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Marilisa Lorusso

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.

Name
Marilisa Lorusso
Occupation
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN EXPERT – Armenia, Georgia, Russian Federation
Expertise

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

Experience

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.

Publications

Marilisa Lorusso’s publications are available on https://marilisalorusso.blogspot.com/

Languages
Russian
Ethnic groups expertise
Minorities in the former U.S.S.R.
Fees
[Private to EIN members]
Phone
[Private to EIN members]
Address
[Private to EIN members]