It’s been a tough year: Covid as well as crises in Afghanistan and in Myanmar, to name but three. &quot;You see the kind of populist rhetoric, and the xenophobia and racism and so on infecting what were supposedly advanced democracies,&quot; 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.  &quot;I hope we can see a bit more empathy and compassion from the rest of the world,&quot; says Shabio Mantoo of the UN Refugee Agency. They&apos;re joined in the show by regular political analyst, Daniel Warner.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.

What does 2022 hold for Afghanistan?

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.&nbsp;