Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention is a podcast by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. The podcast, hosted by Global Centre Deputy Executive Director Jaclyn Streitfeld-Hall, features one-on-one conversations with practitioners from the field of human rights, conflict prevention, atrocity prevention and other related agendas. These conversations aim to provide a glimpse of the personal and professional side of how practitioners approach human rights protection and atrocity prevention. The podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube. Please subscribe for new episodes.

In this episode, we sat down with Eric Tistounet, founder of the Lake Room Initiative and former Chief of the Human Rights Branch at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. During the discussion, Eric reflects on 20 years since the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and how it has responded to human rights crises across the globe. The conversation also explores the Council’s unique tools for atrocity prevention, the gap between Geneva and New York and what reforms could strengthen the HRC’s effectiveness in an increasingly polarized international system.