Ewelina U. Ochab and David Alton are the authors of State Responses to Crimes of Genocide: What Went Wrong and How to Change It (Springer Nature, 2022) and are interviewed by Jeremy P. Barker, Director, Middle East Action Team, Religious Freedom Institute.

Ewelina Ochab is a human rights advocate, author, and co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response. She works on the topics of genocide, persecution of minoriites around the world, with primary projects including Daesh genocide in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram atrocities in West Africa, atrocities against the Uyghurs, the situation of the Rohingyas, among others.

Lord David Alton served for 18 years as a Member of the House of Commons and now serves as an Independent Crossbench Life Peer in the UK Parliament. He has been a stalwart advocate for human rights around the world bringing international attention to some of the most grave abuses.

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