Anju is a lawyer from India with prior experience working on issues relating to access to justice from an intersectional perspective. She studied law and worked with various stakeholders before pursuing a Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation at the Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice.
Her current research at the University of Deusto focuses on intersectional climate justice. She is interested in looking at the gaps in the current climate change policies and their implementation, specifically concerning the gendered effects of climate change on women in regions affected by conflict (with a focus on extractivist violence). Ultimately, she hopes to find a more intersectional approach within international climate change governance to address this issue. Towards this, she is interested in looking at the gendered effects of climate change policies in regions in India, Kenya, and Brazil. She also contributes to the RE-WIRING project on transformational gender equality. She is involved in the work project on power hegemonies in times of crises, where she looks at aspects relating to the climate crisis.
During her research stay with the GEOFORMATIONS team, she is interested in understanding the structures and functioning of civil society organisations working on climate change in the East African context, and specifically in Kenya. In the process, she would also like to focus on the implementation of the laws and policies regarding climate change governance and how they fare against Kenya’s NDC under the Paris Agreement.