There is no more daunting challenge for the human rights movement than trying to spare civilians from the litany of abuses associated with the raging conflicts of our time, those that are claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and causing millions to flee across international borders.

Where there once was outrage and demands for action, complacency has set in. How did it come to this? How do we re-energize the ‘Never Again’ movement?

Join Human Rights Watch’s Deputy Director for Global Advocacy, Philippe Bolopion, as he discusses the fight against atrocities in countries including Syria, Yemen, and Myanmar, and Human Rights Watch’s advocacy with the United Nations and how it can be effective.
Presented in partnership with Human Rights Watch

Philippe Bolopion is the Deputy Director for Global Advocacy at Human Rights Watch (HRW), a role he assumed in January 2016. He assists in designing and implementing HRW’s advocacy strategies worldwide and in overseeing the organization’s advocacy response to crisis situations. Bolopion joined HRW as United Nations Director in August 2010 and has traveled extensively to conflict zones, including most recently in Burundi, South Sudan, the CAR, and Mali. Bolopion is the author of Guantanamo: Le Bagne du bout du monde (La Découverte, 2004). He is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux and CUEJ, the journalism school of Strasbourg. Philippe is regularly interviewed and quoted in global press (recent interview on the Rohingya crisis for CNN here). He recently published this essay: Atrocities as the New Normal: Time to Re-Energize the ‘Never Again’ Movement.

Michael Bachelard is the Gold Walkley Award-winning editor of The Age investigations unit and the foreign editor of The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. He has traveled recently to Iraq and across the Middle East to cover Islamic State and the refugee crisis. He is the author of two books.

For more information, please refer to the event webpage at: https://aiiavic.tidyhq.com/public/schedule/events/23321-is-the-world-numb-to-mass-atrocities