On 7 October 2020 Global Centre Deputy Executive Director Savita Pawnday spoke on the High-level virtual panel discussion on the 15th anniversary of the responsibility to protect, convened by the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the responsibility to protect. The event was moderated by the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, Dr. Karen Smith, brought together five eminent experts involved in the development and implementation of the principle from different parts of the world:

• • • Jan Eliasson, former Deputy-Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of the 60th session of the General Assembly.
    • Juan E. Mendez, Professor of Human Rights Law in Residence at WCL/American University and former Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.
    • Liberata Mulamula, former Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary of Tanzania and former Executive Secretary of International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).
    • Donald Deya, Chief Executive Officer of the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) and Chair of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP).
    • Savita Pawnday, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect.

Ms. Pawnday’s remarks focused on the role of civil society in the development of R2P’s implementation and dispelling misconceptions, early warning, and R2P’s successes.

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