reporters without Borders USA...
Ukraine: can sanctions or war crimes investigations stop the war?
April 19, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBEvidence of atrocities in Ukraine has been met with accusations of war crimes and tougher sanctions against Russia. The Inside Geneva podcast looks at what this means. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by human rights and sanctions experts. “Putin has made Russia a pariah, we have to deal with that at this moment. There are no humanitarian or human rights laws being respected by the Russian government now,” says analyst Daniel Warner. Can sanctions deter Russia in Ukra...
How Ukraine affects other humanitarian crises
April 05, 2022 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBIn a few short weeks, a quarter of Ukraine’s population has been displaced. The Inside Geneva podcast asks what this means for other refugee crises. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by humanitarian experts. “We will respond wherever there are humanitarian needs, regardless of where they are, and we urge that this compassion really be extended to all people who’ve been forced to flee,” says Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). UN emergency...
What to expect from the UN Human Rights Office’s visit to China?
March 22, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBThe UN High Commissioner for Human Rights will visit China, but can she get an accurate picture of the situation? Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by experts on China and human rights. Rights groups accuse Beijing of having interned over a million Uyghurs in so-called “re-education camps” in Xinjiang. “Michelle Bachelet will be the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to set foot in China in 17 years,” says Sophie Richardson, China director at NGO Human Rights ...
War in Ukraine
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBPodcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by international history and human rights experts. “If Russia tries to occupy all of Ukraine, that’s going to end up in a total disaster, and an ongoing civil conflict for years on end. If they divide the country, that’s just going to breed new conflict,” says Jussi Hanhimäki, professor of international history and politics at the Graduate Institute Geneva (IHEID). Can human rights be protected? “If this moves to some form of occupatio...
What does the Human Rights Council mean to victims of atrocities?
February 22, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBPodcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by human rights defenders and investigators. Human rights advocates bring their testimonies of atrocities to the UN – often at great risk to themselves – because it often is their last and only hope. “I survived, I was able to finally leave the country, but if I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ended up in jail, or tortured in prison,” says Khin Ohmar, a human rights defender from Myanmar. “The feeling is always there, that se...
What does the Human Rights Council mean to victims of atrocities?
February 22, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBPodcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by human rights defenders and investigators. Human rights advocates bring their testimonies of atrocities to the UN – often at great risk to themselves – because it often is their last and only hope. “I survived, I was able to finally leave the country, but if I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ended up in jail, or tortured in prison,” says Khin Ohmar, a human rights defender from Myanmar. “The feeling is always there, that se...
Cyber-attacks: what are the risks for aid agencies?
February 08, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIn January the ICRC was hacked, compromising the data of half a million vulnerable people. But how vulnerable are aid agencies themselves to cyber-attacks? Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by cybersecurity and humanitarian experts. “It’s an attack on people who are already living in the anxiety of being separated from their family members and their loved ones. It’s an attack on their dignity, it’s an attack on their privacy,” says Massimo Marelli, head of data protecti...
War and humanitarian aid in the 21st century
January 25, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBHenry Dunant witnessed the horrors of the battle of Solferino in 1859. This gave birth to his vision for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the first Geneva Convention. But how relevant is his vision in the 21st century? Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by humanitarian and international law experts. “Outer space, cyberspace and information space. Warfare is dramatically spreading across three new surfaces,” says Hugo Slim, a senior research fellow ...
What does 2022 hold for Afghanistan?
January 11, 2022 08:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBMillions of Afghans have not been paid for months as foreign aid – which used to fund 75% of Afghanistan’s public spending – was frozen following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by humanitarian aid workers. “You see girls being essentially sold, girls as young as six, seven, eight. You see children being sold into labour. Already, I’ve seen more malnourished children in the past three, four months than I’ve ever se...
2021: a crisis upon a crisis for humanitarian agencies
December 28, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBIt’s been a tough year: Covid as well as crises in Afghanistan and in Myanmar, to name but three. "You see the kind of populist rhetoric, and the xenophobia and racism and so on infecting what were supposedly advanced democracies," Rupert Colville of UN Human Rights tells host Imogen Foulkes. Despite the grim events of the past year, Geneva-based aid agencies do have hopes for a better year ahead. "I hope we can see a bit more empathy and compassion from the rest of the world," says Shab...
What happened in ‘International Geneva’ in 2021?
December 14, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBThe Covid-19 pandemic, a Biden-Putin face-to-face summit and record humanitarian crises: Geneva-based journalists reflect on a busy year and offer a glimpse into the future. Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by fellow Geneva-based correspondents who work for international news outlets. Covid-19 dominated the news for the second year in a row. As the world prepares to enter “Year Three” of the pandemic, the future remains uncertain. “There is no real perspective on when...
Do we need a pandemic treaty?
November 30, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBCovid-19 has dominated our lives for almost two years. Vaccines have been developed in record time, yet nearly half the world’s population has not received a single dose. What has gone wrong? Imogen Foulkes is joined in this podcast episode by global health and policy experts. “How do you solve this in the longer term? You don’t want to be in this situation when this happens again. This could happen next month, if the wrong variant comes out,” says Bruce Aylward, senior advisor to the dire...
Do we need to decolonize aid?
November 16, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBDecolonization has become a buzzword of late, especially in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the toppling of statues of figures tied to a nation's colonial past. Humanitarian work is also being more closely scrutinized. What does it tell us about our colonial history? Imogen Foulkes is joined in this episode by policy experts and aid workers. "If we were to think of aid as a form of reparation, as a form of social justice for historical and continuing harm," says Lata Nar...
COP26: Why the climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis
November 02, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBThe increase in extreme weather events worldwide is evidence that climate change is already impacting our lives. The hardest hit of the global population are people in developing countries. Host Imogen Foulkes puts the spotlight in this episode on what humanitarian agencies are expecting from leaders at COP26, the UN Climate Change conference taking place in Glasgow. "Ninety per cent of the world's refugees originate from countries that are on the front lines of the climate emergency. Ther...
The SDGs: Can we solve all of the world's problems?
October 21, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBIn 2015 the world set itself 17 very ambitious targets: the Sustainable Development Goals. To end hunger, eradicate poverty, ensure health and education for all. But are the SDGs over ambitious? And who decides who is meeting them, and who is backsliding? These are just two of the questions that host Imogen Foulkes puts to: Martin Gutmann, Editor of a multi-author research project on the history of the SDGs, and lecture at the Lucerne University of Applied Arts. Claire Somerville, Lecturer...
How to prevent a cold war in science
October 11, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBDiplomats and scientists often live in different worlds and don’t have open access to each other’s community. A new foundation known as the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA) hopes to bring the two sides together. It took a first step by holding its first summit in the Swiss city from October 7-9. Host Imogen Foulkes went to the event and spoke to Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, former Nestlé CEO, and chairman of GESDA, as well as Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, the Europ...
Extinction: old work habits and hierarchies?
October 05, 2021 08:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBCovid 19 has changed the way we work. But has it changed how we value work? Host Imogen Foulkes asks if our old workplace habits and hierarchies are about to become extinct. She speaks to Chidi King, head of gender diversity and inclusion at the International Labour Organisation. "Re-examining what we deem as a true value of a job has to be one of the outcomes of this pandemic," says King. Cedric Dupont, Professor of International Relations at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, believes ...
Killer robots: should algorithms decide who lives or dies?
September 21, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBIn Geneva, complex negotiations are underway to decide if a treaty is needed to control, or even ban, lethal autonomous weapons – or killer robots. Imogen Foulkes talks to experts, lawyers, and campaigners. "It’s about the risk of leaving life and death decisions to a machine process. An algorithm shouldn’t decide who lives or dies," says Neil Davison, Senior Policy Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross. "Do you hold the commander responsible, who activated the weapons s...
How 9/11 has eroded our human rights
September 07, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBHow have our attitudes to human rights changed since 9/11? What about our laws? Imogen Foulkes is joined by Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism, and Gerald Staberock, Secretary-General of the World Organisation Against Torture. Has it become harder to defend human rights? Fionnuala Ni Aolain: The criminalisation of lawful acts: speech, assembly, political participation, those are all defined, by multiple governments, as terrorism. Gerald Stabe...
Afghanistan: aid agencies are staying
August 24, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThe troops have left Afghanistan but aid agencies say they’re staying. How will that work, with the Taliban back in control? Join host Imogen Foulkes and regular analyst Daniel Warner who are joined by Marie Lequin of Geneva Call, an NGO that works to protect civilians caught up in armed conflicts, Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, and Irwin Loy, Asia Editor of The New Humanitarian, a non-profit newsroom that reports from conflict and crisis-hit areas. "The Taliban has h...
Chocolate, gold, human rights: what’s the Swiss Connection?
August 10, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBIn this episode Imogen Foulkes is joined by Susan Misicka, host of sister podcast The Swiss Connection. We take a deep dive into what one country – Switzerland – is doing to honour the United Nations principles on business respecting human rights. How much child labour is used to produce Swiss chocolate? Why is so much gold refined in Switzerland? And what happens to that gold before it ends up on your finger? Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Ge...
Afghanistan: The forever war?
July 27, 2021 08:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSome call the war in Afghanistan "the forever war". But now the US and NATO are leaving. The conflict is escalating. Inside Geneva tries to figure out what the future might look like. In this episode, host Imogen Foulkes talks to Firouzeh Mitchell, acting head of mission in Afghanistan for Geneva Call; Forozan Rasooli, Deputy Director of Equality for Peace and Democracy; and Vicki Aken, Afghanistan Country Director, International Rescue Committee. Please listen and subscribe to our science...
Human rights: Holding businesses to account
July 13, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBTen years ago, the United Nations adopted a landmark set of guiding principles on business and human rights. "Those who have been harmed by business activity have a right to seek effective remedy through effective process." (Lene Wendland, Chief, Business and Human Rights Section, UN Human Rights Office) But how can we make sure guiding principles are followed? "The UN cannot regulate things at an international level that states already haven’t agreed to regulate at a national level." (Ar...
War crimes: Holding perpetrators to account
June 29, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBHow do we bring war criminals to justice? Who can bring prosecutions? The country where the crimes took place? The International Criminal Court? Or anyone? In this week's episode, Imogen Foulkes talks to Philip Grant, executive director of Trial International, Gerald Staberock, secretary-general of the World Organisation against Torture, and swissinfo.ch journalist, Julia Crawford. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at insi...
War crimes: holding perpetrators to account
June 29, 2021 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBHow do we bring war criminals to justice? Who can bring prosecutions? The country where the crimes took place? The International Criminal Court? Or anyone? In this week's episode, Imogen Foulkes talks to Philip Grant, executive director of Trial International, Gerald Staberock, secretary-general of the World Organisation against Torture, and swissinfo.ch journalist, Julia Crawford.
Biden-Putin: the Geneva summit expectations
June 14, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBGeneva is welcoming two of the most powerful men in the world: US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. What do they hope to gain? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes talks to former US ambassador to Finland Charles Adams, Professor of International Relations Jussi Hanhimaki, and analyst Daniel Warner.
Biden-Putin: The Geneva summit expectations
June 14, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBGeneva is welcoming two of the most powerful men in the world: US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. What do they hope to gain? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes talks to former US ambassador to Finland Charles Adams, Professor of International Relations Jussi Hanhimaki, and analyst Daniel Warner. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinf...
Education: making it a priority in humanitarian emergencies
June 01, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBEducation is fundamental to the life of every child. Not being in school puts children at immediate risk and it ruins their futures. So why does education seem to come a poor second during humanitarian crises? In this episode of Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes talks to experts on education in emergencies, including Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Julienne Vipond, head of the Unicef-led education cluster in Sudan, and Manuel Bessler, head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid. ...
Education: Making it a priority in humanitarian emergencies
June 01, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBEducation is fundamental to the life of every child. Not being in school puts children at immediate risk and it ruins their futures. So why does education seem to come a poor second during humanitarian crises? In this episode of Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes talks to experts on education in emergencies, including Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Julienne Vipond, head of the Unicef-led education cluster in Sudan, and Manuel Bessler, head of Swiss Humanitarian Aid. ...
Finding common ground to battle future pandemics
May 18, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThe 194 members of the World Health Organisation will meet for the annual World Health Assembly from May 24. The body decides global health policy. What could be more important in this pandemic year? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes looks at the challenges that lie ahead. Her guests are Suerie Moon of Geneva’s Global Health Centre, Maria Guevara of Medecins sans Frontieres and Thomas Cueni of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. Please listen and subscribe to our...
Defending the Disappeared
May 04, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBNot knowing the fate of a loved one causes unimaginable heartbreak and anxiety for families. People go missing in wars and natural disasters, but they are also forcibly disappeared. What can families do? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes looks at the United Nations Convention on Enforced Disappearances. How does it work? Does it help prevent disappearances? And why are so many countries reluctant to ratify it? Imogen is joined by Cordula Droege of the International Committee of the Red Cr...
Is the United Nations' top job for men only?
April 20, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBThe United Nations is 75 years old – but there has never been a woman Secretary General. Now Antonio Guterres is standing for a second term, so it will likely be another five years before a woman candidate can have a chance at the UN’s top job. Why is it taking so long? Does Guterres’ record even merit a second term? And why are some senior UN positions traditionally reserved for certain countries? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes talks to Heather Barr, co-director of the Women’s Rights D...
Genocide: why we apply the term sparingly
April 06, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIt is regarded as the worst of all crimes, but what constitutes genocide? How does it differ from crimes against humanity? How are the atrocities of 1970’s Cambodia different from 1990’s Rwanda? What about Myanmar, or Xinjiang in China? Why have so few people ever been convicted of genocide? And why do human rights groups themselves use the term so carefully? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes puts those questions to Paola Gaeta, Professor of International Law at Geneva’s Graduate Institute...
Syria, a decade of war
March 23, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThe war in Syria began 10 years ago this month. Throughout that decade, Geneva has been at the heart of diplomatic efforts towards peace, and at the heart of the humanitarian operation. Were chances for peace missed? Did we expect too much from the aid agencies? Host Imogen Foulkes is joined by Fabrizio Carboni of the ICRC, Jan Egeland, former head of the UN’s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, and Ayman Gharaibeh, of the UN Refugee Agency. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast ...
Is Facebook a danger to democracy?
March 09, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBBillions of us use social media – but how much control do we have over how it uses us? Big tech giant Facebook could block news content for its users in Australia without asking anyone. Authoritarian regimes use social media to promote their sometimes violent policies. Has the information sharing we once thought so liberating become a danger to democracy and to human rights? In this episode host Imogen Foulkes explores these questions with Shalini Randeria of Geneva’s Graduate Institute, Sco...
Are nuclear weapons really banned?
February 23, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBIn January nuclear weapons were banned by international treaty. But the treaty doesn’t apply to any of the nuclear powers, since none of them signed it. So are nukes really banned? In this episode, Imogen Foulkes talks to Cordula Droege, Chief Legal Officer of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Beatrice Fihn of the International Campaign to Ban Nuclear Weapons, and Elaine Whyte Gomez, the ambassador from Costa Rica, who steered the treaty through the United Nations. Please lis...
Covid 19: When hindsight is 20/20
February 09, 2021 09:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBIt’s a year since Covid 19 went global, and we all headed into lockdown. In this episode Imogen Foulkes revisits some eerily prescient interviews we did with health experts Vinh Kim Nguyen of MSF and Margaret Harris of the WHO one year ago – and brings us up to date talking to Suerie Moon of Geneva’s Global Health Centre. We ask: what did we think then, what do we know now, and what have we learned? Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! ...
How strong is US's renewed global commitment?
January 26, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBIn this episode Imogen Foulkes is joined by journalists Gunilla von Hall and Tom Miles, and analyst Daniel Warner, to look at what 2021 might hold. Is the United States’ recommitment to the World Health Organisation a good sign for international Geneva? What about the future of the WHO itself? And how does our own future, our ‘new normal’ look, one year into the pandemic? Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@sw...
Reporting the pandemic, one year on
January 12, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBReporting a public health crisis is a huge responsibility. How do journalists tackle it? Whose message is the right one? Governments? Frontline doctors? Epidemiologists? Or all of them? In this episode, host Imogen Foulkes is joined by swissinfo.ch correspondents Jessica Pluess-Davis and Julia Crawford – and analyst Daniel Warner. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes an...
The global treaty that has saved thousands of lives
December 29, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBSimply known as the Ottawa Treaty, the global convention banning antipersonnel landmines has saved thousands of lives. In the first of a series on landmark treaties, Imogen Foulkes talks to survivors, doctors, and campaigners about how they achieved their goal - and what still needs to be done. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listenin...
Is humanitarian aid broken?
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn a year where crises seem to be everywhere, how will help get to those who need it? And are we even approaching humanitarian aid in the right way? A discussion with guests Rein Paulsen of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Julie Billaud of Geneva's Graduate Institute, and analyst Daniel Warner. Please listen and subscribe to our science podcast -- the Swiss Connection. Get in touch! Email us at [email protected] Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo...