Marilisa Lorusso is a regular contributor to Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa, an Italian think tank and online magazine with approximately 5,000 daily views.
She has been deployed by the Italian Foreign Ministry as an expert for post-war civilian monitoring missions in Georgia. Additionally, she has served in a non-diplomatic capacity at the Geneva International Discussions on the Georgian peace settlement while based at the European Union Council in Brussels.
Addiction/drugs/drug policy
Caste discrimination or persecution
Child soldiers
Climate-related issues
Coercive population control
Deportees/criminal deportees
Disability
Ethnic discrimination or persecution
Ex-combatant reintegration
Female genital mutilation/circumcision/FGC
Forced conscription
Forced marriage
Gang-related violence/non-state actors
Gender-based violence/domestic violence
Healthcare access/health systems capacity
HIV/AIDS
Journalist persecution
Land tenure disputes
LGBTQ
Likelihood of destitution or homelessness
Mental illness
Military/police service
Political persecution
Prison conditions
Religious discrimination or persecution
Government/state actor persecution
Risk of retaliation
Safe internal relocation
Sexual abuse/assault
Sufficiency of protection
Torture
Trafficking
Tribal discrimination or persecution
Violence against children/child abuse
Dozens of reports submitted to Immigration Judges in UK and U.S. for the following sectors: violation of human rights, right to association; discrimination against minority members (ethnic, religious); individuals subjected to inhumane treatment in the military, conscientious objectors, conscripts at risk of war crimes and crimes against humanity; victims of domestic violence, forced marriages; members of the LGBTQ+ community; journalists and activists subjected to persecution and repression; victims of criminal clans or organized crime networks; political persecution and violence during demonstrations and or in custody; victims of violence who do not have access to remedies; IDPs, refugees.
Marilisa Lorusso’s publications are available on https://marilisalorusso.blogspot.com/