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Women's Rights and Transitional Justice Expert; International and Domestic Criminal Lawyer
Amrita Kapur is serving in her personal capacity as a Commissioner on the Black Women's Blueprint Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Professionally, Amrita specializes in the gender dimensions of criminal justice and broader legal initiatives within transitional justice contexts at the International Center for Transitional Justice, as a Senior Associate. Prior to joining ICTJ, Amrita was a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Previously, she was the international legal adviser for the Women’s Justice Unit (WJU) with the Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP) in Timor-Leste, and managed field research in Mozambique and Tanzania on women’s access to justice, after practising both domestic criminal law in Australian courts as a legal aid criminal defense lawyer and prosecution officer, working with the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, and the Criminal Justice Program at ICTJ.
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