Advocating for Protection

Oct 16 2024 7 ep. 28 mins 2

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Welcome to the Advocating for Protection podcast, where we bring you the real experiences of advocates in conflict and crisis. In each episode join us to speak to those who are lobbying in the corridors of the UN building in New York. Those who are face to face with armed actors at the frontlines of conflict zones. And everything in between. They’ll tell us about their personal experiences, their successes, but also the challenges and how they overcame them.

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“Building trust is everything”: How to reach the person across the table from you?

Oct 16 2024 45 mins

How do you prepare for an engagement with an important or difficult interlocutor? In this episode of Advocating for Protection, Thaer Allaw, the operations manager for Asia and the Middle East North Africa region at the ⁠CCHN⁠, and Major Stuart Thomas, a commander of Canada's high readiness civil military cooperation capability, share with Matt Byrne (⁠ProCap⁠) tips on how

“Women’s issues are human rights priorities”: Advocating for human rights and gender justice in the Arab World

Mar 18 2024 26 mins

Joumana Merhi, the director of the Arab Institute for Human Rights in Lebanon, discusses with Nizar Aouad (Oxfam), human rights and feminist activism in the Arab World. She reflects on her experience as a feminist activist and human rights (HR) defender, outlining the relations and interplay between the two. ٍShe calls on right holders to not give up hope on HR mechanisms and syst

Episode 4 « Soit on avance ensemble, soit on disparaît les uns après les autres » : Plaidoyer pour la protection des civils au Sahel

Jan 19 2024 35 mins

Lorsque le G5 Sahel s'est réuni à Pau, dans le sud de la France, à l'invitation du président français, ils ont formé une coalition dont les piliers directeurs étaient fortement axés sur la sécurité et les réponses militaires. La Coalition Citoyenne Pour le Sahel a été créée par la société civile pour plaider en faveur d'une redéfinition des priorités,

Episode 3: The day our world changed: advocating after invasion

Oct 24 2023 34 mins

Iryna Chaika (Local Development Network) and Oksana Gedz (Right To Protection) discuss with Vittorio Infante (Oxfam) the scaling up from legal assistance work to advocacy and operations supporting Internally Displaced Peoples (IDPs) and their communities after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Both LDN and R2P are active in advocacy spaces at the local and nation

Episode 2 "I have the heart of an advocate": from Yemen to New York

Sep 26 2023 25 mins

Roisin Mangan hears from Lawrence Robinson and Abdulwasea Mohammed (Oxfam) about protection advocacy in global spaces such as the UN in New York. Based on their recent experience, they tell us how Protection of Civilians (PoC) week works, and what's in for the communities affected by conflict in Yemen as well as the role of Member States invested in humanitarian diplomacy. Link

Episode 1: Don’t speak for me, I’ll speak for myself

Aug 28 2023 33 mins

Welcome to the first episode of “Advocating for Protection” hosted by Vittorio Infante, Advocacy advisor at Oxfam, who has a conversation with Gemma Davies, Research Fellow at ODI’s Humanitarian Policy Group, who shares her analysis and recommendations for effective influencing to protect civilians in conflict. Gemma is incredibly knowledgeable about influencing for the benef

Advocating for Protection

Aug 24 2023 1 mins

How do you persuade someone to stop bombing civilians? Not to recruit children as soldiers? That they shouldn’t raid villages to pillage the only food supply? Welcome to the Advocating for Protection podcast, where we bring you the real experiences of advocates in conflict and crisis. This series of Podcasts has been produced in collaboration with the Directorate-General for Eur