Sohini Mehta joined the Human Rights Law Centre in 2023. She works in solidarity with communities affected by mining in Bougainville and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and organisations.
Prior to joining the Human Rights Law Centre, Sohini was a solicitor at leading UK human rights firm Bhatt Murphy, where she represented clients in coronial inquests and civil actions against the police and other state agencies. In particular, Sohini litigated to challenge systemic discrimination in the disproportionate use of police powers on Black people and in failures to investigate gender-based and racialised violence.
At Bhatt Murphy, Sohini also led a project to foster accountability for domestic homicides preceded by police contact, which contributed to the Domestic Abuse Commissioner establishing a national mechanism to learn from previous reviews into domestic homicides.
Previously, at the Centre for Women’s Justice, Sohini assisted survivors of child sexual exploitation and gender-based violence to bring legal challenges against criminal justice agencies.
Prior to that, Sohini received a scholarship to train at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights in Berlin, where she worked on strategic complaints in the European Court of Human Rights challenging pushbacks at EU borders.
Sohini holds a degree in Anthropology and Law from the London School of Economics.