This week Inside Geneva podcast host Imogen Foulkes talks to authors who have written about humanitarian topics.
What is it like to track down human rights violators?
\u201cEach day in court, seeing Hiss\xe8ne Habr\xe9 I would pump my fist: \u2018my God, we got him.\u2019 But you never knew, and I have to say when they started reading the verdict it was such joy, but it was also a relief. I mean I felt like after 16 years, this weight had been lifted off me. I could finally recover my life,\u201d says Reed Brody, author of To Catch a Dictator (2022).
What are the dilemmas facing journalists covering humanitarian crises? Why should one particular crisis have more attention?
\u201cThe more coverage of Ukraine, or the recent earthquake in Syria and Turkey; the more coverage a crisis gets the more likely audiences are to be aware of it, to care about it, and to donate to it,\u201d says Martin Scott, author of Humanitarian Journalists (2022).
What is the dark reality of fortress Europe\u2019s migration policy?
\u201cSuddenly you\u2019re in direct communication with a person who is telling you they\u2019ve been locked up indefinitely, they\u2019re being tortured, they\u2019re seeing people raped or seeing people die as a result of European Union migration policy. And that\u2019s the moment when you go: \u2018wait a second, something has gone desperately wrong,\u2019\u201d says Sally Hayden, author of My Fourth Time, We Drowned (2022).
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