Tashwill Esterhuizen Lawyer, LGBTI and Sex Workers Rights Programme, Southern African Litigation Centre

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Tashwill Esterhuizen is a South African lawyer and head of the LGBTI and Sex workers Rights Programme at the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC).  Esterhuizen has extensive experience in public interest and human rights litigation and advocacy in ten Southern Africa countries.  Prior to SALC, he worked as a litigation attorney at the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa, where he assisted communities and social movements on protection of their socio-economic rights.  Previously, Esterhuizen advised the Office of the Provincial Police Commissioner in Cape Town on police actions and human rights.  He received his LL.B. from the University of Cape Town.