Emergency Response Rooms – Between Mutual Aid and International Humanitarian Aid | bpb.de

Radwa Khaled Ibrahim is a consultant on critical aid at the aid and human rights organisation “medico international”, as well as a research fellow and lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt; her research focuses on the Global South, with particular attention to gender relations. Amid increasingly serious global upheavals, Radwa comments on current events through critical commentary and/or analysis on her page on the medico blog or in print and audio media. Her most recent contributions have focused primarily on the situation in Gaza, the protests in Kenya, and the political implications of the de facto abolition of USAID and the shifts in German foreign and development policy.

Sara Abbas is a researcher of gender, the state, and social movements, with a focus on Sudan. Since April 2023, she has focused on supporting feminist groups and mutual aid networks to resource themselves in their fight against the war and for the survival of their communities. Her writing on Sudan over the past years includes a contribution to "Diversity on Common Ground: Ten Perspectives on Modern Feminism", and the essay "The Weight of Feelings: Khartoum's Revolutionary Moment". Sara is a fellow of Decolonize Now! co-working on a project documenting feminist narrative against the war, and how they generate, sustain, and renew themselves in the face of catastrophic, orchestrated violence.

Samah Khalaf Allah is a Sudanese human rights activist who conducts research and carries out work on gender justice and sexual and reproductive health. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Community Health Management from Ahfad University for Women (2013) in Omdurman, Sudan, and a Master’s degree in Gender, Development and Peace from the Regional Institute of Gender, Diversity, Peace and Rights (2020) in Omdurman, Sudan. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Bayreuth.

Ruham Hawash is an activist and community organiser within social movements in Palestine, Syria and beyond. Hawash’s educational background includes a BSc in Economics, an MSc in Finance and an MA in Peace and Security. Since August 2025, Hawash has been working in the International Crimes and Legal Accountability programme at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), where she is committed to advancing human rights principles and contributing to transitional justice in and for Syria.

Dr. Nerges Azizi completed her PhD in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. In her research, she analyses the current conjuncture of migrants' rights struggles by focusing on the role of legal interventions against pushbacks in the Mediterranean. She is a legal advisor in the International Crimes and Accountability program at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and serves as Executive Director of the Afghanistan Research Hub at Humboldt University Berlin. Previously, she worked as a legal advisor with the Border Justice program at ECCHR, as a Carlo Schmid Fellow at the Ethics Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, and as a lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin and Philipps-Universität Marburg, among others.

Luna Ali studied Cultural Studies and Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim, as well as Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She has worked as a freelance performer and writer at theatres in Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Hanover and Berlin. In 2024, her debut novel *Da waren Tage* was published by S. Fischer Verlag; it explores memories of the Syrian Revolution. She has been involved with Watch the Med — Alarmphone and currently works for Sea-Watch.