<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms">Send us a text</a>2025 has been a year of conflict, upheaval, and huge challenges to the international system. Gunilla von Hall, Svenskadagbladet: "It all started downhill from 20th of January. Since then, it's just, well, ‘the Ukraine war will be over in 24 hours?’ Nothing happened. It just got worse. Then we had Gaza, then we have Iran, Israel. Then we had the cuts of all the aid. It's very bleak. I think we should just not give up our hope, but it looks really... We have four years."The humanitarian work Geneva does has been decimated. Nick Cumming-Bruce, contributor, New York Times: "What is disturbing is the very casual destruction of international institutions and agreements that have been pulled together over many years, decades of works since World War II, and which for all their many imperfections are trying, with some cases significant success, to address the critical challenges that the world faces."Is everything bleak? Or can we find some hope somewhere?Imogen Foulkes, host of Inside Geneva: "These are hard times and people I think are very anxious at the moment. Maybe we should still pay tribute, hat tip, to the humanitarian work that comes out of Geneva. People who, they don't live peacefully here in this quiet city. They are in Gaza, they are in Sudan, they are in Afghanistan."Listen to Inside Geneva for a review of the first six months of a momentous year.Get in touch! <ul> <li>Email us at <a href='mailto:insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch'>insidegeneva@swissinfo.ch</a> </li> <li>Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en</li> </ul> Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the<a href='https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/international-geneva/'> international Geneva </a>please visit <a href='https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/'>www.swissinfo.ch/</a> Host: <a href='https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/imogen-foulkes/'>Imogen Foulkes </a>Production assitant: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairemarie4ba1ab16a/'>Claire-Marie Germain</a> Distribution: <a href='https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/author/sara-pasino/'>Sara Pasino</a> Marketing: <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/xin-zhang-70327481/'>Xin Zhang</a>

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