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Podcast: Inside Geneva
Episode: Can the UN's Summit for the Future tackle today’s toughest challenges?
Description: Send us Fan MailThis month the United Nations (UN) will host the ‘Summit of the Future’ in New York. What's the point of this high-level event? Inside Geneva investigates.“The UN is not an entity that does anything. I mean, we can all blame it, but what is the UN? It’s just the sum of its parts: the governments,” says Christiane Oelrich, journalist for the DPA German Press Agency.Is the UN’s 1945 structure even fit for purpose?“Historically the UN for many people is still associated with the West. And the...