Expert Voices on Atrocity Prevention is a podcast by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. The podcast, hosted by Global Centre Director of Policy and Research 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 Ardi Imseis, Professor of International Law at Queens University, legal counsel to the State of Palestine in their case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and former member of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen. Ardi explains the legal significance of the ICJ’s most recent advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, including how and why the Court’s findings mark an important step in Palestinians’ decades-long struggle for freedom. Ardi also articulates the obligations placed on the international community and provides his perspective on what steps they must take to protect Palestinian populations.