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. Pari Ibrahim, Executive Director of the Free Yezidi Foundation – one of the 2023 Raphael Lemkin Champions of Prevention – calls for a reaffirmation of our commitment to the responsibility to protect, twenty years after its adoption. She states, “by now, we all know that genocides does not happen overnight (…) We can prevent genocide if we react and make sure that the frameworks actually work on the ground.”