Ms Harsha Gihwala

LLB University of Cape Town

Harsha is a Research Officer at the Gender, Health and Justice Research Unit (UCT). Her areas of interest include: access to justice for victims of sexual and gender-based violence; crimino-legal research; and the development of law and policy that best serves those who have experienced incidences of violence against women. Before joining the GHJRU (UCT), she completed her practical vocational training at the Women’s Legal Centre, a feminist public interest legal centre.

Harsha holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town, and is currently completing an LLM specialising in Criminology, Law and Society, with a dissertation focusing on sentencing in South African rape cases.