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Kavita is an international human rights lawyer and activist from Fiji specialising in feminist climate justice for grassroots women in all their diversity in Asia and the Pacific. Kavita is recognised as a leading voice on feminist climate demands, decolonial & feminist global green new deal and feminist participatory action research. With over 15 years of experience, Kavita has worked at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (Thailand) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Fiji). In Australia, Kavita was most recently a Climate Justice Analyst at The Sunrise Project. She is also a researcher-writer at Edith Cowan University engaged on feminist participatory action research in Kiribati, Fiji and the Mekong. Kavita has volunteered with Balmain for Refugees and Oxfam Australia. She is a Council Member of Progressive International.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Researcher, Edith Cowan University