Other

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

Migrated podcast image for: Outlook

Outlook

Factual: Life Stories

True stories of ordinary people and the extraordinary events that have shaped their lives.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

Outlook: Why I talk to warlords

Magazines & Reviews

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

16/07/2020 GMT

Why I talk to warlords

BBC World Service - Outlook, Why I talk to warlords

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda negotiates with warlords for the release of child soldiers

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda helps persuade military commanders and warlords to release the child soldiers within their ranks and from prisons

Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda’s office is a war zone, she goes to meet warlords and military commanders to persuade them to release the children in their ranks and in their prisons. It’s not always just the military leaders who need convincing, she tells Jo Fidgen that sometimes the children are too afraid to leave. So Priscillia often shares her own story of growing up as a Congolese Iranian during the violence of the Iran-Iraq war.

Priscillia is a human rights lawyer and the co-founder of the Collective for Black Iranians, a not-for-profit organisation with the mission to represent Black and Afro-Iranians' voices within the Iranian diaspora.

Picture: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda at work
Credit: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Outlook

Why I talk to warlords

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

About BBC World Service