Michela Gaffuri Riva comes from Italy and has a strong interest in working in the field of promotion and protection of human rights.
She studied Political Science and International Relations at the University of Padova and Planning and Management of Social Policies and Services at the University of Milan. She has been volunteering for many years for some non-profit organisations working on children rights, social inclusion of migrant population and enhancement of a multicultural society.She is also passionate about communication and journalism and she was an intern in an Italian press agency.
Michela wrote a Master’s Degree thesis on the subject of extraordinary renditions and the affirmation of an individual and collective right to truth, dealing with many issues related to arbitrary detention and detainees’ rights from a legal and a social point of view. She is currently working on the Prisoner’s Rights Project and collaborating with the Supporting Gender Equality in Rural Cameroon Project. She will be interning with Human Is Right ‘till June 2014.