Why I talk to warlords
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda helps persuade warlords and military commanders to release child soldiers within their ranks and from prisons
Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda鈥檚 office is a war zone, she goes to meet warlords and military commanders to persuade them to release the children in their ranks and from prisons. And it鈥檚 not always just the military leaders who need convincing, sometimes the children are too afraid to leave, so she 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.
Presenter: Jo Fidgen
Producer: Jo Impey
Picture: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda at work
Credit: Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda
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