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 Nicolas Agostini, Representative to the United Nations in Geneva at DefendDefenders. Drawing on his extensive experience in Geneva, Nico shares a wealth of knowledge on the creation of UN Human Rights Council (HRC) mechanisms and the evolution of their mandates over time. Nico highlights the value of HRC investigations and the importance of ensuring the findings are accessible to the communities who have endured grave human rights abuses and atrocity risks. Nico also discusses the challenge in maintaining international scrutiny of protracted crises and what civil society organizations are doing to collectively address remaining gaps in multilateral response.