Adriana Masgras

Adriana Masgras is a coordinator in the Disability Rights Division at Human Rights Watch.

She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Human Rights at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, specializing in Human Rights of Refugees, Gender and Human Rights, Business and Human Rights, and International Criminal Law.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Padua and has previously worked for the South Australian Department for Child Protection, mostly case managing children and young people in long-term alternative care, and triaging notifications of child abuse and neglect.

Adriana is passionate about the rights of children, persons with disabilities and migrants, and has a keen interest in investigative work.

She speaks English, Italian and Romanian and is learning French and German.