To mark the 20th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), which was unanimously adopted at the 2005 UN World Summit, the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and R2P released an interview series with experts on human rights and atrocity prevention. Dr. Bakari Sidiki Diaby – Chair of the Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes’ African Working Group, General Coordinator of African Coordination of Human Rights for the Armed Forces (CADHA) and Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) expert – answers the question: “what is the most important milestone of the responsibility to protect achieved in the last twenty years?” In his response, he also highlights his key message to the international community on the occasion of the 20th anniversary.