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7 Jul

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 Malcorra, candidate for UN Secretary-General 2016: 'I am deeply convinced this is a moment that requires a different type of leadership, and we have tested leadership nine leaders throughout 80 years that were all men.' Geneva recently hosted three of the candidates – we hear from them. What are their plans? Rebeca Grynspan, candidate for Secretary-General: 'My criteria of success as secretary general is that nobody will ask me again: Where is the UN?' If that question continues we will be irrelevant.' What are the UN's challenges? María Fernanda Espinosa, candidate for Secretary-General: 'I think the UN does not suffer from a crisis of purpose or principles enshrined in the Charter. It suffers from a crisis of delivery of impact, of accountability, and of inclusion.' And what does it still have to offer? Michelle Bachelet, candidate for Secretary-General: 'Multilateralism has a lot of problems, but if you didn't have a multilateral system, children in the refugee camps wouldn't have vaccines. People displacement wouldn't have support. So there's a lot of things that multilateralism has done and we need to improve.' Join host Imogen Foulkes on Inside Geneva. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
26/07/2022

What do rights groups want from the UN?

Send us Fan Mail By 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 legacy of outgoing commissioner Michelle Bachelet? Agnes Callamard, Secretary General, Amnesty International: "She stood up to the United States on the issue of systemic racism, as she should have." What about the controversial trip to China? Ken Roth: "If you look at for example Madam Bachelet’s utter failure during her recent trip to Beijing, the blame really beings with Guterres." What are the challenges for the new commissioner? Agnes Callamard: "If you cannot stand up to China, you may as well stop doing human rights work." Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
9 Jun

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 point of mobilising taxpayers’ money and sending it to faraway countries to assist vulnerable people? And how do you sell that to your own taxpayers?” says Gilles Carbonnier, former Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There are more conflicts and greater needs, yet donor countries want to spend less. “What’s the point of mobilising taxpayers’ money and sending it to faraway countries to assist vulnerable people? And how do you sell that to your own taxpayers?” says Gilles Carbonnier, former Vice-President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). There are more conflicts and greater needs, yet donor countries want to spend less. Do we think some people’s tragedies are less important than others? If a child is in pain in Khartoum, that’s exactly the same as a child being in pain in New York or London. If a mother is grieving in Gaza, that’s exactly the same as a mother grieving in Geneva,” says Chris Lockyear, former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF). How can aid agencies better explain what they do? “What defines us is humanity, and humanity means we cannot stay idle when we see others suffering. We have to act and do something to try to protect them, assist them and prevent suffering, regardless of where this happens,” says Carbonnier. Listen to the full episode on Inside Geneva. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
30 Mar

Wie schafft es die Schweiz, ihre Armee noch rechtzeitig aufzurüsten?

Wir reden darüber, warum die Schweizer Armee aktuell nicht stark genug ist, obwohl die Bedrohungslage in Europa spürbar zunimmt. Wir ordnen ein, weshalb am Ende fast alles bei Geld, Vertrauen und bei der Frage landet, ob die Schweiz den Ernst der Lage akzeptiert. • Zustand der Armee und Frage der Durchhaltefähigkeit • Bedrohungslage in Europa mit Blick auf Russland und die Eskalationsrisiken • Angriffe aus der Distanz als wahrscheinlichstes Szenario, Fokus auf Raketen und Drohnen • Lücken bei Luftverteidigung und dringender Bedarf an Drohnenabwehr und eigenen Systemen • Finanzierungskonflikt rund um 0,8 Prozentpunkte Mehrwertsteuer und Grenzen von Sparpaketen • Vertrauenskrise im VBS, Negativschlagzeilen und die neue Transparenz • F-35 und die laufenden Beschaffungsprojekte: gibt es Alternativen? • Neutralität, Kriegsmaterialgesetz und Spannungen mit europäischen Partnern bei Wiederausfuhren • Milizsystem, schwindende Verankerung der Armee. Gibt es ein Umdenken bei den Jüngeren? •
15/06/2023

Let's Talk: Die Macht der Auslandschweizer:innen

Die Schweiz startet in ein Wahljahr. Die Parteien realisieren, dass Schweizerinnen und Schweizer im Ausland entscheidend werden können. Noch nie war dieses Elektorat mächtiger – und noch nie so gut ansprechbar.Das Elektorat der Auslandschweizer:innen ist in den letzten 25 Jahren enorm gewachsen, von 63'000 auf 211'000. So gross war im Jahr 2021 die Zahl der Schweizer AuslandbürgerI:innen, die sich ins Stimmregister eingetragen hatten. Woher dieses Wachstum? Ariane Rustichelli, die Direktorin der Auslandschweizer-Organisation ASO, sieht den Grund in einem veränderten Emigrationsverhalten: Schweizerinnen und Schweizer wandern seit rund 30 Jahren nicht mehr für immer aus, sagt sie, sondern temporär, für einige Jahre. Oft erfolge diese temporäre Auswanderung berufsbedingt mit der Aussicht auf Rückkehr. "Das bedeutet, dass die Verbundenheit zur Schweiz viel stärker ist", sagt Rustichelli in "Let’s talk" von swissinfo.ch. More details on this story on Swiss abroad can be found on SWI swissinfo.ch
08/07/2025

Inside Geneva's Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat

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. “I was born in Syria, and I spent most of my life there until my mid-20s. I studied there; I went to medical school there,” says the CEO of The New Humanitarian. Was being a doctor in Syria his first choice? “One of the first side effects of autocratic dictatorships is that there isn’t really work outside a few private enterprises, one of which is being an engineer, a lawyer, or a doctor,” he says. A chance meeting with a British Red Cross official led him into humanitarian work. “And a couple of years later, when I wanted to go out and work for the Red Cross, it was him who gave me a contract with the British Red Cross and sent me to Iraq. I mean, arguably not the nicest thing to do to someone, but it was exactly what I had asked for.” But the disastrous consequences of that conflict made him question his work, and the traditional neutrality of humanitarianism. “Can we afford to only put roofs over people's heads and do nothing about the system? If your house was bombed for the first time, I understand. If it was bombed for the 17th time, and instead of a house you have a tarp, and instead of food, you have animal feed or grass to eat,” Aloudat says. Join host Imogen Foulkes on Inside Geneva for a fascinating discussion. Get in touch! Email us at insidegeneva@swissinfo.chTwitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_enThank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva please visit www.swissinfo.ch/ Host: Imogen Foulkes Production assitant: Claire-Marie Germain Distribution: Sara Pasino Marketing: Xin Zhang
09/12/2025

Von der Fremdsprache zur zweiten Muttersprache – das sind die Tricks

Mehrsprachigkeit gehört für viele Schweizer:innen im Ausland zum Alltag – oft selbstverständlich, manchmal herausfordernd, immer prägend. Doch wie verändert eine neue Sprache unser Denken und Handeln? In der dritten Episode von «Ade merci, Schweiz» sprechen die Auslandschweizerin Angela Herren und Linguistin Giulia Berchio über die Realität eines Lebens zwischen Sprachen: kulturelle Unterschiede, humorvolle Missverständnisse, unübersetzbare Begriffe und die kognitive Beweglichkeit, die Mehrsprachigkeit mit sich bringt. Und darüber, wie Sprache Identität formt – weit über Worte hinaus. Alle Episoden sind in der kostenlosen SWI plus App und auf allen gängigen Plattformen verfügbar – auf Deutsch und Französisch
18/02/2025

Lost Cells is out now!

Send us Fan Mail Please sign up for the latest episode SWI swissinfo.ch's new podcast tells the story of the families affected by a private stem cell banking scandal with Switzerland at its heart. Subscribe for free to our new podcast ‘Lost Cells’ wherever you get your podcasts. Episode one is released on February 18, 2025. Listen to this new podcast in English // French // Spanish SWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.
18/11/2025

Big Pharma steps up race for AI-discovered drugs

Send us Fan Mail What if the most valuable drug candidates aren’t found but designed on demand? We follow a chemist’s journey from a pencil-and-paper notebook to generative algorithms that propose novel, IP-free molecules tailored to specific targets, and we open the door to how Swiss pharma is rebuilding discovery around AI. To read more about this topic and for more science stories, visit our website swisinfo.ch. You can help other people to find our podcast by leaving us a five-star review. Journalist: Jessica Davis Plüss Host: Jo Fahy Audio editor/video journalist: Michele Andina Distribution and Marketing: Xin Zhang SWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.
12/06/2025

Let's talk: Die Weltwirtschaft ordnet sich neu: Was heisst das für die Schweiz?

Die USA und China verschärfen ihre Handelspolitik. Was macht das mit der Schweiz? Und wie läuft die Wirtschaft in der EU? Hier ist unser "Let's talk" zum Schweizer Aussenhandel.

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