Master of Arts (MA) · Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR)
Lidia Minich is a PhD Candidate in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. She is passionate about peace-making and international humanitarian law, with her current research focusing on the effects of right-wing populist public discourse on European asylum policies and gender equality.
Sudan’s Invisible Humanitarian Crisis: Forced Displacement, Famine, and the Gendered Cost of Civil War Introduction This brief examines forced migration in sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of Sudan’s civil war. Since April 2023, Sudan has produced what the United Nations calls the world’s most…
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland at the end of 2025, Somalia’s territorial integrity, and decades of international consensus. This unilateral move reframes Somaliland’s three-decade independence as legitimate dissolution rather than illegal secession. The brief argues that state recognition is …
Question: Why won’t the international community call the Taliban’s systematic oppression of women gender apartheid? Argument: The Taliban’s regime meets every condition of apartheid (systematic oppression, intent to dominate, state-enforced coercion) except it targets gender. This legal gap has b…
