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Katherine Southwick is a consultant adviser on Atrocity Prevention project at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum on the role of domestic criminal justice systems in atrocity prevention. She previously worked for over a decade on human rights, statelessness, and legal reform in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. She worked for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Washington DC and the Philippines on programs relating to judicial reform and the ASEAN human rights system. As a research fellow at Refugees International, she conducted research and advocacy on the global problem of statelessness. She has clerked

David Kilgour is a human-rights activist, author, former lawyer, and Canadian politician. He served as an MP in the Canadian parliament for nearly 30 years, held the position of Secretary of State for Africa and Latin American, and subsequently for Asia. A lifelong practicing Christian, Kilgour has worked on issues such as inter-faith dialog, personal freedoms, and democratic government throughout his career. In Parliament, he was active in prayer groups while at venues and publications across the country he has spoken specifically on religious themes and politics. Commonly, his topics have been on global religious and political persecutions. With David

A conversation with Tomás Ojea Quintana, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea This conversation covers: 1) On his early whistle – “elements of a genocide” – in April 2014 on Myanmar genocide2) His criticism of Rangoon-based diplomats who called his UN-mandated human rights investigation “toxic”3) The Universal Jurisdiction case by BROUK in Argentina – against Burmese monks, politicians, and generals with criminal responsibility including Thein Sein, Min Aung Hlaing, Wirathu and Aung San Suu Kyi4) On racism of 88 Generation Leadership such as Ko Ko Gyi5) The crimes against humanity against non-Rohingya ethnic

Tapan podcast touches on: 1) Police Brutality, Class and Caste in India2) The issues affecting Rohingya refugees in India and3) The half-century of human rights activism fighting progressive causes Tapan Kumar Bose is a New Delhi-based Indian documentary film director, human rights activist, journalist and writer. Among his films are Bhopal: Beyond Genocide (1986) and An Indian Story (1981), about the extreme police brutality in the State of Bihar documenting how the state police resorted to widespread cruel act of blinding criminal suspects and how  the state authorities and lawmakers attempted to cover up the blinding.Tapan has been active in protection of refugees

Tasnim Nazeer is an award-winning journalist, author, producer and creative writer who has written for a variety of print and online publications including The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera English, The Guardian, TRT World, BBC Radio 2 and many more. This conversation covers: 1) The life as a mother, a wife, a human rights activist, a British Muslim journalist and writer2) Islamophobia in the Western countries such as France and UK3) The politics and racism of her ancestral birthplace of Sri Lanka and4) Rohingya genocide

A conversation with Professor C. R. Abrar, Chair of Odhikar (Rights), Bangladeshi human rights watchdog, on the FRC Genocide Podcast Series covers: 1) Bangladesh state’s persecution of the Urdu speaking Bengalis in Dhaka branded as “traitors”2) Myanmar’s continuing genocide of Rohingya people3) Odhikar’s human rights monitoring work and4) Research and activism on refugee and migratory movements Dr. C R Abrar is the Executive Director of Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit (RMMRU), the premier migration think tank in Bangladesh. He taught International Relations at the University of Dhaka for four decades. His areas of research and advocacy include Rohingya refugees,

Imran GardaBorn in South Africa with more than a decade and a half of experience presenting and producing for international television and digital media  Imran. Currently based in Istanbul.Host of The Newsmakers, the flagship current affairs show of TRT World and an award-winning author.Also presenter of the documentary series Crossing the Line and Focal Point (including films inside North Korea and embedded with the KKK). Also served as Acting Executive Producer. Former host of Third Rail on Al Jazeera America in NYC and senior presenter and producer on AJ+ in San Francisco. Helped launch AJ+ and served as Acting Executive Producer